About

Aravind S Kumar is an accomplished programmer with experience in data science. He is currently pursuing his master's degree in the Perception & Cognition Stream of Robotics at The Johns Hopkins University, following his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras. Aravind has a strong background in designing, modeling, and optimizing complex systems, including convex optimization, inverse numerical methods, and practical machine learning. He has actively pursued several ventures, including hackathons, research projects, and internships, across various domains ranging from healthcare and supply chain to automotive engineering. Aravind has worked as a Data Scientist at AB-InBev, where he improved existing data pipelines, set up microservices, and CI/CD workflows to produce efficient solutions. He also worked on consolidating resources to reduce computational costs incurred for ML Inference. Aravind's skills include programming languages such as Python, C++, Matlab, Java, SQL, Bash, HTML/CSS, and tools and technologies such as Spark, Databricks, Postman, Git, HDInsight, Azure Data Factory and Studio, and Google Cloud Platform. He is also proficient in ML and DL libraries such as PyTorch, Keras, FastAI, Tensorflow, Sklearn, Imblearn, XGBoost, and other libraries such as Vision (OpenCV, PIL) and Web Scraping (Selenium, Beautiful Soup). Aravind is a licensed scrum master and agile practitioner, with experience in non-linear econometrics for finance and computational finance. He has also worked as an intern at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, where he worked on predicting the work in progress (WIP) stock of the assembly shop and optimized the process by making it data-driven, helping reduce the WIP stock by 9% and reducing monthly production shift planning time by 80%. Aravind's tech stack includes ML, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, Databricks, SQL, Keras, OpenCV, Deep Learning, Selenium, Spark, Scikit, CI/CD, Tensorflow, Microservices, Pytorch, Azure, Web, Python, Java, and DevOps. With 0.51 years of relevant experience, Aravind is a highly skilled and motivated individual with a passion for data science and machine learning.