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 and AI/ML Solutions Architect with over 10 years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI. Currently a Manager in Deloitte's Generative AI Centre of Excellence, serving as Solution Architect and Delivery Lead for enterprise programmes across Asia Pacific. Leads cross-functional teams, shapes AI strategy and solution roadmaps, and delivers business-critical platforms from problem definition and architecture through MLOps, deployment, and value realisation. Experience spans aerospace, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, retail, manufacturing, and banking, including predictive maintenance across 1,000+ aircraft engines, a GenAI training platform, demand forecasting at 90% accuracy, and supply chain optimisation delivering $1.2M monthly savings.

Key Achievements

🎯 Leadership & Delivery

  • Led enterprise AI and analytics programmes as Solution Architect and Delivery Lead in Deloitte's Generative AI Centre of Excellence across Asia Pacific
  • Led deployment of predictive maintenance ML models across 1,000+ aircraft engines, supporting earlier failure detection and improved maintenance planning
  • Led cross-functional delivery of Walmart LATAM supply chain analytics, generating $1.2M/month in savings
  • 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
  • Led architecture and delivery of a GenAI training and evaluation platform with quiz generation, answer evaluation, a RAG chatbot, and analytics for pharmaceutical sales teams
  • Designed an Agentic AI maintenance strategy platform combining GenAI, machine learning, reliability engineering, and optimisation for risk-based maintenance planning
  • Developed a GenAI competitive intelligence pipeline using FDA data, web intelligence, Vertex AI, and BigQuery
  • 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: Manufacturing Client

  • Led solution architecture, AI design, and platform development for an Agentic AI-powered predictive maintenance and strategy optimisation platform, moving maintenance planning towards risk-driven decisions
  • Designed Generative AI workflows to review SAP work orders and engineer notes, improve functional location and material mappings, and identify failure and component replacement events hidden in maintenance text
  • Defined reliability engineering and Weibull analysis approaches to assess asset failure probability, hazard, and remaining useful life across material, equipment, and functional location levels
  • Designed agentic planning and optimisation workflows that balance asset criticality and failure risk with labour, cost, inventory, workforce skills, and shutdown constraints; recommendations remain subject to engineer review

Client: Pharma Client

  • Led the architecture, design, and delivery of a Generative AI training and evaluation platform for pharmaceutical sales teams, automating quiz generation, answer evaluation, and knowledge assessments using AWS, FastAPI, React, and LangChain
  • Delivered a scalable RAG chatbot and analytics platform to support knowledge access and learning effectiveness across the organisation
  • 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: FMCG

  • 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: Pharma Manufacturer

  • 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 and web intelligence, with LLM-based analysis 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: FMCG

  • Developed a workforce planning application that assigned manufacturing jobs to contractors based on preferences, availability, and historical performance using optimisation techniques

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
  • Reliability & Optimisation: Predictive maintenance, Weibull analysis, reliability engineering, mathematical optimisation, Monte Carlo simulation
  • Visualisation: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Streamlit, HTML, Javascript
  • Cloud & Platforms: Azure, Azure ML, AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI, SAP integration
  • Leadership & Delivery: Programme delivery, solution architecture, AI strategy, cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder management, roadmap planning, MLOps, CI/CD, model monitoring, and value realisation

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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