About

Aditya Sharma is an experienced Data Science Consultant at ZS Associates with over 6 years of experience in business analytics and data sciences. He has helped businesses improve performance through sales and marketing solutions by designing, developing, integrating, and deploying AI/ML products that help client teams make better decisions. Aditya has developed capabilities in software development, data science, and data/ML engineering domains. In software development, Aditya has extensive experience in python-based production-grade codes. He knows how to profile, refactor, apply TDD frameworks, and integrate best practices to improve code performance. He has also developed python-based DAGs to run on Apache Airflow and worked on PySpark on Azure Databricks. In data science, Aditya has worked on multiple projects for clients in the insurance and hi-tech space. He has hands-on experience in Python, R, and Advanced Excel (VBA) and has delivered projects that involved executing and optimizing algorithms like LR, RF, K-NNs, XgBoost, GBMs, NNs, ARIMAs, Prophet, Shapley, Genetic/Ant-colony optimizers, Gradient/Coordinate descent, Lexrank, PageRank, Gibberish detectors, Right-aligned methods, and many others. In data/ML engineering, Aditya has significant exposure towards deploying models into production using Microsoft Azure services. He has also worked on developing build processes (Dockerization/Containerization) for CI/CD pipelines and coordinated with teams to set up unit tests, smoke tests, model logs/telemetry, and model performance monitoring systems on Power BI. Aditya's current role at ZS Associates is as a Data Science Consultant, where he is leading a team of 5+ client-facing MLEs focused on designing, developing, and integrating AI/ML products to improve prioritization of ~10M Leads over a year for ~13 Sales teams across the world. The program has created a business value of >$200M over the last 3 years, and the team has won numerous firm-wide awards and was even recognized as Program of the Year in SiriusDecisions Summit Europe. Aditya has also led another team of 7+ client-facing Data Scientists focused on designing and developing solutions that add and/or save $ in business. Aditya has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology and completed his schooling from Assisi Convent School, N