Summary
Neeraj Kumar is a senior data scientist with 10 years of experience building ML and AI solutions across industrial, media, and enterprise domains, now focused on oil & gas and marine analytics at Caterpillar. He holds a Master’s in Data Science from West Virginia University and blends deep statistical rigor (MCMC, PCA, ANOVA) with practical engineering—productionizing models using R, Python, Spark, NoSQL, and cloud tooling. Past roles range from lead data scientist to trainer and mentor, demonstrating both hands-on model development and the ability to translate business problems into scalable data products. Neeraj is particularly strong at extracting and integrating heterogeneous data sources for high-performance analytics and has a knack for embedding visualization (Shiny, JS animations) into models to drive adoption. Outside work he cooks up AI/ML experiments and credits a playful pup for keeping creativity grounded.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at West Virginia University
Executive Programme in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Business Analytics and Business Analytic and Data Science, Executive Programme in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Business Analytics and Business Analytic and Data Science at Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University