Summary
Akshay Nimbalkar is a Senior Data Scientist based in Dubai with seven years of hands-on experience turning complex datasets into operational impact across transit, retail, telecom and fintech. He has built production ML systems and BI solutions—ranging from ETL pipelines and real-time Power BI dashboards to a RAG-powered OCC assistant that reportedly improved operations efficiency by 80%. His work blends practical engineering (Python, APIs, AWS, Flask) with applied analytics—optimizing metro operations, improving payment success rates, and lifting sales through media-mix modelling. Akshay also brings a founder’s mindset from an early ecommerce startup and experience building OCR and automation tooling as a Java engineer, which helps him bridge product, data and engineering teams. He mentors and leads small teams, evangelizing data quality and dashboard best practices to ensure insights are adopted. Curious about AI engineering broadly, he pairs experimentation with measurable business KPIs to drive adoption in production.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, data Science, Master's degree, data Science at Aegis School of Business, Data Science & Telecommunication
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University