Saurav Shekhar
Sr. Manager Marketing Analytics at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSaurav Shekhar is a seasoned analytics leader with nine years of experience building and scaling data science teams and solutions across retail, banking, and consumer brands, and he currently leads marketing analytics at AWS. He combines deep hands-on expertise in machine learning (from penalized regression and GAMs to ensemble methods, SVMs, and neural nets) with practical production skills in R, Python, SQL and big-data tools like Hive and Pig. Saurav has partnered with analytics organizations at Fortune 500 firms including Walmart, Comcast, Microsoft and TUI to deliver measurable business impact in marketing, retail and web analytics. He maintains an active practitioner profile—top 5% finishes in multiple Kaggle competitions and authoring the RED R package for exploratory data analysis—signaling both applied skill and community contribution. A current MS candidate in Business Analytics at UConn (3.92 GPA), he pairs rigorous academic training with a track record of client-facing project delivery and optimization work. Known for quick learning, strong problem-solving, and high emotional intelligence, he often bridges the gap between analytics teams and business stakeholders to turn models into decisions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Business Analytics and Project Managment, 3.92, Master of Science (MS), Business Analytics and Project Managment, 3.92 at University of ConnecticutBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Birla Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (9)
statistics6
cosine-similarity6
rename6
melt6
dplyr6
validation6
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database6
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Github contributions (5)
saushe/RED
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
saushe/Santander_Kaggle
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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