Vijay Balakrishnan

Experience

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  Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd.

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2014

  Engineer

  Product Benchmarking Activities: Technical: Tear down analysis, Mechanical Details Capture, BOM, Product Overview, Assembly intents, Competitor study Commercial Benchmarking: Component Cost estimation, Assembly Cost estimationEngineering Change Management Activities using ERP: Monitoring product changes: Drawings, BOMs, Maintain product history, ECR Co-ordinationTool Testing and Development: Product configurator tool testing and developmentTechnical Scouting Activities Show less

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  Nielsen India

  Apr 2015 - May 2015

  Summer Intern

  Market Research(Primary and secondary) project for a telecom client.Involved in execution of field work for the 23+ country study.

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  Wipro Limited

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

  Assistant Manager

  -Part of Pre-sales team for a Platform based product with embedded analytics, workflow management, ERP and cloud integration, Knowledge Management, Robotics process automation and Cognitive Intelligence.- Deliver demonstrations to client on our products and identify fit to existing IT systems- Value-proposition development, Marketing content development, Product positioning, Pricing and solution development

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  KPMG Global Services (KGS)

  Jul 2018 - Jan 2023

  Led multiple Techno functional projects and acted as a key poc between End clients and Internal teams to translate requirements, create solution frameworks and handle projects for delivery including all relevant metrics including ETL pipelines, Data Quality and Governance, Advanced analytics and Visualization, detailed documentations, program management, etc Leading multiple techno functional Finance Transformation and Financial Services ( Capital Market / Asset Management ) Automation and Consulting projects with ETL, Data Visualization & AnalyticsProject management and Key Stakeholder Business Analysis and Solution discussions Leading Techno Functional Finance Transformation projects - Finance Accounting Hub: Business Model analysis and Use cases categorisations for accounting, Chart of Accounts Rationalization, Business rules design, Testing Phases, Vendor & key client discussionsFinance Processes Current State Assessment - AS-IS Process flows design and study with stakeholders

  • Manager

    Oct 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Assistant Manager

    Oct 2020 - Sept 2022

  • Management Consultant

    Jul 2018 - Sept 2020
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  Amazon

  Jan 2023 - now

  Using Technology to solve Business problems.Skills: Data processing, Prompt engineering, AI/ML (Classification and Regression Algorithms, Hyper parameter tuning), Advanced NLP analytics (embeddings, Regex, NLTK, Ngrams, Transformers, BERT, etc) Generative AI- LLM( Langchain, LlamaIndex, LORA/QLORA, Claude, Custom training/fine tuning/optimization, RAGs, Vector Db etc), Statistics, Data pipelines, data warehousing, Solution design, framework, development, deployment and documentations, AWS Cloud (S3, Sagemaker, Redshift, Lambda, Bedrock, Open Search, Quicksight, IAM, etc), API calls, Tableau Show less

  • Senior BI & Data Science Lead

    Apr 2025 - now

  • Product & Operations - Data Science

    Jan 2023 - Mar 2025