Ankur G.

About Ankur G.

Senior machine learning and data engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in leading teams at big companies and startups to drive real business value through innovation and data-driven decision support. Result-oriented Data Science product manager with deep technology background and exceptional ability to create products that solve complex business problems and have resulted in generating millions of dollars in revenue. An energizing, culture-focused coach and mentor. Committed to providing employees clear vision, meaningful feedback and motivating them to achieve unprecedented results. Have developed team members who, are great data scientists and data engineers. Data strategist with a proven track record of strategizing, designing, and implementing advanced analytics technology framework to deliver enterprise Data Science vision and mission. Excellent ability to influence senior leaders with actionable insights by using strong communication and story-telling skills.Technology Skills Designing and developing scalable machine learning infrastructure Designing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM finetuning using AWS Bedrock, Jumpstart and Sagemaker Designing, building and deploying LLM based models, classification models, regression models, hypothesis testing, A/B testing, optimization models using Python, Spark, SAS and libraries such as Pandas, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras etc Sourcing data from various sources such as SalesForce (CRM), Netsuite (ERP), Hubspot, Hightouch (CDP), SAS Datasets, Flat files etc Architecting and deploying complex data engineering pipelines using Fivetran, Airflow, DBT Architecting Datalake and CDW on S3, Redshift, BigQuery and SnowFlake Architecting MLOps using MLFlow, Sagemaker, VertexAI Visual Analytics using Qlik, Tableau, Looker, Quicksight

Experience

1. Director of Data Analytics and Architecture

   Blocpower

   Sep 2021 — Present

   I lead data the machine learning and data engineering teams at the company. Primary job responsibilities include: Architect, implement, and steward end-to-end production level data and machine learning infrastructure on AWS Grow, manage and lead a team of Data and Applied Scientists Identify and evaluate Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics tools that may be appropriate to integrate as systems evolve Drive data literacy and data-driven decision making across functionsFew achievements of my team include:• Designed and architected the data and ML backend for flagship SaaS Products (BlocMaps and Instant Building Report) – Blocmaps is one of the primary revenue generators and has several B2B and B2G customers• Architected the Datalake on AWS S3 the Corporate DataWarehouse on Redshift• Architected Data Pipelines using Fivetran, DBT, and PySpark on AWS Glue• Architected MLOps infrastructure and devops using MLFlow and Sagemaker Inference Pipeline• Developed Digital Twins for 125 Million Buildings in partnership with national labs• Architected RAG pipeline and knowledgebase on AWS Bedrock• Led the SOC2 compliance

Education

• Delhi College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

• Yale University

  Master's degree, Energy Analytics

Skills

• Carbon Footprinting
• C
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Life Cycle Assessment Software Simapro
• Sustainable Development
• Sas Programming
• Remote Sensing
• Energy Efficiency
• Sustainability Reporting
• Renewable Energy
• Data Analysis
• Microsoft Excel
• Energy Audits
• Simapro
• Energy Modeling – Homer, Markal
• Arcgis
• Statistical Packages
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Analysis
• Gis
• Environmental Policy
• Statistical Packages Minitab, R
• Gis and Remote Sensing Softwares Arcgis and Envi
• Econometrics
• Environmental Management Systems
• Envi
• Web Development Applications Drupal and Word Press
• Programming Languages C, C++;
• Managing Database
• R
• Energy
• Wordpress