Rishi Baijal
Senior Data Scientist
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Baijal is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of cross-functional experience blending analytics, product insight and field leadership, currently driving data initiatives at PepsiCo out of New Delhi. He pairs an IIM Indore MBA and technical grounding from IIIT Delhi and C-DAC to translate consumer and operational data into strategic decisions—experience rooted in earlier roles at Bank of America, Philips and Johnson & Johnson where he led market research, new product strategy and zone-level P&L management. A pragmatic engineer as well, he has contributed to the open-source NILMTK project by building robust Python data conversion pipelines for energy datasets, demonstrating comfort with backend data engineering and metadata handling. Known for combining quantitative rigor with on-the-ground commercial instincts, he excels at turning complex datasets into actionable business outcomes and scaling solutions across stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indian Institute of Management, IndoreICSE, 95.14% (Rank 1, Batch Size 117), ICSE, 95.14% (Rank 1, Batch Size 117) at St. Peter's School, MumbaiStudent Exchange Programme, Student Exchange Programme at Ecole supérieure de Commerce de Clermont-FerrandISC, 96% (Rank 1, Batch Size 94), ISC, 96% (Rank 1, Batch Size 94) at The Cathedral and John Connon SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Data Processing, 8.26/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Data Processing, 8.26/10 at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, DelhiBig Data Analytics, 86%, Big Data Analytics, 86% at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Github Skills (12)
file-handling10
file-processing10
pandas10
data-conversion10
file-access10
python10
fileio10
data-engineering10
data-pipelines9
data-pipeline9
hdf9
algorithms6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nilmtk/nilmtk
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit (nilmtk)
Role in this project:
Data Engineer & Backend Developer
Data Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily contributed to adding and improving a data conversion pipeline within the nilmtk repository. They developed Python scripts to convert data from the AMPds dataset, implementing functionality to read and process CSV files. They added the ability to handle metadata and integrated it into the data conversion process, addressing several issues and making various improvements to the converter's functionality.
forecastingpythonnilm-algorithmsnilmelectrical-engineering
RishiBaijal/DHCS_project
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
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