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Amritha Sharma

Arlington,VA

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Scientist II

AMAZON
New York City, USA
01.2025 - Current

People Analytics & Hiring AI (PXT)

  • Conducted extensive causal inference studies using TWFE, panel regression, and difference-in-differences models, evaluating the impact of internal AI tools, referral programs, and internship initiatives on hiring efficiency and success metrics.
  • Developed a multi-agent AI framework using LangGraph, Strands, and Kiro, deploying agents for data extraction, causal analysis, document/narrative generation, and a Steering Guide Agent, integrated via AWS Lambda and connectors, automating insights for 200+ recruiters globally.
  • Orchestrated scalable ML pipelines in LangGraph and Strands for automated reporting and advanced analytics, enhancing governance across global hiring workflows.

Advertising & Media Intelligence (Ads)

  • Designed and deployed contextual bandits-based budget optimization models using Python/ML pipelines, dynamically reallocating ad spend across products and achieving ~40% lift in ROAS.
  • Engineered a PySpark EMR pipeline tracking 17K advertisers’ behavior, enabling repeat usage framework that influenced >$2B in ad spend, with insights presented in executive WBRs.
  • Developed reach estimation API for Prime Video and Twitch, utilizing probabilistic sketching and deduplication in scalable ML pipelines for cross-channel audience forecasting.

Data Scientist

TIGER ANALYTICS
Jersey City, USA
05.2022 - 12.2024
  • Applied Bayesian inference and MCMC to analyze drivers of vaccine brand decisions for 5,000+ physicians, providing actionable insights that informed targeted campaigns and enhanced brand adoption.
  • Identified 9M+ high-probability vaccination patients using ensemble methods and neural networks (recall 81%); applied tree-based segmentation on lifestyle data to optimize targeted marketing campaigns.
  • Executed A/B tests for HPV and pneumococcal vaccine campaigns, testing targeting strategies and messaging, achieving 10× lift in campaign effectiveness.
  • Developed model using peer-country similarity and engineered features to quantify vaccine hesitancy, facilitating identification of drivers and opportunities per country-level hesitancy percentage.
  • Designed a survey automation tool using LLMs & sentence vectorization, enabling stakeholders to generate customer segments and marketing strategies within minutes.

Data Science Research Assistant

PROCTOR & GAMBLE (UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLAB.)
Cincinnati, USA
09.2021 - 04.2022
  • Implemented XGBoost classifier on 1.6 million personal care newsletters, identifying top 20 newsletters for R&D team based on predicted probabilities.
  • Analyzed data from ~1000 sensor embedded devices using time series modelling to identify abnormal behavior in hair care product, providing recommendations to mitigate risk of failure.

Analytics Consultant

IQVIA
Pune, India
06.2019 - 08.2021
  • Managed daily operations of AWS enterprise data lake, assisting client in restructuring and optimizing data storage to achieve $3.5 million cost reductions.
  • Managed daily operations of an AWS enterprise data lake and assisted the client in restructuring and optimizing data storage, resulting in $3.5 million cost reductions.
  • Led team of 5 in ad hoc analyses for multiple breast cancer drugs and sales forecasting, achieving 12% reduction in MAPE.

Education

MS - Business Analytics

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

B.E. - Computer Engineering

University of Pune
Pune, India

Skills

  • Predictive modeling and analysis
  • AI and machine learning frameworks
  • Causal Inference
  • Optimization algorithms and techniques
  • Big data and cloud engineering
  • Data lakes and resource optimization
  • Automated reporting and visualization
  • Programming and analytics support

Timeline

Data Scientist II

AMAZON
01.2025 - Current

Data Scientist

TIGER ANALYTICS
05.2022 - 12.2024

Data Science Research Assistant

PROCTOR & GAMBLE (UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLAB.)
09.2021 - 04.2022

Analytics Consultant

IQVIA
06.2019 - 08.2021

MS - Business Analytics

University of Cincinnati

B.E. - Computer Engineering

University of Pune
Amritha Sharma