An enthusiast making sense of messy data and dreaming of cleaner orbits and navigating to galaxies beyond! 🚀🌍✨DS | ML | Space cleanup advocate

Likhith Vennam

An enthusiast making sense of messy data and dreaming of cleaner orbits and navigating to galaxies beyond! 🚀🌍✨DS | ML | Space cleanup advocate

Available to hire

An enthusiast making sense of messy data and dreaming of cleaner orbits and navigating to galaxies beyond! 🚀🌍✨DS | ML | Space cleanup advocate

Experience Level

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Data Scientist at Apple
March 1, 2021 - Present
Data Scientist responsible for developing and fine-tuning large language models to power a spend-analysis chatbot, cutting search time by 70%. Built ML models to predict optimal buy cost and supplier for silicon procurement. Architected and deployed end-to-end ETL pipelines processing 500+ jobs daily from multiple sources into Snowflake and MySQL, reducing data latency by 50%. Led classification model development for BOM parts and tiers; implemented CRF, BERT, and REGEX-based pipelines to detect and redact PII and PHI across four data sources with 90% precision. Designed prediction models for In-Store Repair and Mail-In Turnaround Time, and deployed APIs on Apple's Shuri platform (UAT and Production). Maintained IRIS, ISR, and Mail-In APIs; developed a model to forecast Repair Templates; led non-inclusive language replacement initiative within the developer ecosystem.
Data Analyst at UIC - Chicago
September 1, 2018 - March 1, 2021
Led an ML solution for request tracking to automate routing and responses using topic modeling and auto text generation, reducing response time from 48 hours to 4 hours.
Data Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions
February 1, 2018 - August 1, 2018
Analyzed classification and clustering techniques on wireless surveillance sensor motes to determine intrusion types (Visual, Magnetic, Acoustic, Thermal, Vibration); performed rigorous data analysis to define intrusion characteristics.

Education

M.S in Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago
January 11, 2030 - March 26, 2026
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering at SRM University
January 11, 2030 - March 26, 2026

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Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Professional Services