Niharika Balachandra
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiharika Balachandra is a Staff Data Scientist based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building production ML and GenAI solutions across finance, retail, and adtech. She has led cross-functional teams to productize research—driving features like a Customer Journey Intelligence Suite and AI-powered mortgage models using Snowflake, AWS SageMaker/Bedrock, and scalable data foundations. Her work blends consumer behavior modeling, NLP and time-series forecasting to unlock growth and optimize ad spend for platforms processing millions of daily queries. She’s known for turning POCs into shipped products through rigorous A/B testing and stakeholder-driven roadmapping. Early experience spanning embedded systems to instructional technology gives her a practical, systems-oriented lens on data problems. Colleagues describe her as a builder who pairs deep technical craft with a knack for translating analytics into measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Ramaiah Institute Of TechnologyMaster’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois ChicagoHigh School, High School at Sophia High School, BangaloreData Science Fellow Data Science and Analysis, Data Science Fellow Data Science and Analysis at Springboard
English, Hindi, Kannada, FrenchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
niharikabalachandra/Language-Detection-MultinomialLogisticRegression
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
niharikabalachandra/PropensityToConvert
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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