Ravikumar Nalawade
Available for roles

Ravikumar Nalawade

Data Scientist & ML Engineer

I turn raw data into decisions. Building ML pipelines, predictive models, and AI-powered analytics — AWS ML Engineer & Azure Data Scientist certified.

4 Cloud Certs
5+ Yrs Experience
82% ML Accuracy

Currently Building

Hands-on with what's shipping in AI — not just watching tutorials.

🤖 In Progress

AI Customer Support Chatbot

Multi-turn conversational agent with persistent memory using LangChain + GPT-4o. Handles intent detection, context retention, and escalation routing. Served via FastAPI.

LangChain GPT-4o FastAPI Python
📚 In Progress

RAG Pipeline for Document Q&A

Retrieval-Augmented Generation over private documents using LlamaIndex + Pinecone. Semantic search, chunking strategies, and citation grounding via Claude API.

RAG LlamaIndex Pinecone Claude API
🛠️ In Progress

MCP Data Analytics Server

Model Context Protocol server exposing SQL databases and BI tools as context to LLMs. Lets Claude query live data, run analysis, and return structured insights.

MCP Claude API SQL Tool Use
🧠 In Progress

Autonomous Data Analysis Agent

Multi-step AI agent that loads datasets, picks strategies, writes and runs Python, interprets results, and generates reports — with human-in-the-loop checkpoints via LangGraph.

AI Agents LangGraph AWS Bedrock HITL

Experience

UI Health Chicago, IL

Business Intelligence Analyst

  • Extracted healthcare claims data via Oracle SQL; enabled denial rate and fraud pattern analysis.
  • Built Tableau dashboards for stakeholder decision-making on denial rates and reimbursement.
  • Preprocessed data using Python — feature engineering, outlier handling, and EDA.
PythonSQLTableauEDAHealthcare
IDFC First Bank

Officer

  • Mapped catchment area for 5,000+ customers monthly; grew new-to-bank acquisition by 30%.
  • Built Tableau and Excel dashboards for weekly customer data forecasting.
  • Ran retail market basket analysis to surface cross-sell opportunities.
TableauMarket Basket AnalysisForecasting
ABC Paradigms Pvt. Ltd.

Associate — Data Science

  • Built RFM + K-means clustering segmenting customers into 5 groups; flagged 17% at churn risk.
  • Surfaced $1M revenue opportunity in 3 months via Tableau-driven sales insights.
  • Ran A/B tests on marketing campaigns — 11% lift in customer retention.
K-meansRFM AnalysisA/B TestingScikit-learn

Projects

🔍 Anomaly Detection

ELD Fraud Detection

Analyzed 340 driver logs to detect fraud — illegal API calls, co-driver misuse, tampered duty-status. Built detection heuristics and security recommendations.

340 logs · Pattern-based detection
PythonPandasMatplotlibFraud Detection
💳 ML Classification

Credit Risk Analysis

Predicted loan defaulters from 100K borrowers using ensemble ML. Engineered features from raw credit data; evaluated LR, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting.

82% accuracy · 100K borrowers
Scikit-learnRandom ForestGradient Boosting
🏥 Healthcare Analytics

Health Informatics Analysis

End-to-end clinical data pipeline analyzing patient outcomes from hospital claims. Applied statistical methods and ML to identify readmission risk factors.

Clinical claims · Outcome prediction
PythonSQLTableau

Skills

ML / AI

Scikit-learn TensorFlow Classification Clustering Feature Engineering A/B Testing

Languages

Python R SQL

Analytics & BI

Tableau Power BI Alteryx Pandas NumPy Matplotlib

Cloud & Data

AWS Azure Snowflake MySQL

Certifications

AWS SAA

AWS Solutions Architect

Associate

AWS MLE

AWS ML Engineer

Associate

AWS CCP

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Foundational

AZ

Azure Data Scientist

Associate

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

MS in Business Analytics

National Institute of Securities Markets

PGCM Data Science in Financial Markets

University of Mumbai

BE in Biotechnology Engineering

Let's build something.

Open to Data Scientist, ML Engineer, and AI Engineer roles. Available for full-time and contract work.