Ashish Parida

Team Leadership & Output Quality: Named Star Performer 11x in 45 days and Substitute Team Lead; validated 12,000+ data rows maintaining a 4.2/5 client rating.

Algorithmic Error Reduction: Executed SFT and RLHF evaluations across 7,000+ dataset pairs, reducing model output logic errors by 36%.

Structured Data & Schema Auditing: Executed preference ranking and data validation across 25+ tabular schemas, maintaining a 98.4% SLA compliance rate.

Associate (LLM Post Training) at Ethara AI (2026-06 – Present)

• Team Leadership & Output Quality: Named Star Performer 11x in 45 days and Substitute Team Lead; validated 12,000+ data rows maintaining a 4.2/5 client rating.
• Algorithmic Error Reduction: Executed SFT and RLHF evaluations across 7,000+ dataset pairs, reducing model output logic errors by 36%.
• Structured Data & Schema Auditing: Executed preference ranking and data validation across 25+ tabular schemas, maintaining a 98.4% SLA compliance rate.
• System Alignment & Reliability: Formulated 450+ SFT datasets and audited outputs for edge-case accuracy, improving output consistency by 45% at a 96.5% benchmark.

Strategy Intern at BRITHA AI (2026-02 – 2026-04)

• Pricing & Value Modeling: Modeled value propositions capturing a 72% efficiency gap to cut customer costs by 89%, establishing pricing strategies for a $7B SMB market.
• Unit Economics & Performance Analysis: Validated 76% gross margin infrastructure with a 15:1 LTV:CAC ratio and 2-month payback period across 1,000+ customer data points.
• GTM & Funnel Optimization: Accelerated B2B conversion cycles to 14 days, managing onboarding funnels (89% deliverability, 4.2% reply) to secure 25 net-new customers/month at a 25% trial-to-paid rate.

Team Lead – Consulting (Live Project) at ModCave Shelter Tech (2025-03 – 2025-07)

• Strategic Leadership & GTM: Selected as 1 of 40 candidates to lead a consulting team reporting directly to the founding CEO, mapping 13 sectors and structuring Go-to-Market strategies.
• Hospitality Revenue Diagnostics: Evaluated hospitality sector trends, analyzing key metrics like 89%–91% YoY RevPAR growth and 60%–67% occupancy rates to target a $247.3B market (13.96% CAGR).
• Market Opportunity Analysis: Modeled high-margin opportunities (15%–30% margins) across a $1.1T global market (6.4% CAGR), identifying 2 key utility segments for expansion.

Finance Intern at Paradeep Phosphates Ltd. (PPL) (2024-07 – 2024-07)

• Performance Benchmarking: Modeled competitor metrics (vs. MCFL), isolating drivers behind a 17.87% ROE (40% above benchmark) and 11.78% ROCE across 2 major firms.
• Trend & Variance Diagnostics: Investigated root causes behind a 308% cost surge (₹6,151 Cr to ₹25,151 Cr) and audited a ₹701,516 Cr asset portfolio to boost liquidity by 8.15%
• Seasonal Logic Modeling: Analyzed seasonal market cycles (Kharif/Rabi) across 2 distinct cycles on a ₹13,340 Cr revenue stream, translating complex variable inputs into actionable insights

B.A.(Hons) in Business Economics (BBE) – Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, Delhi University (2023 – 2026)

CBSE (Class XII) in Science (physics, chemistry, mathematics) – DAV Public School, C.S. Pur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (2022 – 2023)

CBSE (Class X) – DAV Public School, C.S. Pur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (2019 – 2020)