Summary
Arun Shankar is an Associate Manager in Product Development with 10 years of experience applying data analytics, BI and process automation to retail and financial services. He holds an MS in Business Analytics from UConn and brings hands-on expertise in SAS, SQL, Tableau, Python and R alongside AWS and SAS certifications. At Canadian Tire he progressed from business analyst to manager, translating analytics and ETL pipelines into product development outcomes. Earlier roles at hMetrix and Cognizant involved automating trade lifecycles, building reporting frameworks and improving operational workflows—skills that combine technical rigor with process optimization. Comfortable with forecasting, recommendation systems and text mining, he pairs statistical methods with practical project management tools to drive measurable business impact. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Arun blends a biotech engineering background with analytics fluency, which gives him an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective on data-driven product problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Business Analytics and Project Management, 3.86, Master of Science (MS), Business Analytics and Project Management, 3.86 at The University of Connecticut School of Business
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Biotechnology and BioInformatics, 8.0/10.0, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Biotechnology and BioInformatics, 8.0/10.0 at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, French