Summary
Krishna Rekapalli is a Senior Data Scientist at IBM’s watsonx.ai with a decade of experience translating mathematical rigor into production-grade AI and geo-spatial solutions. With a Masters in Operations Research from UT Austin and a background in chemical and industrial engineering, he blends optimization and deep learning expertise to solve real-world problems across weather, EIS, and advisory domains. He is a full-stack data scientist fluent in Python, TensorFlow/Keras, scikit-learn and SQL, and focuses on model ops to ensure analytics become continuously valuable products. Krishna partners closely with product leaders to design data-driven applications, preferring principled, model-centric approaches over ad hoc analysis. Unconventional career moves—from chemical engineering to geo-spatial ML—underscore his willingness to take the less-traveled road to deliver impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Masters, Operations Research, Masters, Operations Research at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Hindi, Telugu