Atul Kushwaha
Product Data Scientist/Data Engineer
Alexandria,VA
Summary
Data Scientist with 5+ years of experience using SQL, Python, experimentation, and statistical analysis to solve challenging product and business problems. Expertise in metric design, hypothesis testing, causal analysis, and transforming messy, disparate datasets spanning 1M+ to over 1B records into insights, dashboards, and recommendations that influence roadmap, growth, and customer experience. Experienced in partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Data Scientist/Data Engineer
PIVOTAL ANALYTICS
06.2024 - Current
- Designed an end-to-end provider productivity benchmarking workflow across 100M+ claims and geospatial records, generating benchmarks and recommendations that aligned stakeholders and supported customer retention efforts.
- Built and refined analytics workflows in Databricks/Spark and deployed a prompt-tuned LLM analysis agent as a co-pilot to investigate and resolve data quality issues, reducing customer support tickets by 30%.
- Engineered a high-fidelity cross-environment data release workflow, leveraging AI-assisted development to accelerate implementation; increased delivery reliability and reduced migration time and operational overhead by 80%+.
- Enhanced healthcare supply and demand modeling by resolving 10+ bugs in supply data pipelines and refining localized demand forecasting, generating more accurate market-level insights for data-driven decision-making.
- Improved platform-wide navigation responsiveness and load times by optimizing database performance and analyzing user-journey metrics, reducing page load and refresh times by 50%.
Product Analyst/Product Manager
HILABS
02.2023 - 05.2024
- Orchestrated a 90-day US-wide enterprise product launch and rollout for a Fortune 200 health insurance customer, leading cross-functional teams across time zones and achieving all GTM milestones, integrations, and success metrics.
- Architected and operationalized a customer-specific data delivery framework, consolidating disjoint ingestion, cleansing, and delivery processes into a repeatable and scalable solution, reducing time and costs by 60%+.
- Led A/B tests and causal analyses on a core product algorithm, identifying customer pain points and key satisfaction drivers; translated findings into product improvements that grew enterprise account ARR by ~20%.
- Ran 10+ experiments on a feature redesign that introduced LLMs to simplify a complex webpage-parsing step; defined success metrics, analyzed impact, and delivered product recommendations that improved a critical metric by 25%.
Product Analyst
PNC BANK
09.2022 - 12.2022
- Benchmarked pricing across 4 competitors, examined pain points across loan funnel, and translated findings into a booking-rate-uplift model and recommendations adopted in roadmap planning.
Scientist/Engineer-'SD' (Promoted from Scientist/Engineer-'SC')
INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (ISRO)
07.2016 - 11.2021
- Owned end-to-end delivery of 3 communication-satellite payloads (S75M), aligning leadership and cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, scheduling, and vendors to meet launch-critical deadlines.
- Built and maintained 4 recurring payload performance dashboards and review reports to monitor key system metrics, surface anomalies, and guide cross-functional testing and optimization decisions.
- Redesigned payload harness tracking from Excel-based records to SaaS workflows, improving traceability across design, fabrication, and testing and increasing operational throughput by ~20%.
- Led a 3-person advanced R&D team to design, prototype, and validate an optimized hardware system; evaluated design iterations against a core performance metric, guiding improvements and lowering transmission losses by 18%.
Education
Master of Science -
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Pittsburgh, PA 01.2022 - 12.2022
Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering -
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GUWAHATI (IIT GUWAHATI)
Guwahati, India 07.2012 - 06.2016
Skills
Product Analytics: Experiment Design (A/B Testing, Multivariate Testing), Metric Design (KPIs, North Star), Hypothesis Testing, Regression, Segmentation, Statistical Analysis, Funnel Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Dashboarding, Causal Inference, User Journey Analysis
Programming / Querying: Python (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch), PySpark, C/C, SQL
Data Engineering: Spark, Databricks, PostgreSQL, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, Data Lakes, Data Warehouses
Data Analysis / BI: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Tableau, Power BI, Excel, BigQuery
Machine Learning (ML)/Generative AI (Gen AI): Feature Engineering, Predictive Modeling, Classification, Clustering, Model Evaluation/Validation, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, NLP, MLOps, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering, Agentic Workflows, LLM Evaluation
Cloud/DevOps Tools: Azure, AWS, Docker, Git, CI/CD, REST APIs
Collaboration Tools: Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, Slack
Timeline
Product Data Scientist/Data Engineer
PIVOTAL ANALYTICS
06.2024 - Current
Product Analyst/Product Manager
HILABS
02.2023 - 05.2024
Product Analyst
PNC BANK
09.2022 - 12.2022
Master of Science -
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
01.2022 - 12.2022
Scientist/Engineer-'SD' (Promoted from Scientist/Engineer-'SC')
INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (ISRO)
07.2016 - 11.2021
Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering -
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GUWAHATI (IIT GUWAHATI)
07.2012 - 06.2016