Summary
Pallavi Sahoo is a data science leader and consultant with over 16 years in analytics and nine years of hands-on delivery experience, currently directing Step8up Academy. She has led data-driven CRM and marketing transformations for clients across retail, finance, and public sector, translating complex models into clear stories for non-technical stakeholders. Skilled in SQL, Python, PySpark, AWS and GCP, with SAS certification and R proficiency, she builds production-ready solutions that improve campaign ROI and fraud detection. Her background spans both client-facing consulting and in-house product work (e.g., fraud predictive systems at Visa and customer lifetime models at Acxiom), giving her rare fluency in strategy, execution and stakeholder alignment. Based in the Borough of Runnymede, she combines Six Sigma rigor with a passion for mentoring teams and practical deployment of ML in business contexts.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Maths, B.Sc., Maths at Ahmednagar College
Data Science, Data Science at General Assembly
Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma at Cybersecurity
MCA, Computer Science, MCA, Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University