Milind Kelkar

About Milind Kelkar

Creating AI-powered insights, automation, and decision support platformsAI Scientist with over 25 years of cross-disciplinary experience delivering enterprise-scale innovation, product platforms, and decision intelligence solutions. I bring a rare blend of deep domain maturity, platform thinking, and leadership maturity, sharpened through both corporate and entrepreneurial journeys.I have conceived and led the development of self-service AI platforms that embed insight, automation, and decision support across marketing, customer experience, document intelligence, and regulatory compliance, now in use across 30+ global clients. My work reflects long-term product thinking, blending AI/ML, NLP, and LLMs with scalable modern data stacks (FastAPI, Postgres, React, Cloud) to drive adoption-ready business transformation.Previously, I held executive roles at Genpact, WNS, HSBC, and Kantar, where I built large, high-performing data science teams, incubated IP-led products, and advised Fortune 500 firms on applied analytics. My career is anchored in the ability to translate advanced AI into business value, and to lead through influence across technology, product, and strategy.Technical Expertise• AI Systems & Platforms: Designed and scaled self-service AI platforms across verticals• Machine Learning & LLM Applications: Expert in supervised and unsupervised learning, market mix models, and real-world applications of LLMs.• Modern AI Stack: Hands-on with cloud-native orchestration and automation layers.• Data & Analytics: End-to-end experience across SQL/Postgres, BigQuery, Superset, Tableau, delivering real-time dashboards, embedded decision support, and predictive analytics.• Document AI & OCR: Built production-grade document intelligence pipelines for compliance and support automation.Outside work, I find equal joy in discovering nature and knowledge: trekking in the South Indian hills, birdwatching, joining forest censuses, and unearthing rare finds in second-hand bookstores. A passionate home chef, I take experimental liberty in the kitchen with my kids as the regular (and occasionally reluctant) audience.

Experience

1. Chief Ai Scientist

   Unpickle Analytic Solutions

   Aug 2015 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Delivered actionable insights, automation, and decision support across key domains via AI-Powered Offerings (via CxTA Platform):• Market Research: Open-end coding, qualitative content analysis, and survey data analytics• Sales & Marketing: Revenue intelligence, assortment optimization, and market mix modeling• Tax & Legal: GST reconciliation, custom risk assessment, and compliance management• AI Services: Custom APIs for analytics, intelligent document processing, and Q&A chatbot development

Education

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Metallurgy

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  FPM, Marketing

Skills

• Analysis
• Predictive Analytics
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Management
• Customer Analysis
• Market Research
• Marketing Analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Market Intelligence
• Logistic Regression
• Team Management
• Data Mining
• Marketing Research
• Sas
• Business Analysis
• Predictive Modeling
• Segmentation
• Research
• Business Analytics
• Customer Insight
• Competitive Intelligence
• Analytics
• Statistical Modeling
• Analytical Skills
• Crm
• Database Marketing
• Statistics