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Abhishek Kumar

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Building scalable platforms & transforming raw data into actionable insights, intelligence, and business impact.

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Who I Am

Have architected and built the complete data and backend tech stack for two startups focused on carbon capture and carbon tracking across enterprise sustainability use cases.

Bringing over 7 years of experience uncovering high-impact business growth insights from raw, complex data, with a persistent, execution-driven approach to solving challenging data problems and a strong end-to-end ownership mindset.

Data Engineer ML Engineer Database Architect Data Analyst Business Analyst Product Analyst

Domain Expertise

Retail Grocery
Healthcare
E-Commerce
Fintech
Agritech
Carbon Capture
Carbon Tracking
Agentic AI
Defence

Career Journey

Albertsons Companies

Senior Engineer - Data
Current Dec 2025 – Present
Full-time Hybrid Bengaluru

Hy-Vee, Inc.

Senior Data Engineer
Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr
Data Engineer II Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs
Data PipelinesGCPMySQLCI/CDDataflowCloud Functions
Star of the Quarter SPOT Award Best Team Award

Stealth Startup

Data Engineer / ML Engineer
Sep 2022 – Feb 2023 · 6 mos

Built complete data and backend tech stack for a startup focused on carbon capture monitoring using IoT sensors and cloud-native data pipelines.

MQTTIoTAWSDashboardsArduino

qZense Labs

Database Architect / ML Engineer
Nov 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos

Architected data infrastructure for enterprise sustainability use cases including carbon tracking across supply chains.

PostgreSQLAWS RDSRedshiftDeep LearningDashboards
NABARD - ONDC Grand Hackathon

Razorpay 🦄

Analyst
Sep 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos
Data AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsFintech
Most Valuable Player

Social Psychology Network - Wesleyan University

Member
Current May 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

Active member of a global community dedicated to promoting peace, social justice, and sustainable living through public education, research, and the advancement of psychology.

PsychologyResearchNetwork

Tech Arsenal

Languages & Core

PythonExpert
SQLExpert
Java
C
C#

Cloud & Infra

AWSAdvanced
GCPAdvanced
Azure
Docker
Dataflow
Cloud Functions

Data Engineering

Data PipelinesCore
MySQLExpert
PostgreSQL
MS SQL Server
Redshift
Data Modeling
Database Design
SSIS

ML / AI / Agentic

Machine LearningAdvanced
Deep Learning
TensorFlow / Keras
Computer Vision
CNNs
Agentic AI
LLMs / RAG
XAI

Visualization

Power BICertified
Data Visualization
Dashboards
Data Analysis
Business Analytics

IoT & Specialized

IoT
MQTT
Arduino
Sensors
Biometrics
Cyber Security

Featured Projects

Classified
Drone Defence System - Classified
Mar 2026 – In Progress

Drone-Based Defence System 🛡️

Classified autonomous drone defence system currently in development. Leveraging advanced sensor fusion, real-time threat assessment, and intelligent response coordination. Details restricted.

DefenceAutonomous SystemsSensor FusionReal-Time AIClassified
Agentic AI
Agentic AI Pipeline Orchestrator
2026 – Building

Agentic AI Data Pipeline Orchestrator

Autonomous multi-agent system for orchestrating ETL pipelines with LLM-powered decision nodes, self-healing architecture, and automatic data quality monitoring.

Agentic AILLMsLangGraphPythonAirflow
Agentic AI
Conversational Analytics Agent
2026 – Building

Conversational Analytics Agent

AI-powered agent for natural language to SQL translation, autonomous data exploration, knowledge graph traversal, and auto-generated insight dashboards.

RAGNL2SQLKnowledge GraphLLMsFastAPI
Building
DriveGuard AI - Industry Product
Mar 2026 – Building

DriveGuard AI - Industry Product

Converting the dissertation research into an industry-grade product for real-time driver attention monitoring - productionizing the deep CNN pipeline for fleet safety & commercial deployment.

Production MLEdge AIReal-Time InferencePythonDocker
Completed
Driver Attention Monitoring
BITS Pilani Sep 2025 – Mar 2026

Real-Time Driver Attention Monitoring

Dissertation (completed): Deep CNNs and Explainable AI (XAI) for identifying fatigue patterns through vision-based facial analysis for improved road safety. Now being converted into an industry-grade product.

Deep CNNsXAITransfer LearningComputer VisionTensorFlow
IoT DAC Monitoring
Aug 2022 – Feb 2023

IoT Monitoring for Direct Air Capture

IoT architecture for DAC with NDIR-based CO₂ sensing, MQTT transmission, AWS cloud pipeline, and QuickSight dashboard.

IoTMQTTAWSDynamoDBQuickSight
Flight Delay Prediction
Aug 2020 – Dec 2020

Flight Delay Prediction with NOAA Weather

Weather-aware delay prediction integrating flight records with NOAA data. Logistic regression with odds ratios for interpretable risk assessment.

Logistic RegressionNOAAROC-AUCFeature Engineering
Face Recognition Tracking
VTU Jun 2018 – Mar 2019

Real-Time Person Tracking via Face Recognition

Multi-camera face re-identification using CNN-based detection, deep embeddings, and similarity-based metric learning in campus deployment.

CNNEmbeddingsSiamese NetworksOpenCV

Education

BITS Pilani

Master of Technology - Data Science & Engineering

May 2024 – Apr 2026

Stanford University

Machine Learning (Coursera Certification)

2019

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

2015 – 2019

Key Certifications

Google Project Management
AWS Fundamentals
Deep Learning Specialization
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (Apr 2019)
Product Management - UMD
Cisco CCNA
Web App Pen Testing

Awards & Recognition

Research Publication - Direct Air Capture

Journal of Air Pollution and Health · Published Online: 27 Dec 2023

Co-authored "Design and fabrication of a system to capture ambient CO2," highlighting operational and sorbent parameters to improve DAC performance. View publication · ResearchGate.

NABARD - ONDC Grand Hackathon 🌾

NABARD & ONDC · Associated with qZense Labs · Jul 2022

Recognized among 300+ startups nationwide for a quality assessment innovation use case during the 4-day national hackathon.

FKCCI - Manthan Business Plan Competition 2022 (14th Edition)

FKCCI · Climate Change Sector · 2022

Business plan "Design and Fabrication of a System to Capture Ambient CO2" ranked in the top 5 out of 650+ national entries.

Certificate of Appreciation

Hy-Vee · Production Recovery Milestone · Jul 2025

Recognized for coordinated incident response that restored 45+ impacted production jobs in under 12 hours.

Star of the Quarter ⭐

Hy-Vee · Q2 2024 & Q2 2025

SPOT Award 🎯

Hy-Vee · Dec 2023

Integrating additional verification into file transmission pipeline for heightened security.

Best Team Award 🦾

Hy-Vee · Sep 2023

Most Valuable Player 💲

Razorpay · Dec 2020

IBM Data Science Professional Certificate Badge

IBM · Apr 2019

Verify credential.

Contributing Author ✍️

INARA: A Ray of Hope · 2021

Contributed poems and poetries as one of the authors in the anthology "Spectrum of Thoughts."

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