Summary
Roshan Thaikkat is a Senior Data Science Manager in Seattle with 8 years of experience designing and shipping production ML systems across entertainment, advertising, HVAC, and electric utilities. He has led dynamic pricing and forecasting initiatives for Prime Video and built time-to-event and control-optimization pipelines for industrial asset management, translating operations research training into robust, scalable solutions. At Amazon and Microsoft he focused on ads tech and AI-driven productization, combining research-grade modeling with engineering rigor to drive measurable business impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges domain expertise and production readiness, often surfacing non-obvious features from operational telemetry to boost model value.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
Master's, Operations Research, Master's, Operations Research at University of Massachusetts Amherst