Adithya Rakesh Shankar

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Director of Data Science at Cognizant · SQL, Spark

Cognizant
Thiruvananthapuram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
PSG College of Technology
English, Hindi, Malayalam
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Overview

Currently at Cognizant, where I lead demand forecasting with a team of 13. Replaced 55 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Before that: Adobe and Meesho. Most at home with inventory optimisation and time series. I teach a weekend class on Spark.

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  • Questions about demand forecasting
  • Second opinions on SQL decisions
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Skills
Pythontime seriesProphetSparkinventory optimisationSQL

Experience

  1. Director of Data Science
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Cognizant · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Replaced 33 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  2. Data Analyst
    Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
    Adobe · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Replaced 60 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Cut forecast error from 35% to 6% across 629 SKUs.
  3. Analytics Manager
    Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
    Meesho · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Cut forecast error from 22% to 6% across 2761 SKUs.
  4. Analytics Manager
    May 2016 - Feb 2019
    Hindustan Unilever · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Taught SQL to 199 non-analysts.
  5. Data Scientist
    Dec 2012 - May 2016
    Amazon · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Cut forecast error from 34% to 7% across 584 SKUs.
    • Reduced stock-outs by 22% in the first season.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from forecasting
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling demand forecasting.

Side project: a commute planner
2023

Built with inventory optimisation and Prophet. 1585 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. PSG College of Technology
    B.E., Operations Research
    2005 - 2009

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