Kowshik Kesavarapu
Principal Data Scientist & AI Lead · Innova Solutions

Kowshik Kesavarapu

7+ years building end-to-end ML and Generative AI solutions across enterprise environments.
MSc Data Science, University of Surrey · Based in Hyderabad, India.

I'm a Principal Data Scientist & AI Lead with 7+ years of experience building end-to-end ML and Generative AI solutions across enterprise environments. I hold an MSc in Data Science from the University of Surrey (UK) and a BTech in Computer Science from KL University (India).

Across my career I've shipped 10+ AI solutions — from an Agentic AI platform used daily by 200+ people and an optimization engine saving $2.4M/year, to automation tools delivering 5x productivity gains and NLP systems saving 72 hours of manual work per week. I've worked across supply chain, recruitment tech, traffic systems, and LLM training data pipelines.

Outside of work: food, movies, anime, and whatever's new in tech.

Skills

Programming Python, SQL
ML & AI NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NLTK, RAG, Agentic AI
LLM Frameworks LangChain, LangGraph, Hugging Face, LangFuse, Ollama
Web & APIs Flask, FastAPI
Cloud & Data AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks
Visualization & BI Power BI, Matplotlib, Seaborn
Tools Linux, Git, Docker
Leadership Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder Mgmt, Team Lead (10–12)

Experience

Principal Data Scientist & AI Lead — Innova Solutions

Hyderabad, India  ·  July 2024 – Present

Shipped Shipment Recommendation Engine ($2.4M/year savings), Agentic AI platform consolidating 5 legacy systems for 200+ users, AI Excel Template Analyser (65%→95% accuracy, 5x productivity), Newsletter AI Platform (85% effort reduction), and multiple production RAG chatbots using LangGraph + LangFuse. Spearheaded org-wide GenAI adoption strategy. Led a cross-functional team of 12.

Data Scientist — Cohere

UK  ·  November 2023 – July 2024

Led a team of 10 generating high-quality Python/SQL reasoning datasets for LLM fine-tuning. Designed dataset quality standards and end-to-end curation pipelines feeding directly into Cohere's model training.

Data Scientist — Yunex Traffic

UK  ·  August 2021 – August 2023

Deployed a Naïve Bayes ticket classifier (72 hrs/week saved), real-time license plate detection on edge hardware (OpenCV + Tesseract), a Llama-based conversational agent, and a traffic demand forecasting POC using Prophet/SARIMA.

Analyst — Cognizant Technology Solutions

Hyderabad, India  ·  January 2019 – August 2021

EDA on large-scale insurance datasets, Python pipelines for COBOL 3→4 migration, SQL optimisation on mainframe systems, and data quality fixes improving platform reliability.

Education

MSc Data Science — University of Surrey

Guildford, UK  ·  2021 – 2023

BTech in CSE (Data Engineering) — KL University

Guntur, India  ·  2014 – 2018