Summary
Karthik Shivkumar is a Senior Data Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience turning messy data into clear, decision-ready stories and production systems. He has led pricing, portfolio optimization and growth initiatives at Opendoor and now applies those skills at Lime, combining statistical rigor with pragmatic engineering to scale models in production. Comfortable across the stack, he builds pipelines with tools like dbt and Airflow, crafts visuals in Tableau/ggplot/D3, and runs rigorous A/B tests and ML models to inform leadership decisions. His background spans fraud risk at AWS to marketing attribution at Verizon Media, giving him a rare mix of real-time risk, marketing analytics, and portfolio optimization expertise. Active on GitHub and with a masters in Data Analytics Engineering, he often surfaces non-obvious signals through visualization to illuminate “invisible” drivers behind business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master’s Degree Data Analytics Engineering, Master’s Degree Data Analytics Engineering at George Mason University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, German