Independent Data & AI Consultant

Hi, I'm Diggy

Digvijay Ghotane

a Data Scientist

I build the pipelines that move data, the models that learn from it, and the analysis that turns it into decisions.

Digvijay Ghotane
Now 2023 — Present

Independent Contractor

Working at the intersection of large-scale data-pipeline engineering and AI evaluation — leading a small team building and operating data-quality and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI and agent systems.

Available for freelance work.

Professional Experience 2021 — 2023

DIA Associates

Analyst · New York, NY

U.S. Global Commercial Services — a Fortune-500 payments firm:

• Forecasting model that lifted customer-spend targets ~30% YoY.

• Weekly/monthly reporting (leader performance, revenue, Covid-19) — a 100% visibility gain.

• Improved ~10% of accounts via Rolling-12 spend & margin analysis.

• LLM classifier (~85% accuracy) separating real engagement from ad-hoc tasks.

Research & Fellowships Summer 2021

UVA · Biocomplexity Institute

Data Science for Public Good Fellow · Arlington, VA

• Led 2 interns building a real-time NLP/LLM pipeline to classify innovation from news for the National Science Foundation. Learn more.

• Built an Arlington County park-access equity dashboard with the county government. Learn more.

Rewind — the Friday before DIA began (Aug 9, 2021) was the last day of this fellowship (Aug 8). The research years start here.

Research & Fellowships Spring 2021

The World Bank

Data Publication Intern, DIME · Washington, DC

Cleaned, wrangled, and translated (Portuguese → English) country-governance survey data — 3 datasets, ~3,200 variables — in STATA, for analysis of irrigation-led development in an African country.

Research & Fellowships Spring 2021

Georgetown · Massive Data Institute

Washington, DC

Built an AWS Lambda OCR pipeline parsing DC housing-eviction court records into a structured dataset, supporting analysis of the socio-economic factors behind DC evictions — the applied-engineering counterpart to the published research below.

Research & Fellowships 2020 — 2021

Georgetown University

Teaching Assistant — Intro to Data Science (Prof. Brodnax) · Washington, DC

Supported instruction and mentored students for the graduate Introduction to Data Science course.

Research & Fellowships Summer 2020

The World Resources Institute

Data Science Intern, Climate · Washington, DC

Compiled disparate sources into a normalized dataset quantifying water use of ~500 thermoelectric plants across North America & Europe.

Research & Fellowships 2019 — 2021

Georgetown University

Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. C. Christine Fair · Washington, DC

• Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in Small Wars & Insurgencies (2021): Did India's demonetization policy curb stone-pelting in Indian-administered Kashmir?

• Companion article at Gateway House (2021): Linking demonetization and stone-pelting.

• Created a stone-pelting time-series dataset for J&K — 608 Harvard Dataverse downloads.

• Tabulated Pakistani household-survey data in STATA (education vs. income).

Education 2019 — 2021

Georgetown University

MS, Data Science for Public Policy · GPA 3.59/4

McCourt School of Public Policy. Coursework spanning statistics, data science I–III, data visualization & GIS, massive data, and computational linguistics — with the merit-based Graduate School Financial Aid Award.

The communication & leadership thread continued here: teaching assistant (above), SAPRI Treasurer, and GradGov Senator.

Education 2015 — 2019

Mumbai University

BE, Electronics & Telecommunication · GPA 6.42/10

Where the communication & leadership roots took hold — ~50 Model UN conferences and two years (2017–2019) as a freelance communication-skills trainer at SkillSphere Education.

Hall of Fame (2018–19); built a Bluetooth-controlled Arduino medication dispenser; Debate Coordinator running 1,000+-participant conferences.

What I work with

Competencies

Languages & Tools

  • Python
  • SQL
  • PySpark
  • Hive
  • R
  • STATA
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Methods & Techniques

  • Machine learning
  • LLM classifiers
  • OCR pipelines
  • Data visualization
  • Dashboards
  • A/B testing
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Statistical modeling
  • Public-equities breakout analysis

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Marathi
  • Hindi

Working Style

  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Memos & documentation
Get in Touch with me

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Digvijay Ghotane

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Email: digvijay.ghotane@gmail.com
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