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Senior Data & AI Practitioner · Snowflake + Cortex | Certified AI Consultant (CAIC) | Helping IT & Analytics Professionals Become AI Consultants/helping freshers to land job in Data & AI

About

"My path into AI didn't start with transformers. It started with SQL, messy business requirements, and the unglamorous work of figuring out which question was actually worth answering." 10+ years across BFSI, healthcare, cybersecurity, retail, and supply chain — shipping ML models, BI systems, and more recently, LLM and RAG architectures on Snowflake. Not as a researcher. As the person responsible for making it work in a regulated production environment with real stakeholders, real constraints, and real consequences when the analysis is wrong. That practitioner's path is what I build on at IntelliBridge — a consulting education initiative I run alongside my day job. Not a course factory. Not generic AI content. A hands-on program for data professionals in India who want to move from executing analysis to scoping, building, and selling AI projects independently. Every framework I teach is something I've used. Every case study is drawn from the industries I've worked in. What I think about at work: → The discipline of asking the right question before reaching for the right tool → Why data modeling is the unglamorous prerequisite that determines whether AI actually works → What healthcare data teaches you about cybersecurity, and what banking teaches you about retail → Building AI systems that analysts, clinicians, and operators actually trust — not just demo Currently: Lead Business Consultant at kipi.ai, working on Snowflake-native AI systems — Cortex Search, OCSF-aligned data models, agentic SOC workflows. If you're a data practitioner in India thinking about what the next 3 years of your career should look like — I'm building something for you. And if you're an enterprise leader thinking about applied AI strategy, I'm always open to swapping notes.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

Work experience

Community Volunteer at IntelliBridge, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, I mentor business analysts and career-changers who want to work on AI projects but don't know where to start. Most come from other domains, so I keep each cohort to ten people and teach over weekends, with Tuesday and Thursday office hours for anyone who gets stuck. The aim is to pass on what 11 years in data and AI have taught me: a BA's job isn't to build the AI. It's to decide what should be AI, what should stay simple, and what shouldn't be touched at all. Learners work through one case study from the first session to their final capstone. Along the way they practise discovery and requirement gathering, write BRDs and user stories, check business metrics (KPIs) with SQL, and finish with a portfolio they can show in interviews. I want every learner to be the person in the room who asks the question that changes the project, not the one who gets talked over.

Lead Business Consultant at kipi.ai, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Designing and shipping Snowflake-native AI systems — Cortex Search, RAG architectures, agentic workflows — for enterprise clients across cybersecurity and data platforms Building OCSF-aligned data models and feature stores as the production foundation for AI systems that analysts and operators actually trust Leading business consulting on AI platform decisions: where to use AI, where not to, and how to frame the ROI case for regulated industries Working at the intersection of enterprise data architecture and applied AI — the place where the last two years of hype meets what regulated businesses will actually deploy

Lead Consultant at Morgan Stanley, Apr 2023 - Mar 2026 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Delivered data and AI consulting engagements across financial services — ML models, BI systems, and data governance frameworks in a highly regulated environment Learned how financial institutions evaluate AI risk differently from every other industry — a perspective that shapes how I think about responsible AI deployment Managed stakeholder relationships across technical and non-technical leadership, translating analytical findings into business decisions at the executive level

Senior Consultant at Factspan Inc., Oct 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Built ML and BI solutions across retail, healthcare, and supply chain clients — the cross-domain work that revealed the patterns most domain-specialist analysts never see Developed the habit of asking which question is worth answering before building anything — the consulting instinct that now forms the foundation of everything I teach

Apprentice Leader at Mu-Sigma, Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 y 9 mo, Bengaluru, Trained in the Mu Sigma problem-solving methodology — structured, decision-first analytical thinking that became the intellectual backbone of my consulting approach Worked across multiple client engagements simultaneously, developing the ability to context-switch between industries and business models without losing analytical rigour

Education

PGDM (LEAD), Business Analytics, T.A.Pai Management Institute, Manipal

mechanical engineering, Industrial and Product Design, Sambhram Institute of Technology, BANGALORE

Public links

github: https://github.com/akv803101