Barun Paudel
Data Governance & Strategy Manager
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBarun Paudel is a data governance and strategy leader with over a decade of experience turning complex datasets into actionable insights across higher education, government, and enterprise suppliers. Currently a Data Governance & Strategy Manager and PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, he blends hands-on SQL, Python, and visualization expertise with a talent for translating technical findings to non-technical stakeholders. He has driven procurement analytics on 370K+ transactions and $800M+ spend, built fraud-detection tooling that saved six-figure sums, and upgraded reporting from descriptive to predictive analytics. Comfortable liaising between business and engineering, he optimizes data pipelines, tunes heavy SQL workloads, and designs intuitive KPI dashboards used by budget, audit, and procurement teams. His background ranges from leading data services teams processing 100GB+ daily to building open-data platforms for disaster management, showing both operational rigor and public-good impact. Quietly academic and applied, he pairs executive-level strategy with reproducible, production-focused analytics.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS Data Analytics at Virginia TechDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Executive Business Research Specializing in AI Adoption Data Analytics and Data Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Executive Business Research Specializing in AI Adoption Data Analytics and Data Management at Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of BusinessBachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering at SLIITHigh School Science and Technology, High School Science and Technology at St. Xavier's College, Maitighar
nepali, english, hindi, Sinhala
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Github contributions (2)
riskinfo-lk/riskinfo_lk
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 32 pushes, 3 issues in 3 months
BarunPaudel/SLIIT
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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