Ramakrishna Soma
Staff Data Scientist
Pleasanton,California
Summary
15+ years of industry experience in data science and software development. PhD in Computer Science from a top tier US university. Proven ability to lead product development from concept to prototyping to deployment in fast paced agile settings. Demonstrated success in applying complex and cutting edge computer/data science techniques to a wide range of business and scientific problems. Extensive project, team, community leadership experience.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Data Scientist
Included Health
10.2017 - Current
- Drive and deliver data science products that power multiple key service lines, contributing to over $10M in annual revenue.
- Spearheaded the roadmap and execution of member-facing recommendations, resulting in a 10% increase in engagement and millions in revenue retention through homepage recommendations and push notifications.
- Lead personalization platform initiatives, enabling marketing outreach, clinical decision support insights, and user engagement strategies.
- Champion a data-driven culture, fostering experimentation through tool development, advocacy, and hands-on contributions.
- Defined and executed the AI transformation roadmap for the Provider Search product, delivering an AI agent for chat-based provider discovery and network verification.
- Awarded multiple patents for innovative contributions in AI and data science.
- Recognized through multiple hackathon wins and employee excellence awards for impactful innovations.
Tech Lead Manager / Lead Data Scientist
Virtually Live
04.2016 - 09.2017
- First full time Data Scientist working on real-time data processing problem for sports (IoT) data.
- Hired and led a team of 5 data scientists and engineers; Directly managed 2 data scientist/engineer.
- Developed key Bayesian/particle filtering and machine learning algorithms.
- Owned the data processing platform including the architecture of the first version of a cloud (AWS) based Data Science stack, system APIs and integrations with data providers.
- Primary interface with upper management/executive team on roadmap, sprints, resources etc.
Sr. Data Scientist
EcoFactor
11.2014 - 04.2016
- Lead or contribute to various data science efforts in the area of IoT/ smart thermostat control in an agile, fast paced data science team.
- Perform data mining, machine learning and/or data analysis for a wide range of challenging problems. Analysis/problems addressed include - time series analysis (fault detection, classification etc.), schedule recommendation system, reinforcement learning algorithm, feature extraction, metrics definition, experimental design and A/B testing etc.
- Develop and integrate analytics into the production system running on Hadoop and python.
- Key contributions to operate, optimize, modernize hadoop/hive based data pipeline from data ingestion to analytics, includes porting stack to AWS.
- Skills - Hive, Python (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), R, Spark, SQL, Git, Jira
Data Scientist
Chevron
10.2008 - 11.2014
- Lead the Big Data effort - in charge of the reference architecture, and PoCs/projects (Hadoop/Cloudera, R).
- Developed a novel in house analytical/data science tool addressing a core business problem. The toolkit included a wide range of analysis techniques - non-linear optimization, regression analysis, geo-spatial analysis (interpolation, raster algebra etc.), computational geometry algorithms, Monte Carlo analysis etc. (.NET/C#, GAMS, ArcGIS, Matlab).
- Architected and led development of machine learning/data mining system to predict equipment failures. (Support Vector Machines, Semi-supervised Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Bayesian Networks, Rapid Miner, Weka, SQL Server).
- Developed an in-house algorithm to estimate system state, based on large amounts of real time data obtained from drilling rigs. Worked with SMEs to develop various visualizations to use the results to improve performance (Time series analysis, Feature engineering, SQL, Hidden Markov Algorithm, Spotfire).
- Architected and led development of a system to extract metadata from file names of earth science projects. (Naive Bayes, Active Learning, Weka, Java).
- Built a framework for applying data mining algorithms to earth science data. Analyzed and tested multiple datasets with tool (Fuzzy Logic, Series data transformations, Java, Weka).
- Published multiple whitepapers that highlighted the opportunities and risks of applying semantic web technologies at Chevron.
- Two patents pending related to the work done in Chevron.
Semantic Technology/Text Analytics Expert
A Mobile News App
07.2013 - 12.2013
- Developed a novel, high performance text summarization algorithm for the award winning NewsHog mobile news application (Stanford NLP, WordNet, PageRank, Apache Thrift, AWS, DBPedia, Java).
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Southern California
08.2003 - 09.2008
- Developed one of the first parallel algorithms for semantic web/OWL inference.
- Performed research on predictive analytics for operating system driven low power techniques. This resulted in numerous widely cited publications.
- Performed research on using OWL to solve information management and integration problems in Chevron.
- Developed a prototype for a metadata management system, which was commercialized. (Java, Swing, Tomcat, Axis2, .NET, OWL, Jena).
Senior Software Engineer
Plexus Technologies
01.2001 - 12.2002
Co-Founder
Ceasewire Labs
07.2000 - 06.2001
- Designed and developed a product that extended business systems to mobile devices.
Education
PhD - Computer Science
01.2003 - 1 2008
BE - Computer Science
01.1995 - 1 1999
Skills
AI technologies
Timeline
Staff Data Scientist - Included Health
10.2017 - Current
Tech Lead Manager / Lead Data Scientist - Virtually Live
04.2016 - 09.2017
Sr. Data Scientist - EcoFactor
11.2014 - 04.2016
Semantic Technology/Text Analytics Expert - A Mobile News App
07.2013 - 12.2013
Data Scientist - Chevron
10.2008 - 11.2014
Graduate Research Assistant - University of Southern California
08.2003 - 09.2008
University of Southern California - PhD, Computer Science
01.2003 - 1 2008
Senior Software Engineer - Plexus Technologies
01.2001 - 12.2002
Co-Founder - Ceasewire Labs
07.2000 - 06.2001
University of Mysore - BE, Computer Science
01.1995 - 1 1999
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