Summary
Veerdhwaj Rathore is a data science and AI leader with 8 years of experience, currently heading Global Data Science for Social Business Analytics at Unilever where he combines strategic oversight with hands-on engineering. He has built large-scale analytics pipelines and models—driving sentiment analysis on 500M+ records, processing 5B campaign records across 40+ countries, and delivering AI tools that helped launch 40+ products in 18 months. Technically fluent in Python, PySpark, Azure Databricks, Dataiku and Power BI, he translates noisy social, news and e‑commerce signals into actionable trend forecasts and audience-targeting solutions. As a Scrum Master and former consultant, he blends Agile product delivery with cross-functional stakeholder management to embed analytics into marketing and product teams. His background includes MTech in AI/ML from BITS Pilani and practical experience automating critical pandemic-era data pipelines—evidence of his ability to deliver impact under pressure. He’s equally interested in generative AI for product ideation and pragmatic deployment of models at enterprise scale.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
School, Computer Science, School, Computer Science at St.Anselm's Sr. Sec. School, Jaipur
English, Hindi