Mrudula Ranganatha | Sr Manager, Business Analyst

Mrudula Ranganatha

Sr Manager, Business Analyst

Based in Walmart Inc.

About

Data & AI leader with 6+ years of experience driving large-scale analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions across retail, supply chain, and enterprise platforms. Proven track record of translating complex business problems into data-driven strategies that have delivered over $43M in cost savings, improved operational KPIs, and accelerated executive decision-making through predictive modeling, optimization, and AI-powered automation. Experienced in leading cross-functional initiatives, building scalable ETL and ML pipelines, developing executive dashboards, and partnering with VP/SVP stakeholders to influence strategic decisions. Passionate about combining advanced analytics, experimentation, and generative AI to solve high-impact business challenges and deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Projects

Ask Away - Article Analyzer

'Ask Away' is an intuitively crafted LLM research tool, seamlessly engineered for the retrieval of information. Empowering users to input article URLs and pose inquiries, it facilitates the extraction of relevant insights from the articles with utmost ease and efficiency.

Movie Recommendation System

The system tailors recommendations based on user profiles. New users receive suggestions through weighted recommendation, highly active users benefit from User-based Collaborative recommendation, and less active users receive tailored recommendations using Hybrid Recommendation with LightFM.

Real Estate Forecasting

Performed EDA and forecasted Real Estate trend for 3 months into future using ARIMA, SARIMA, XGBoost. The trends and seasonality was analyzed using Matplotlib and Seaborn visualization.

FIFA - EDA

This project endeavors to comprehensively investigate the FIFA dataset through the utilization of SQL. The intricacies of the dataset were meticulously scrutinized by executing queries on an Oracle database, aiming to understand the nuanced dynamics of football analytics

Covid-19 Layoffs

A comprehensive Tableau dashboard has been meticulously crafted to illuminate the landscape of layoffs during COVID-19 pandemic. This insightful data visualization delves into various dimensions, offering a nuanced understanding of the impact on companies, industries, and geographies.

World Indices

Web scraped data from multiple sources using BeautifulSoup and provided intuitive insights using Tableau. Data obtained include: crime index, safety index, quality of life index, purchasing power index, cost of living index and unemployment rate of each country over a decade.