About

Rahul Adlakha is a seasoned Data Scientist and leader with over 8 years of experience in the field of Machine Learning and Data Science. He is currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at Anheuser-Busch InBev, where he leads a team of Data Scientists and focuses on transforming business functions such as Supply, Logistics, and International. Rahul has a strong track record of solving complex business problems using predictive modelling techniques and data-driven solutions. He has saved ~2M USD in CAPEX cost by predicting the returns of used bottles to breweries and has led efficient inventory deployment by using linear programming optimization, leading to 3.5M USD savings. He has also improved the overall NPS score by 4% by effectively allocating production to the demand forecast for export customers. In addition to his technical expertise, Rahul is also skilled in product development, system architecture, and data flows. He has experience in implementing Agile practices at scale for development and productizing the POCs. He is adept at leading cross-functional collaboration with Data Engineering, BI Analysts, and MLOps teams. Rahul is also proficient in tracking benefit KPIs and enabling visibility into the savings through data science capabilities, EBITA Impact, Risk Savings, effective planning CAPEX savings, and NPS score improvement. Prior to his current role, Rahul worked as a Data Scientist at Adobe and was responsible for designing and developing Data Science solutions with cross-functional collaboration. He enabled the CX team to improve the NPS score by 5 for enterprise business customer experience by summarizing feedbacks and segmenting them to different categories by using NLP. He also developed and productized customer health prediction models with an accuracy of ~90% along with an alert mechanism for Customer Success Managers. Rahul was also the lead Product Development and Subject Matter expert for Project Panorama for Digital Media products such as Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. Rahul holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Software Systems with a specialization in Data Analytics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Engineering from Kurukshetra University. He is skilled in various technologies such as Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Sagemaker, Databricks, AI, CI/CD, Tensorflow, Pandas, DevOps, Pytorch, and more. Rahul has a relevant experience of 9.53