Summary
Vighnesh Kumar is an analytics engineer in Melbourne with nine years of experience spanning ML, data engineering, and analytics at scale. He currently serves at Open Universities Australia, building scalable analytics platforms to unlock actionable insights for education. While at BANXA, he spearheaded a machine learning model to forecast weekly pricing spreads, automated pricing data extraction, and collaborated on AWS Redshift datasets powering company-wide analysis and reporting, plus fraud analytics initiatives. His career blends academic research in NLP/MT and practical data science, with roles at Deloitte, QCRI, IIIT Hyderabad, and Charles University, contributing to both theoretical and production-oriented projects. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne and has studied and worked across India, Prague, Qatar, and Australia, bringing a global perspective to data-driven decision making.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (Honours), Computer Science and Engineering, 7.58/10, Bachelor of Technology (Honours), Computer Science and Engineering, 7.58/10 at IIIT Hyderabad
The University of Melbourne
High School, Science, Percentage: 95.6%, High School, Science, Percentage: 95.6% at DPS - Modern Indian School
English, French, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Sanskrit