Sravan Parakala - Data Science & Analytics

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Promptly Technologies · Troy, NY · Jun 2026 - Present

Built py-lic-dsf: a library with all of the capabilities of the lic-dsf excel template used by the IMF and World Bank

Python

Researcher

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School of Science · Troy, NY · Aug 2025 - Present

Developed ETL pipelines for GTEx co-expression data on AWS and built large-scale graph visualizations using coarsening techniques.

Built ETL pipelines using SQLite and NumPy on AWS EC2 and RDS to process GTEx co-expression data at scale.

Created high-performance graph visualizations that use coarsening techniques to surface meaningful structure in a human-readable format.

Launch Interactive Visualization

Python
NumPy
SQLite
AWS
Graph Viz

Event Organizer

GDG Hudson · Troy, NY · Jan 2025 - Present

Coordinated speakers, resources, and marketing for a multi-track conference serving the Capital District and RPI. Ran workshops and hackathons on data science in Python and cloud deployment on AWS EC2 and GCP Compute Engine.

Leadership
Python
AWS
GCP

Software Developer

ReMo · Remote · May - Sep 2025

Rebuilt the marketing website and deployed it on AWS, eliminating HubSpot dependency and cutting cloud spend 80% year-over-year.

AWS
Web Dev

Data Science Intern

Merck & Co. · Cambridge, MA · May - Aug 2024

Built standardized GitHub Actions that accelerated model deployment from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 days across data science teams.

MLOps
GitHub Actions
Databricks
CI/CD

Graduate Work

Teaching Assistant

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Taught Python fundamentals, logical reasoning, web development, and Git best practices.

Python
Web Dev
Git
Agile

President, GDG on Campus @ RPI

Google Developer Groups · Member -> E-Board -> President

Won the Open Data Hackathon 2025. Organized speaker events and MLOps workshops.

MLOps
Leadership
Community

Foundations of Human Computer Interaction

Design · Cognitive Science · Information Architecture

Learned how to analyze the way information is presented.

I started this class thinking it was entirely pointless to me.

Then we watched a documentary about Helvetica and I ended up in a passionate debate with the professor. Long story short: if you try to imagine a world without design, you will quickly come to a logical contradiction.

Reading Don Norman's "Design for a Better World" reframed how I imagine my technical impact.

Bioinformatics & Sequence Analysis

Computational Biology · Deep Learning · Sequence Data

Coursework that fundamentally changed how I think about computation and biological data.

This work gave purpose to every matrix decomposition and graph theory proof I'd ever done. It felt as though I had spent years learning how to do things to numbers and finally learned what the numbers actually mean.

The idea that biological sequences are just another kind of structured data subject to probabilistic tools reframed my entire approach to data science.

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Undergraduate Work

Spotify Artist Network Dataset

Data Analytics · Python · NetworkX · NLP

Built a social network connecting artists based on Spotify recommendation co-occurrence.

The project started by crawling recommendation paths. I scraped data from artist profile pages to build a behavioral co-occurrence graph.

The dataset revealed dense communities and unexpected bridges between genres. I used node2vec for embeddings and projected them using T-SNE and UMAP into 3D space.

Launch Interactive Visualization Motivation and Methodology

Open Source Contributions

Java · JavaScript · RCOS

UI accessibility for logic engines and building testing infrastructure for energy dashboards.

LEGUP: Most of my contributions focused on making the UI accessible for colorblind users - a feature I ended up needing myself 2 years later.

OED: Built testing infrastructure for an Open Energy Dashboard designed to interface with smart meters via MQTT protocols.

TMC: Led a team of 9 to build a full-stack cross-platform application to display a menu, manage orders, and fulfill deliveries for Thunder Mountain Curry.