Summary
Nirupama Venkataraman is an analytics leader and mentor with nine years of experience turning complex data into strategic decisions across financial services, e-commerce, and education. With an MBA from UIUC and an engineering background, she blends technical fluency in SQL, Snowflake, Python, R, and visualization tools with rigorous methods like segmentation, NLP, and A/B testing to deliver descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive insights. She has led advanced analytics teams at Fidelity and supported operational analytics at Amazon, while consulting for Coursera, Udacity and Springboard to shape data-driven learning products. A published researcher and active blogger, she shares practical data science learnings and sample projects on GitHub, and now mentors the next generation through Udacity and the Executive Women’s Forum. Colleagues value her for translating analytics into clear business outcomes and for fostering data literacy across teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, 3.77, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, 3.77 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.E., Electronics, First Class with Distinction, B.E., Electronics, First Class with Distinction at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil