Summary
Karthick Vel Kathirvel is a data scientist and analytics consultant with nine years of experience applying predictive modeling, optimization, and ML to drive measurable business impact. He has delivered multimillion-dollar outcomes—building recommendation and pricing engines that generated $35M+ and $2.1M lifts respectively, and operational models that saved $400K annually by reducing order cancellations. Comfortable from ETL to deployment, he has built PySpark pipelines processing 20M+ records/sec, productionized ARIMAX and MLOps CI/CD workflows, and exposed optimization engines as REST APIs at scale. His work spans supply-chain emissions reduction and ESG reporting to conversational RAG-based process-mining assistants, showing a blend of pragmatic engineering and sustainability focus. A Texas McCombs Business Analytics MS graduate with an IIT background, he mentors aspiring data scientists and maintains an inquisitive GitHub presence. Notably, he translates complex optimization and forecasting research into automated tools that repeatedly unlock new revenue and efficiency levers.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics, 3.8 / 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics, 3.8 / 4.0 at Texas McCombs School of Business
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Minor in Computer Science Engineering, 8.04 / 10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Minor in Computer Science Engineering, 8.04 / 10 at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
High School, High School at Maharishi International Residential School