BALAJI M

7, Sri Dakshamithra, Mouthi Hospital Road, Marutham Nagar, Vadavalli, Coimbatore. 91-9789082088
balajiciet@gmail.com, https://medium.com/@balajiciet, https://www.linkedin.com/in/balaji-muthukrishnan-6b278612

SUMMARY:
Seasoned analytics professional with 10+ years of experience in building and shipping econometrics, forecasting, machine learning and
statistical models for complex business problems. Implemented action-oriented solutions and presented insights through dashboards.

SKILLS:
Hard skills: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Pyod, Pyspark (SQL, DataFrame, MLlib), MLflow, GIT, Azure, Excel, Tableau, SQL,
SPSS Modeler.
Analytics skills: Exploratory data analysis, Visualization, Optimization, Machine learning, Recommendations, Market mix models,

EDUCATION:
Master of Engineering – Computer Science and Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore
Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Communication Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Coimbatore.

WORK EXPERIENCE
End to End life cycle of Analytical solution spanning business understanding, problem identification, data understanding, model
building, deployment and presenting insights to stakeholders.

Sep 2019 – Present

Assistant Manager Analytics, Flex Ltd., Chennai
• Mentored and trained citizen developers
• Bult a dashboard to compare Cost center wise Forecast vs Actual (Tableau).
• Anomaly detection of expenses – Identifying extreme deviation in expense categories (pyod).
• Predicting accounts receivable (Logistic regression) - To reduce DSO by 25%.
• GRNI scoring (RFM analysis) – Identified and stopped moving 10k dollars in 10 months usage.
• Travel and expenses duplicate and currency variance analysis – Identified $25.32K of duplicate claims in 1 year of usage.
April 2018 – Sep 2019
Machine Learning Engineer, Pathfinder Global FZCO., Chennai
• Interacted with stakeholders and identified the business pain points in Merchandising and Replenishment planning of the
apparel industry.
• Conducted data analysis and implemented demand forecasting (ARIMA and VAR), which resulted in 8% reduction in carryforward.
• Conducted ageing analysis (Croston Method) to do inter-store transfers which contributed to improvement in sales.
• Customer profiling (PAM), Customer lifetime value (Gamma Gamma Fitter) and Recommendation (cross sell and up sell) for
apparel customers resulted in targeted marketing for brick and mortar stores.
April 2015 – April 2018
Consultant, Teknoturf info services pvt ltd., Coimbatore
• Developed automated offline handwritten signature verification solution for banking (One class SVM and Isolation Forest),
which resulted in 80% reduction of man hours for signature verification task.
• Day part and product affinity analytics (FP growth algorithm) for F&B resulted in Menu engineering.
• Customer churn analysis for telecom and retail domain, which follows two different approaches– contractual (Logistic
Regression) and non-contractual setting problems (Beta Geo Fitter).
• Queue optimization (M/M/1 and M/M/c queuing models) to improve the performance of Government service center.
• Multi-tenant forecasting (Exponential Smoothing, ARIMA, Drift method) for Malls resulted in transparent revenue sharing
model for malls and mall tenants.
June 2010 – Nov 2014
Assistant Professor, Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore
Delivering lectures and performing research on Data mining, DBMS, Data structures, Algorithms, Probability and queuing theory.

CERTIFICATIONS AND COURSES

• IBM Certified Specialist - SPSS Modeler Professional v3
• Tableau Certified Data Scientist
• Coursera - Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyper parameter tuning,
Regularization and Optimization, Structuring Machine Learning Projects by deeplearning.ai.
• EDX – The Analytics Edge by MITx