Water. Earth. Fire. Air.

Portrait of Akshay Kumar Mundrathi

Akshay Kumar Mundrathi

Business & Data Analyst · Applied AI/ML Researcher, bending raw data into decisions.

Long ago, data and business lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the spreadsheets attacked. My journey began with a childhood question about how computers think, answered in binary, and grew into an All-India Rank of 5024 among a million JEE aspirants, a CS degree at NIT Warangal, a master's at Oklahoma State, and a first paper presented at IEEE FUZZ 2023 in Incheon, South Korea. I build intelligent systems where machine learning, data science, and optimization meet: robust, explainable, and pointed at real-world problems.

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Book One

The Journey So Far

Junior Business Analyst · seeking my next nation

I support consultants and technical teams through every stage of a project: design, architecture, development, configuration, and deployment; and translate between business partners and technology teams so nothing is lost in the fog of war.

Research Assistant - Well-Records Digitization · OSU Boone Pickens School of Geology (Jul 2025 – present)

Inherited a one-PDF-at-a-time research prototype and carried it to a production pipeline digitizing 570K+ historical Oklahoma well records under Prof. Priyank Jaiswal (DOE Anadarko Basin Carbon Management Hub): 51K+ wells live on an interactive map, poster presented at AAPG Tulsa 2026. Read the case study →

Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant · Oklahoma State University (Jan – May 2025)

Supported research and instruction while finishing my master's; TA for Discrete Mathematics, leading class discussions, grading, and mentoring students. Where the theory met the chalkboard.

Data Analyst · Cognizant (Aug 2022 – Jun 2023)

Built and deployed data-driven solutions with Python and SQL; created dashboards and reports in Excel with advanced macros; managed multiple initiatives independently and presented findings to senior leadership.

Training Grounds

M.S. Computer Science - Oklahoma State University (2023–2025), GPA 3.64
B.Tech Computer Science - National Institute of Technology, Warangal (2019–2023)

Book Two

Projects

Each one a battle. Each one a lesson.

🪨 Earth · flagship

Oklahoma Well Records - Digitization Pipeline

Research project digitizing 570,953 scanned oil & gas well records (1911–2024): OCR, OpenCV grid detection, and U-Net segmentation resolve each well against a 4.5M-cell PLSS PostgreSQL database, with human-in-the-loop corrections applied automatically via GitHub Actions. ~4,900 wells on a live map and growing. Literally bending earth data.

🪨 Earth

Cloud Data Warehouse & ETL Automation

Medallion-architecture warehouse on SQL Server + Azure Data Factory integrating 10+ sources: cut manual prep 60%, improved pipeline efficiency 40%, with star-schema models and real-time Power BI dashboards.

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🔥 Fire · lightning

Spiking Neural Networks - Financial Time Series

Master's research into biologically-plausible computation: S&P 500 index segments encoded as spike trains and classified with LIF and Izhikevich neuron simulations; thesis, poster, and full simulation code in the repo.

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💧 Water

MovieMatch - Full-Stack Recommendation Engine

React + TypeScript frontend with a Python Flask REST API that recommends movies from the MovieLens 100K dataset by matching user demographics to similar viewers; data processing with Pandas and NumPy.

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💧 Water

Cricket Analytics - Scraping to Power BI

End-to-end analytics flow: scraping live cricket statistics with BeautifulSoup, cleaning and shaping in Pandas, and delivering interactive Power BI dashboards for trend analysis.

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🌬️ Air

Text Analytics - Cricket Role Clustering

NLP pipeline clustering players into batsmen, bowlers, and fielders from free-text descriptions: TF-IDF (1–3 grams), StandardScaler, then PCA and t-SNE projections; reading the wind in unstructured text.

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Book Three

Bending Arts

Four disciplines. One analyst.

💧 Waterbending

Flow & adaptability: analytics

  • Data modeling & data mining
  • Data visualization
  • Power BI & Tableau dashboards

🪨 Earthbending

Solid foundations: data engineering

  • SQL & SQL Server
  • ETL & data warehousing
  • Excel (advanced macros)

🔥 Firebending

Power & precision: code

  • Python & R
  • Machine learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
  • Computer vision (OpenCV, U-Net, OCR)
  • LLMs & prompt engineering
  • Azure (Data Factory, cloud deployment)

🌬️ Airbending

Freedom & communication: process

  • Agile & Waterfall
  • Requirements gathering & process design
  • NLP & text analytics
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Microsoft Visio

Epilogue

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