Summary
Kousalya Dwarapudi is a Product Analyst with eight years of experience bridging software development and business analysis, currently driving product efforts at Optum while completing a Master's in Management Information Systems at UIC. She combines a strong engineering foundation from NIT Warangal and two years of hands-on software development with data-focused skills honed through a Udacity Data Analyst nanodegree and practical ETL, dashboarding, and NLP work. Her background includes designing BI platforms, building web application frameworks, and defining unsupervised learning components using NLTK, which gives her a rare mix of technical depth and client-facing product instincts. She excels at translating business requirements into actionable technical specs, and is known for quickly onboarding new systems and producing clear, sales-facing analytics and visualizations. Colleagues note her effective communication and facilitation skills—she often leads requirement discovery and risk analysis phases to keep projects aligned and delivery-focused.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Nanodegree, Data Analyst, Nanodegree, Data Analyst at Udacity
Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems, Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Liautaud Graduate School of Business
High School, Science, High School, Science at DPS Modern Indian School, Doha Qatar
Telugu, Hindi, English