Summary
Saran Sankar is an Associate Software Engineer with eight years of experience blending data science, cloud engineering, and full-stack development, grounded in a Master’s in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and an MITx MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science. He has shipped production features for a video-streaming social platform at Ripple, built real-time financial analytics tooling as a founder, and improved clinical trial monitoring with interactive dashboards and KPIs using SQL, Python, and Tableau. Comfortable across AWS, PostgreSQL, Pandas, and React, he focuses on automating backend processes and improving data quality to accelerate decision-making. Saran’s portfolio shows a practical bent toward deployable AI and analytics solutions rather than pure research, and he routinely combines visualization (Plotly Dash/Streamlit) with robust ETL to make insights accessible. Based in Kerala, India, he maintains a commitment to continuous learning with certifications in machine learning and deep learning and a history of internships that translate academic rigor into tangible product improvements. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers shipping end-to-end systems that turn messy data into actionable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Micromasters, Statistics and Data Science, Micromasters, Statistics and Data Science at MITx on edX
CBSE Senior School Certificate, Computer Science, CBSE Senior School Certificate, Computer Science at Vijayagiri Public School - India
Data Analytics and Machine learning Engineer, Data Analytics and Machine learning Engineer at ElevateMe
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, French