Vishal Lakshmi Narayanan
Vishal Lakshmi Narayanan

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Hackathon Wins

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GitHub Contributions

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Data Scientist, AI Engineer & Analyst

Building intelligent analytics, LLM-powered products, and data systems that turn messy information intoclear decisions, useful automation, and production-ready experiences.

About

My Background and Focus Areas.

I am building my career at the intersection of data science, analytics, and AI product engineering. My work spans business-facing analysis, predictive modeling, semantic search and matching, LLM applications, and the full-stack systems needed to make those ideas usable in practice.

Across my projects, I have worked on funnel analysis, pricing and margin audits, geospatial analytics, tail-risk modeling, resume-job semantic matching, AI agents, and interactive LLM-powered platforms. That range is intentional. I like solving problems where data, product thinking, and engineering all need to come together.

I do not want to be limited to a narrow analyst label. I want to build systems that are technically strong and useful in the real world, whether that means designing a warehouse model, evaluating an ML pipeline, shipping an AI interface, or translating a messy dataset into a decision someone can act on immediately.

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Data Science Thinking

I work from problem framing to model evaluation, using statistics, ML, and experimentation to answer questions that matter to the business rather than optimizing for technical novelty alone.

Analytics with Actionability

My analytics work is built around decisions: margin recovery, funnel optimization, risk detection, forecasting direction, and operational clarity for teams that need an answer now.

LLM Product Building

I design and ship LLM-powered systems for planning, simulation, semantic matching, education, and workflow automation, with a focus on useful interfaces and grounded outputs.

End-to-End Execution

I am comfortable moving across SQL, ETL, dashboards, APIs, full-stack apps, and deployment workflows, which lets me take an idea from raw data all the way to a usable product.

Experience

Where I've worked.

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Jan 2026 to Present

Project Manager

The AI Society at ASU

Tempe, AZ

  • Directing eight teams through a 12-week build cycle focused on computer vision, recommendation engines, and autonomous agent applications.
  • Reviewing GitHub activity and Notion updates each week to keep engineering progress, documentation quality, and milestone delivery on track.
  • Working with mentors and industry collaborators to keep project scope aligned with practical product expectations and technical feasibility.

Jan 2026 to Mar 2026

Data Science Project Contributor

The Unit of Data Science & Analytics Lab ASU

Tempe, AZ

  • Built a transcript ingestion workflow that pulled raw YouTube speech data into a cleaned dataset for immigration narrative analysis.
  • Used LDA topic modeling to trace how themes in political messaging shifted across the speech corpus.
  • Fine-tuned a DistilBERT-based sentiment pipeline to classify audience response patterns across multiple media contexts.
  • Connected FRED economic indicators with sentiment outputs and surfaced a 143% rise in the Migration Fear Index versus its long-run baseline.

Oct 2025 to Feb 2026

Data Engineer

Devlabs

Tempe, AZ

  • Built a RAG ingestion pipeline that parsed 670+ resumes and converted unstructured candidate data into dense vector representations.
  • Designed a MongoDB Atlas vector store to persist embedded profiles and support scalable retrieval.
  • Implemented cosine similarity ranking to return the ten strongest candidate matches in under five seconds.
  • Reduced embedding overhead by processing only newly added resumes, which cut repeated compute and API spend.
  • Adjusted ranking behavior from founder feedback to make search results more relevant for recruiter decision-making.

May 2023 to Jul 2023

Data Analyst Intern

Amrutanjan HealthCare Ltd.

Chennai, India

  • Replaced a manual monthly reporting workflow with Python automation, cutting turnaround time from five hours to roughly forty-five minutes.
  • Mapped outlet performance with GeoPandas across 32 retail locations and highlighted seven regions that needed distribution attention.
  • Tracked SKU movement trends to expose stock imbalances and support faster coordination with sales and operations teams.
  • Presented regional performance patterns to sales leadership to guide territory-level distribution decisions.
  • Cleaned and validated raw sales records so downstream reporting stayed consistent and reliable for management review.

Dec 2022 to Jun 2023

Research & Development Intern

Vellore Institute of Technology

Chennai, India

  • Partnered on a healthcare innovation initiative with Global Health Research and Innovations in Canada, exploring edge computing and AR/VR for equitable care delivery.
  • Assessed whether bandwidth-intensive immersive systems could realistically operate within constrained medical environments.
  • Contributed to a published paper in the Dovepress Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare on deployment strategies for edge-enabled medical platforms.

Projects

Explore My Featured work.

Project writeups are now grouped by domain. The section opens on Data Analytics and shows one category at a time so each body of work reads as a focused collection instead of a wall of cards.

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Active category

Data Analytics

SQL-heavy audits, dashboarding, ETL, and operational decision support.

Margin OptimizationData Analytics

Strategic Price-Point Analysis and Margin Optimization

Margin recovery and waste mitigation within the Dairy category

An automated ETL pipeline to balance revenue recovery with community accessibility, identifying instances of margin erosion and waste accumulation.

Google BigQueryPythonSQLTableauETL
Funnel OptimizationData Analytics

GCP E-Commerce Funnel Optimization

Pinpointing where customers drop off and why

A 5-stage conversion funnel built on BigQuery analyzing 2,300+ user events to surface stage-by-stage drop-offs and inform channel budget allocation.

Google Cloud PlatformBigQuerySQLData Analysis
Geospatial DashboardingData Analytics

Tempe Urban Forest Analytics

Microburst impact assessment and tree risk management

An interactive geospatial dashboard mapping 40,000+ Tempe trees to surface storm-vulnerable corridors, environmental impact, and canopy risk trends.

PythonStreamlitGeoPandasPlotlyPandas

Skills

Data, AI, and Product Engineering.

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Languages & Tools

PythonSQLJavaScriptTypeScriptGitGitHubJupyterExcelPostmanREST APIs

AI & ML

Machine LearningPredictive ModelingFeature EngineeringModel EvaluationXGBoostscikit-learnEmbeddingsVector Search ConceptsLLM Prompt EngineeringRAG ConceptsLLM EvaluationAI Agents

Frameworks

PandasNumPyStreamlitNext.jsReactFramer MotionLangChainGeoPandasPlotlyTableauPower BIReact Three Fiber

Data

BigQueryMongoDBPostgreSQLMySQLSupabaseData ModelingETL PipelinesData WarehousingDashboardingKPI Design

Cloud & DevOps

Google Cloud PlatformVercelDockerGitHub ActionsCI/CD ConceptsEnvironment ManagementAPI IntegrationOAuthn8nWorkflow Automation

Analytics & Decisioning

Exploratory Data AnalysisFunnel AnalysisA/B TestingHypothesis TestingRisk AnalysisForecasting ConceptsBusiness IntelligenceStakeholder CommunicationExperiment DesignInsight Storytelling

Contact

Let's connect.

Open to roles in data analytics, data science, data engineering, and AI engineering. Let's talk about what data can do for your business!

lvishal1607@gmail.com
+1 (480) 304 1340
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