Kaushik Shakkari
Senior Applied Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Shakkari is a Senior Applied Data Scientist with nine years of experience building production-grade NLP and ML systems that bridge academic rigor and real-world business impact. Currently leading Applied AI at AstrumU and XOi, he designed scalable document understanding, knowledge graph, and AI-agent systems that reduced onboarding from days to seconds and enriched learner profiles 8x. He has driven revenue-generating search and QA products (SQUARE) at Cognistx and delivered cost-saving automation and vulnerability-reduction solutions at Symantec and other enterprises. Kaushik combines hands-on engineering—ML pipelines, DVC/MLflow-driven evaluation, Docker/AWS deployments—with product strategy and team building, growing teams and shortening iteration cycles. A contributing author for CMU’s Computational Data Science course and an active mentor, he deliberately closes the gap between research and applied engineering. Less obvious: his cross-domain work from browsing behavioral science to health informatics has given him a multidisciplinary lens that surfaces novel, auditable solutions for ambiguous data problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science Specialization in Data Science, Master's degree Computer Science Specialization in Data Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
English, Hindi, Telugu, TamilGithub contributions (5)
kaushikData/proFIT.AI
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
kaushikData/HADOOP_CLUSTER
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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