Sundar G

MBA (IIM Kozhikode) with three years in data engineering and product analytics on retailer facing and research data platforms: defined KPIs with stakeholders and built dashboards for Yara’s Digital Solutions, raised a research platform’s usability score from 45 to 70, and built a benchmarked case for a unified reporting platform at Lloyds group

Senior Management Trainee, Leadership Program at Thriveni Earthmovers (Lloyds Metals & Energy group) (2026-06 – Present)

• Identified inconsistent SAP ERP and site reporting across 4 mines via 15+ interviews; built the business case for a unified reporting platform with anomaly detection, benchmarked against Tata Steel’s iROC ($1.4B savings)
• Evaluating a digital twin leak detection solution for a slurry pipeline; defining requirements, SCADA integration fit and success metrics to enable real time leak alerts
• Redesigned pricing for a ₹4,000+ Cr infrastructure project, balancing client affordability, investor returns and lender risk; cut client price ~30% at target returns, enabling project kickoff

Management Intern, Digitalization at JSW Energy (2025-04 – 2025-05)

• Mapped data governance gaps across 130K+ wind, thermal, and solar datasets, including unmonitored cross company access; proposed a framework standardizing ownership, access control, and traceability for audit and security
• Prioritized the governance roadmap, recommending Microsoft Purview for fit with JSW’s Azure stack after a vendor evaluation, with SSOT dashboards and data quality checks to cut metric conflicts by 30%

Data Engineer, Research and Development at Yara Digital Farming India (2021-08 – 2024-06)

• Launched a searchable AWS cloud repository for the agronomy R&D team’s digital transformation, moving research data off local machines; shaped strategy with Gartner analysts, digitalized the codebase (25% to 100%) and secured adoption, lifting researcher productivity by 50%
• Validated the repository through UAT before release, writing test cases for each user access level and edge case and demoing to researchers for feedback; fixed friction points before rollout, helping lift SUS from 45 to 70
• Developed 15+ Power BI dashboards for executive reporting, translating governed transactions into visibility on product growth metrics (GMV, CAC, conversion rate) and engagement metrics (DAU, ARPU)
• Owned ETL/SQL pipelines for 5,000+ daily transactions across B2B retailer apps; improved data accuracy by 20% through data quality checks reconciling app and sales records; wrote 6+ stakeholder defined KPI queries for revenue forecasting
• Automated document extraction in Power Automate using AI assisted OCR to digitize handwritten and scanned records into cloud storage, eliminating manual re-entry and streamlining researchers’ workflow
• Identified a recurring €150K+ annual cost from a third party workflow platform (Comidor); ran a build vs buy cost benefit analysis and led the migration to an in-house cloud platform, eliminating the ongoing fee

Master of Business Administration – Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (2024 – 2026)

International Exchange Semester, MBA – Audencia Business School, France (2025 – 2025)

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering – Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore (2017 – 2021)