Ansh Puthran

Data Analyst and Scout @Phoenix Rising Football Club

Phoenix, AZ, US

Leading the club\'s data-driven talent identification for the South American market by architecting a unified prospect database in PostgreSQL, integrating event data (StatsBomb, Opta, Sportradar) and scouting data (Wyscout) with custom Python parsers, centralizing 5+ disparate data sources to provide the first-ever unified player rating for the scouting department.• Influencing transfer strategy by authoring in-depth scouting reports that synthesize quantitative model outputs with qualitative video analysis, identifying 5+ high-priority targets for the upcoming transfer window.• Leveraging computer vision (OpenCV) on match footage to extract spatio-temporal features, modeling player positioning, passing networks, and defensive structures, providing crucial tactical context for player performance and helping to validate scouting reports.• Engineering a production data ingestion pipeline on AWS (S3, Lambda), automating data collection to reduce manual entry by 20+ hours weekly and enabling 25% broader talent coverage.

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science