Sri Harsha Achyuthuni

Data Science Manager | AI/ML Solutions Architect

📍 Hyderabad, India 📧 achyuthuni.sri.harsha@gmail.com 📞 +91 9019413416 🌐 www.harshaash.com 💼 LinkedIn
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Data Science Manager with over 8 years of experience, leading cross-functional teams in the Generative AI Centre of Excellence at Deloitte Asia Pacific. Delivered AI and ML solutions across aerospace, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, retail and manufacturing, with work spanning predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, risk modelling, optimisation and generative AI. As a manager, led capability assessments, shaped solution roadmaps and guided proposal strategy for large client engagements. Overseen the design and delivery of enterprise-grade GenAI platforms, including an Agentic AI-powered IntelliOps solution and a quiz-generation and evaluation platform for Johnson & Johnson. Work includes deploying predictive maintenance systems across 1,000+ aircraft engines and demand forecasting for PepsiCo. Recognised contributor in advanced analytics with published research and multiple awards.

Key Achievements

🎯 Leadership & Delivery

  • Led deployment of predictive maintenance ML models across 1,000+ aircraft engines at Rolls-Royce, enabling early failure detection
  • Managed cross-functional teams delivering $1.2M/month savings through supply chain optimisation at Walmart LATAM
  • Built and scaled Data Centre of Excellence using Azure cloud for agricultural GCC
  • Mentored 15+ junior data scientists across 3 cohorts on forecasting and churn prediction

🚀 Innovation & Impact

  • Pioneered "Human with AI" annotation tool saving 1,200+ man-hours for aircraft engine diagnostics
  • Developed GenAI-powered competitive intelligence pipeline leveraging FDA inspection data and PaLM 2
  • Created end-to-end quiz generation system for pharmaceutical sales training using LangChain and AWS
  • Built supplier optimisation engine influencing £180M in sourcing decisions

🏆 Recognition & Awards

  • President's Bonus Award, Deloitte (2022) — Top 1% performer recognition
  • Best Paper Award (2022) — Predictive Maintenance of Aircraft Engines
  • Move the Dot Award, Deloitte (2021) — Innovation excellence
  • Highly Commended Project, IIM Bangalore (2020) — R&R Contest Optimisation

Professional Experience

Deloitte Consulting Jan 2021 – Present
Data Science Manager / Senior Consultant
Bangalore, India
  • Led cross-functional teams within the Generative AI CoE, driving innovation and strategic initiatives across the Asia Pacific region
  • Led capability assessments and defined solution roadmaps, supporting proposal strategy across multiple client engagements

Client: Rio Tinto

  • Led the design and delivery of an Agentic AI-powered IntelliOps platform using agent-based architecture to correct FLOC data, improve BOM accuracy, model component life, predict replacements, and optimise labour, material and shutdown planning

Client: Johnson & Johnson

  • Led the design and delivery of a Generative AI platform for automated quiz generation, content evaluation, and knowledge checks using LangChain, FastAPI, AWS, and React, improving training throughput and reducing manual effort
  • Acted as Solution Architect and Delivery Lead overseeing end-to-end implementation of generative AI solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility

Client: PepsiCo

  • Built and deployed granular volume forecasting models across the North American market using Python, PySpark, and Databricks, achieving 90% accuracy and improving planning across customer, location, and package dimensions
  • Designed scalable MLOps pipelines in Azure, implementing CI/CD and Continuous Training processes, enhancing reliability, monitoring, and deployment efficiency

Client: Dr Reddy's Laboratories

  • Developed a GenAI-based tool to automate the extraction of key data from US Government pre-solicitation and solicitation bids, accelerating bid creation for sales and supply chain teams
  • Developed a competitive intelligence pipeline leveraging FDA inspection news via Google News API and web scraping, integrated with PaLM 2 for analysis, and deployed using Airflow, Vertex AI, and BigQuery on Google Cloud Platform

Client: Rolls-Royce

  • Explored unsupervised learning methods to predict aircraft engine part failures, led the deployment of physics-informed ML predictive maintenance models for two parts across 1,000+ engines, and built an autoencoder-decoder model to detect anomalies by modelling new engines on the test beds using 250+ parameters
  • Created a "Human with AI" tool that saved 1,200+ man-hours by assisting SMEs in diagnosing engine issues
  • Developed a supplier optimisation engine that influenced £180M in sourcing decisions

Client: Unilever

  • Developed a proof of concept (PoC) application that assigned jobs in a manufacturing plant based on contractor preferences, past performance and availability

Client: OLAM International

  • Set up a Data Centre of Excellence using Azure Cloud and built scalable data pipelines
Tesco Business Services Apr 2020 – Jan 2021
Senior Business Analyst
Bangalore, India
  • Collaborated on data science initiatives to optimise store performance and operations across Tesco's UK, Central Europe, and Ireland markets in the Space, Range, Display, Merchandising, and Promotions domain
Mu Sigma Business Solutions Oct 2017 – Apr 2020
Decision Scientist
Bangalore, India

Client: Walmart International

  • Improved under-stocking for Walmart's LATAM supply chain, delivering $1.2M/month in savings by modelling supplier delivery risk (75% accuracy), forecasting lead times (85% SMAPE), and suggesting an optimised EOQ/reorder points that integrate these risks via integer programming and Monte Carlo simulations
  • Built an NLP-based PoC to estimate ingredient composition and cost in food items using USDA nutrient data, aiding sourcing managers and food scientists in procurement decisions
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop an interactive web application that empowered sourcing managers and buyers with real-time decision-making tool

Education

Imperial College London Business School Sep 2020 – Sep 2022
M.Sc. Business Analytics (Distinction)
London, United Kingdom
  • Graduated with Distinction
  • Core modules: Data Structures & Algorithms, Machine Learning, Network Analytics, Statistics & Econometrics
  • Active member of Data Science Club and Student Content Creator
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Jun 2019 – Jun 2020
Executive Education Programme — Business Analytics & Intelligence
Bangalore, India
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Jun 2013 – Jun 2017
B.Tech Mechanical Engineering (Distinction)
Bangalore, India
  • Graduated with Distinction | CGPA: 8.92/10

Technical Expertise

  • Analytics: Python, R, CPLEX, PySpark, SQL
  • ML Modelling: Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Hyperopt, TensorFlow, PyTorch
  • Gen AI: LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, OpenAI API, Gemini, NLTK, LoRA, RAG, Agentic AI
  • Visualisation: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Streamlit, HTML, Javascript
  • Cloud: Azure ML, Databricks, Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI
  • Project & Team Management: Agile delivery, stakeholder management, solution architecture, cross-functional team leadership, roadmap planning, risk management, and end-to-end execution

Publications

Certifications & Awards

  • Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) — Scrum.org (Certificate by scrum.org)
  • Best Paper Award — Awarded for best paper presentation at the 9th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (2022)
  • President's Bonus Award — Awarded to the top 5 per cent of employees globally at Deloitte in FY22 (2022)
  • Move the Dot Award — Awarded by Deloitte for innovation (2021)
  • Star of the Sprint — Awarded by Rolls-Royce Data Labs for excellent work
  • Highly Commended Project — Awarded by IIM Bangalore for capstone project (2020)
  • Spot Award — Awarded by Mu Sigma

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