Kishore Surana

About Kishore Surana

Seasoned Data Science manager with deep expertise in Software Engineering, machine learning and advanced analytics. Experienced in driving product and business growth across multiple product areas. Seasoned leader in growing data science teams with a strong focus on metrics, experimentation, and story-telling.Over 10 years of experience as a Lead/IC Software Engineer developing web services, front-end, data bases and data warehousing experience. Passionate in growing strong engineering teams with customer focus and engineering excellence.

Experience

1. Principal Data Scientist Manager - Copilot Ai & Growth

   Microsoft

   Jun 2018 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leading stellar team of scientists that focus on delighting and modernizing our Microsoft 365 Subscription business. Our goal is getting customers into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, convert them into subscribers, onboard and engage with them to get maximum retention.Our passion is to solve complex business problems with simplicity & actionability with immense focus on building ML & AI products. Our belief is that with the right data, we can answer most business questions, delight customers and make money. We also believe with data, we can even ask the right questions, the ones which we haven’t thought of.My pass technical experiences include:• Experimental Design : Hypothesis formation, asking precise question and developing data ingestion platforms• Data extraction and mining : Fetching data through sensors, web, novel technologies and mining patterns• Data grooming: Developing quality control metrics, preprocessing, standardization and normalization of data • Statistical modeling: Developing statistical algorithms, performing statistical test and inferences • Machine Learning: Applying classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction procedures for prediction and inference• Data visualization & Reporting: Developing automated tools/pipelines, aesthetic visualization of inferences

Education

• Auburn University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2002 — 2004

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Big Data
• Software Design Patterns
• Windows Azure
• Wcf Services
• Web Services
• Etl
• Informatica
• Text Analytics
• Software Design
• Windows Services
• Visual Studio
• C#
• .net
• Data Warehousing
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Agile Methodologies
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• Python
• Machine Learning