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Sai Rajesh Rapelli

Data Science Engineer | Driving AI Innovation in Solid Waste Management at Avartan Labs

Hyderabad

3+ years of work experience

Avartan Labs
Mar 20268 mosPresent

– Develop, deploy, and optimize AI/ML models for waste segregation, garbage surveillance, and route planning. – Build and manage scalable data pipelines, MLOps workflows, and analytics platforms. – Oversee the complete model lifecycle including data acquisition, feature engineering, training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. – Participate in prototyping, on-site testing, and performance trials to ensure reliability and robustness. – Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, customers, investors, and ecosystem partners to drive product innovation.
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Jan 20242 yrsDec 2025

Project: Navy Obsolescence Prediction (Post-Graduate contract extension) Technologies: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Databricks, Python, SQL – Built Azure Data Factory pipelines using Copy Data, Lookup, and ForEach activities to ingest high-frequency sensor and voltage data from source systems into Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. – Implemented medallion architecture pipelines using Delta Lake to support analytics and downstream machine learning workflows. – Automated recurring transformation workflows using scheduled triggers, reducing manual data preparation effort by 50%. Project: CO2 Emission Forecasting Pipeline Technologies: Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Python, Deep Learning – Designed end-to-end ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory to ingest, clean, and transform high-frequency time-series sensor data. – Developed PySpark preprocessing workflows involving feature selection, time-series sequence preparation, data reshaping, and output transformation to support LSTM-based modeling. – Assisted with monitoring ADF pipeline runs and alerts, helping ensure timely ingestion of sensor data for analytics. – Published peer-reviewed research titled “A LSTM with Dual-stage Attention Method to Predict Amine Emissions for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage”.
Accenture
Sep 20211 yr 5 mosJan 2023

Project: WEC Energy Resource Management and Incident Reporting Platform Technologies: Excel, SQL, MS SQL Server, Power BI – Used MS SQL Server queries to track and report daily incident counts and operational metrics for the team. – Maintained resource, incident, and audit data in Azure Data Lake Storage, organizing data into raw and curated layers. – Supported data ingestion by moving on-premises operational and incident data into Azure Blob Storage. – Supported ETL workflows and prepared data for Power BI and Excel dashboards, updating metrics in Accenture internal tools (MyWizard and SMART).

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Education

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Master's degree, Information Systems

University of Maryland Baltimore County

20231 yr2024
Vignan institute of technology and science

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Vignan institute of technology and science

20174 yrs2021

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Headline

Data Science Engineer | Driving AI Innovation in Solid Waste Management at Avartan Labs

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

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geminicli

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Work experience

Data Science Engineer at Avartan Labs, Mar 2026 - Present · 8 mos, – Develop, deploy, and optimize AI/ML models for waste segregation, garbage surveillance, and route planning. – Build and manage scalable data pipelines, MLOps workflows, and analytics platforms. – Oversee the complete model lifecycle including data acquisition, feature engineering, training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. – Participate in prototyping, on-site testing, and performance trials to ensure reliability and robustness. – Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, customers, investors, and ecosystem partners to drive product innovation.

Research Data Engineer at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs, Project: Navy Obsolescence Prediction (Post-Graduate contract extension) Technologies: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Databricks, Python, SQL – Built Azure Data Factory pipelines using Copy Data, Lookup, and ForEach activities to ingest high-frequency sensor and voltage data from source systems into Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. – Implemented medallion architecture pipelines using Delta Lake to support analytics and downstream machine learning workflows. – Automated recurring transformation workflows using scheduled triggers, reducing manual data preparation effort by 50%. Project: CO2 Emission Forecasting Pipeline Technologies: Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Python, Deep Learning – Designed end-to-end ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory to ingest, clean, and transform high-frequency time-series sensor data. – Developed PySpark preprocessing workflows involving feature selection, time-series sequence preparation, data reshaping, and output transformation to support LSTM-based modeling. – Assisted with monitoring ADF pipeline runs and alerts, helping ensure timely ingestion of sensor data for analytics. – Published peer-reviewed research titled “A LSTM with Dual-stage Attention Method to Predict Amine Emissions for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage”.

Application Developer at Accenture, Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Project: WEC Energy Resource Management and Incident Reporting Platform Technologies: Excel, SQL, MS SQL Server, Power BI – Used MS SQL Server queries to track and report daily incident counts and operational metrics for the team. – Maintained resource, incident, and audit data in Azure Data Lake Storage, organizing data into raw and curated layers. – Supported data ingestion by moving on-premises operational and incident data into Azure Blob Storage. – Supported ETL workflows and prepared data for Power BI and Excel dashboards, updating metrics in Accenture internal tools (MyWizard and SMART).

Education

Master's degree, Information Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Vignan institute of technology and science