Résumé

Prateek Gaurav

Senior Data Science Manager

New York metropolitan area

prateekgaurav23@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/prateekgaurav

Profile

Data science leader and hands-on AI/ML builder with experience at LG Electronics, Amazon, and Fractal Analytics. Owns work from discovery and modeling through evaluation, deployment, and adoption. Focused on production machine learning, agentic systems, and generative AI products.

Experience

LG Electronics

Aug 2023 — Present

Senior Data Science Manager / Lead Data Scientist

Lead the data science team, set technical direction, and personally design, code, and ship production AI systems. Own the work from discovery and modeling through deployment and adoption.

  • Real-time forecasting, anomaly detection, and agentic investigation for 26 KPIs.
  • Customer intelligence that scores 35M+ customers daily.
  • RAG-based campaign creation, LLM personalization, and an internal analytics assistant.

Amazon

Jun 2022 — Mar 2023

Data Scientist

Built semantic search for an internal tool serving 38,000+ employees, and developed Python Dash applications to put ML and NLP capabilities in the hands of non-technical users.

  • LSI, TF-IDF, SVD, hyperparameter tuning, and ensemble result ranking.

Fractal Analytics

Jun 2019 — Oct 2020

Data Science Consultant

Worked with General Mills' finance team and Mondelez's global supply chain team on decision-support dashboards, business KPIs, and Python-based data automation.

  • Built Tableau dashboards for finance, supply chain, and executive decision-making.

Udacity

Mar 2019 — Jan 2021

Data Science Mentor & Reviewer

Mentored Business Analytics and Predictive Analytics Nanodegree students through live teaching and individual project reviews.

  • Reviewed more than 1,000 student projects.

FabHotels

Oct 2018 — Feb 2019

Business Intelligence Analyst

Worked with the founding team and CMO on booking reliability, fraud detection, and pricing. A customer scoring and confirmation process helped reduce no-show rates from 25% to 13%.

  • Built regression models, Python analysis, and tools for cluster managers.

OneDirect

Nov 2017 — Jul 2018

Business Analyst

Analyzed brand performance and marketing campaigns, built analytical reports, and introduced Python web crawlers to improve the team's data collection.

Spoyl

Jul 2017 — Aug 2017

Data Analyst Intern

Supported acquisition and marketing teams with campaign analysis, data extraction, and dashboards.

Education

Boston University

Master’s in Applied Data Analytics · Jan 2021 – May 2022

Udacity

Machine Learning, Data Visualization, and Predictive Analytics for Business Nanodegrees

Expertise

Agentic AI: LangGraph · Vertex AI · LLM-as-Judge

Production ML: Python · Time series · Gradient boosting

Generative AI: RAG · Large language models · NLP

Mentoring & writing

KaggleX mentor and former Udacity mentor and reviewer, with more than 1,000 student projects reviewed. Writes about data science and machine learning at medium.com/@prateekgaurav.