Ansh Thakur
@user.2567350
Data Scientist at CollegeDekho
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Ansh Thakur is a data scientist and product manager with a dual degree in Chemical Engineering and Biological Sciences from BITS Pilani. He has experience spanning data science, business intelligence, and product management across startups and large corporations. His technical expertise includes Generative AI, NLP, machine learning, and deep learning, applied across industries including EdTech, fintech, retail, and sustainability.
Experience
Data Scientist
CollegeDekho
Implemented an ETL pipeline to extract unstructured data from university websites and store it in an Elasticsearch vector database. Developed a RAG pipeline using Haystack for querying college details. Designed a Mapping Algorithm with ~93% accuracy to match college and course names between disparate data sources.
Data Scientist (Contract)
Climate Bonds Initiative
Developed a robust multi-taxonomy classification model for project descriptions aligned with sustainability guidelines. Used stacking ensembling on TF-IDF/XGBoost and sentence transformer. Reduced TAT of the task by ~65%.
Business Analytics Manager – Small Business Banking Loans
Axis Bank – Business Intelligence Unit
Developed a Business Lending Score model for Merchant Base using Logistic Regression in PySpark. Developed and optimized PROC SQL queries in SAS for monthly customer base creation contributing to ~500 Cr monthly business.
Business Excellence: Business Intelligence Analytics and Product Management (Contract)
Urban Ladder
Managed oracUL – Urban Ladder's Order Management Tracking System. Achieved ~30% increase in Overall and ~26% increase in High Priority Inventory Availability. Designed a Reorder Engine for inventory replenishment using time series forecasting.
Product Development and Management (Freelance)
Trueno
Electric Vehicle Prototyping and MVP Application Development. Created MVP application feature set via user research and competitor analysis. Led a team of 3 designers and 3 engineers.
Business Analyst
College Dunia Web Pvt Ltd
Digital transformation of study abroad business operations. Developed counsellor scorecards. Boosted sales by ~18% and reduced churn by ~20%.
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani
B.E.(Hons) Chemical Engineering and M.Sc.(Hons) Biological Science
Chemical Engineering and Biological Science