About

Arun Koushik Parthasarathy is an experienced professional with over 15 years of experience in research and development of products, solutions, and platforms. He is currently the Director of Data Science at SigTuple, where he is responsible for hiring medical imaging data scientists. Arun has led machine learning and data science platform innovation, development, and management for multiple industry verticals, including transportation and healthcare. He has built descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics capabilities and has expertise in data pipeline, data ingestion, cleaning and curating, ETL, model building, model validation, and model deployment. Arun has strong technical management skills, including innovation, defining roadmaps, platform model design and architecture, development, technology transfer to business, and IP creation and evaluation. He is also skilled in agile/scrum, hiring, coaching data scientists and engineers, and cross-functional team collaboration. Arun has programming skills in Python, MATLAB, Java, NodeJs/JavaScript, and SQL. He has architecture skills in cloud solutions such as Azure, distributed and real-time solutions like Spark + Kafka, API like Swagger, databases such as MSSQL, LMDB, and Oracle, and DevOps tools like Jenkins and Docker. He is also proficient in web services like RESTful and visualizations like HTML/JS, Python - Plotly, Matplotlib, Dash, and prototyping tools like Jupyter Notebook. Arun's past experiences include working as a Senior Manager of Data Science at Conduent, where he led data science and analytics platforms, innovated product roadmaps, analyzed data, built models, designed solutions, and transferred technology to business. He also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Xerox Research Center India, where he translated research work into innovative solutions for healthcare, transportation, and customer care verticals. Arun holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a major in Controls and Signal Processing from Northeastern University and a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. He has relevant experience as a data scientist, research scientist, AI, ML, SQL, Jupyter, Python, deep learning, Spark, Docker, Javascript, MSSQL, Kafka, Jenkins, DevOps, ETL, Azure, software engineer, NodeJS, Java, and test.