Pragith Prakash

AI Forward Deployed Engineer, consultant and educator

Data and software experience since 2012. Recent work includes eighteen months owning architecture and production delivery for an enterprise AI assistant.

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Professional experience

November 2021 to present

AI and data engineering engagements

Vriksh Consulting Services Inc. · Consulting

I design and build AI and data systems and support them in production. My work includes eighteen months owning architecture and production delivery for an enterprise AI assistant. The data platforms I supported handled multi-terabyte datasets and hundreds of automated pipelines.

January to November 2021

Quality & Technical Services Manager / Lead R&D Data Scientist

Sofvie · Employment

I led technical quality and applied data research, including cloud data workflows and delivery automation.

June 2018 to January 2021

Staff Consultant → Senior Consultant

Dentsu / Merkle Cardinal Path · Employment

Staff Consultant, June 2018 to January 2020; promoted to Senior Consultant, January 2020 to January 2021. My work covered enterprise analytics and cloud data consulting.

March 2017 to June 2018

Consultant, Data Science

EY · Employment

I worked on data science and analytical processing for forensic and regulatory work, with client and dataset details kept confidential.

November 2015 to March 2017

Data Scientist

Wipro · Employment

I built analytical systems over operational and log data, working on modelling, implementation and performance investigation.

June 2012 to November 2015

Early data and software roles

SMART FBO, Hibu and Sigmoid

My early work spanned reporting, backend development and real-time analytics using Python, SQL, R and distributed processing.

Teaching and community

  • Correlation One · 2021 to 2024 · Lead instructor, Walmart Data Science Bootcamp and DS4A.
  • Cambrian College · 2020 to 2024 · Adjunct / Partial Load Professor.
  • Google Developer Groups · 2020 to present · Chapter Lead.

Selected skills

Python, SQL and R; data pipelines and cloud analytics; AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Databricks; AI integration, release automation and production support.

Certifications

  • Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
  • Databricks Certified Generative AI Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Education

MBA, International Business · ICFAI, Bangalore · 2013 to 2015.

BE, Information Technology · CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore · 2007 to 2012.