Priya Menon
Professional Summary
Data scientist with 4 years of experience building forecasting and churn models in retail. Owns work end to end, from warehouse SQL through model deployment to the dashboards category managers use daily.
Work Experience
- Built a demand forecasting model across 1200 SKUs, reducing stockouts by 18% in the first two quarters.
- Replaced a manual weekly reporting process with an Airflow pipeline, cutting turnaround from 2 days to 3 hours.
- Partnered with four category managers to turn model output into pricing decisions they could act on directly.
- Developed SQL models feeding 12 recurring business reports used across three departments.
- Led the migration of legacy Excel reporting into Power BI, training 20 colleagues on the new dashboards.
Education
Skills
Projects
- Trained a gradient-boosted classifier on 50,000 subscription records, surfacing at-risk accounts 30 days ahead.
Certifications
Talks & Writing
- Spoke on retail demand forecasting at PyData Bengaluru, 2024.