Back at Kyndryl now since 2024!

Previous experience during 2020-2021:

  • Type: Spin-off from IBM. A startup with the size and maturity of an MNC
  • Client(s): Airline and Insurance companies based in North America
  • URL: www.kyndryl.com
  • Description: Kyndryl offers managed services, primarily in the computing infrastructure and networking domains to large businesses, which benefit monetarily from the data powered insights provided by these services.

My learnings and contribution

  • In this role, I was able to increase my client interaction and be involved with them from requirement collection to hand over & explainability of AI services.
  • As I slowly expanded to more clients and more product feature requests, I was able to plan reuse and organization of team efforts.
  • This role helped me develop business sense that helps convert ML POCs to business utilities providing cost savings, business intelligence and planning foresight to these businesses.
  • I was also involved in a good amount of stakeholder management and cross-team synergy to ship these products regularly.
  • I was also formally in a mentor and tech lead role, that helped develop my coaching and leadership skills.
  • Being in the middle of a spin-off, we had to re-invent and mature our processes to provide uninterruped service and uncompromised quality to our customers.
  • I was also and IDT (Invention Development Team) member and contributed to the overall IP generation process of the department.
  • The major product line I contributed to was Multi Cloud Management Platform and along with it, several operational management analytics.

Recommendations

Recommendations from people I worked with here:

Sanjana is a great collaborator, innovator, and technical guru. I worked with her on a Data Science team at IBM creating solutions in cloud computing management. Sanjana not only has a deep technical knowledge but also the unique talent of understanding and being able to push product vision. I was continually impressed by her elegant solutions and knowledge of new technologies and academic research. Sanjana was the biggest driver of innovation in our team. She mentored us in patent writing and encouraged team members to explore many invention ideas. Sanjana is an excellent team member and exceptional Data Scientist, and I would be happy to work with her anytime.

Sanjana, you have been truly amazing at all you do, you are excellence beyond par, I like your growth mindset, proactive approach and attitude to go beyond the job and perform in multiple initiatives also build on your technical vitality I was truly amazed at your ability and skill to convert ideas and put them into patents so very quickly That you have been on lecture series on patenting and multiple topics on hyperscalers speaks a lot on your abilities You have added quality to everything we have touched and deserve this award truly and many more to come your way Your MBA degree will further enhance and broaden your perspective and make you a more proficient knowledge specialist. Good Luck !!

I was impressed by Sanjana's ability to handle any situation calmly and patiently, even in the toughest situations. She has proven great experience in the projects that she handles. Her ability to convert the ideas into innovations is truly amazing.She is a great mentor and when it comes to sharing the knowledge, she is a great presenter.

I worked with Sanjana developing a real-time incident resolution system for AIOps. Sanjana has great expertise in the subject matter of NLP and was always willing to help other team members beyond her responsibilities, which proved to be a great catalyst in the success of our project. Moreover, she is well organized, diligent, and a fast learner. All these attributes were critical in meeting the deadlines and KPIs.

Sanjana is a highly dedicated and proficient senior data scientist. She is a very quick learner and well versed in model development for supporting diverse features in multi-cloud management platform. Her application of model building skills is unique and she has researched and built high performing cost optimization models that works well in production. In addition, she is a solid contributor of patents and is a role model for others in the team to pursue. Only with her guidance and support could I submit my first invention work. Being a high end team player she stands out and plays a major role in case of any presentations and infonaut sessions to wider and delivery teams. She always proved to be a super enthusiastic person with ability to pick up any task and deliver with high quality and on time. One such example is her contribution in the MLOPS work including model customization, model serving and monitoring. Data Science being a fast growing and demanding industry sector, I am confident that person like Sanjana will be able to satisfy the needs with her strategic decision-making and technology skills and foster the growth of the project and the organization

Sanjana is future vision NLP enthusiastic and innovative senior data scientist. She has great leadership initiative and quick learning abilities to take up any challenge provide agile solutions at scale, she will definitely brings lots of innovative AI/ML driven solutions with her immense knowledge in area of AI/ ML.