Meghana Patakota

Analytics Leader • Data Scientist • AI Solutions

Building intelligent systems and data-driven solutions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and business strategy

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5+

Years Experience

6

Organisations

4

Academic Degrees

London, UK
Meg Patakota

Experience & Expertise Built At

Honed skills and delivered impact at world-class organisations

ERM University of Oxford Mishcon de Reya Google DeepMind Marsh ERM University of Oxford Mishcon de Reya Google DeepMind Marsh

Academic Background

University College London

MSc Business Analytics · 2021

University of Bristol

MSc Accounting & Finance · 2020

University at Buffalo

BSc Business Admin & BA Intl Trade · 2019

Latest Article

Latest October 2025 • 6 min read

Building a Production‑Ready Analytics Stack

A hands-on, production-minded scaffold with PostgreSQL, dbt, Flyway, Docker, and pgAdmin.

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Career Journey

Professional Experience

Building data-driven solutions across consulting, tech giants, and academia

2026
ERM

AI Solutions Manager

ERM • London, UK

Jan 2026 - Present

Process Automation & Delivery

Translate business pain points into technical requirements, scope automation, and partner with developers to deliver solutions while keeping stakeholders aligned.

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Delivery & Governance
  • Process mapping & automation prioritization
  • Solution patterns catalog and guardrails
  • Stakeholder comms & change readiness
Technical Enablement
  • Requirements to developer handoff
  • UAT coordination and rollout
  • Value tracking and adoption metrics
Process Automation AI Solutions Business Analysis Stakeholder Comms
2023
Oxford

Consultant (Data & AI)

University of Oxford • Remote, UK

Sep 2023 - Present • 2+ years

CLARA: Corporate Litigation Research Assistant

Co-created an autonomous agent to support corporate litigation and accountability research by searching a knowledge base of 1.2 million+ pages of litigation-relevant archival documents.

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Infrastructure & Deployment
  • Automated AWS-based deployments (ECR, ECS, Lambda)
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline
  • Streamlit app for usage stats monitoring
Data Pipeline
  • SageMaker for data processing
  • Dagster for data pipeline orchestration
  • ETL for chatbot data analysis
AWS Docker CI/CD GraphRAG LLMs ECS ECR Lambda DynamoDB CloudWatch Route53
2025
DeepMind

Applied Data Scientist

Google DeepMind • London, UK

May 2025 - Oct 2025 • 6 months

Analytics & AI Solutions

Part of the Core Analytics Group, applying data analytics and AI to drive insights across people, culture, and organisational health.

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Key Responsibilities
  • Worked with people, talent, performance & evaluation data
  • Built secure, permission-aware data tables to support reporting
  • MVP of 2 specialized AI agents with AI Studio
PLX Ecosystem & Tools
  • PLX Scripts
  • PLX Workflows
  • GoogleSQL & F1 Query
PLX Scripts PLX Workflows PLX Dashboards GoogleSQL F1 Query
2022
Mishcon

Principal Data Scientist

Mishcon de Reya • London, UK

Lead Analytics Advisor

Feb 2022 - May 2025 • 3+ years

Enterprise Data Transformation

Served as the lead data science & analytics advisor to the firm, engaging with C-suite leadership to drive data-driven decision-making. Delivered the firm's first business operations KPIs report by capturing key KPIs across all functions.

70%

Report Reduction

10+

Certified Models

20%

Self-Serve Adoption

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Cloud Infrastructure & Data Migration
  • Led SSRS to Power BI migration
  • SQL Server to Azure Synapse cloud migration
  • Single source of truth establishment
  • 70% reduction in report redundancy
Data Democratization & Self-Serve
  • Led Data Center of Excellence
  • Self-serve analytics implementation
  • Increased adoption of centralised reporting
  • Cross-department data integration
Technical Leadership
  • C-suite stakeholder engagement
  • Data strategy development
  • Line management & mentoring
  • Vendor & API integration
Analytics & Insights
  • Certified data models across 10+ functions
  • Client segmentation (RFM)
  • Time forecasting & ML exploration
  • Data governance automation
Cross-Department Data Integration
People & HR
  • • Talent, performance, evaluation data
  • • Attrition & headcount analytics
  • • Gallagher system integration
Finance & Legal
  • • Billing, debtors, cash receipts
  • • Legal matters data
  • • Matter partner analytics
Business Development
  • • Client segmentation & retention
  • • Marketing analytics framework
  • • HubSpot & GA4 integration
Power BI Azure Synapse SQL Server Azure Data Factory Power Apps Power Automate
2019
UCL

Teaching Assistant

UCL School of Management • London, UK

Oct 2021 - Feb 2025 • 3+ years (part-time)

Academic Support & Teaching

Supported teaching and marking in MSc Business Analytics modules at UCL School of Management, working with academic module leads through delivery of small group teaching and coursework assessment.

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Teaching Responsibilities
  • Seminar/workshop facilitation
  • Weekly office hours
  • Coursework assessment & marking
  • Student feedback provision
Module Support
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Data Engineering
  • Programming with Python
  • Predictive Analytics
Marketing Analytics Data Engineering Python Predictive Analytics
Marsh

Data Analyst

Marsh • London, UK

Jun 2021 - Nov 2021 • 6 months

Claims Analysis & Process Automation

Focused on claims analysis and provided insights reports requested by clients upon analyzing data received via several insurance companies. Automated manual analysis processes using Python tools.

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Key Achievements
  • 50% reduction in report generation time
  • Automated manual analysis processes
  • Large insurance dataset manipulation
  • Client insights report generation
Technologies Used
  • Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivots, Macros)
  • Python (Pandas, PyExcel)
  • Data manipulation & cause-mapping
  • Cross-insurance company data analysis
Python Pandas Excel Data Analysis

Featured Projects

Key projects showcasing technical expertise and business impact

Live Project Oxford Research

CLARA: Corporate Litigation Research Assistant

An advanced AI research agent powered by LLMs and hybrid GraphRAG technology, transforming how researchers access and analyze 1.2M+ pages of litigation-relevant archival documents.

End-to-end AWS deployment (ECS, ECR, Lambda, DynamoDB)
Automated CI/CD pipeline with Docker & GitHub Actions
Advanced data pipeline: OCR, entity extraction, embeddings
AWS Docker GraphRAG LLMs Python
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Enterprise Data Democratization

Microsoft Analytics Platform Migration

Led enterprise-wide migration from legacy SSRS to Power BI, establishing data democratization and self-serve analytics across all business functions.

70% reduction in report redundancy
20% of business ops teams enabled for self-serve
Cross-department data integration (HR, Finance, Legal)
Power BI Azure Synapse SQL Server ETL/ELT Data Governance

Open Source Projects

Additional projects and contributions available on GitHub

GitHub Portfolio

Explore additional projects including AI-powered conversational agents, GenAI recommendation services, and environmental data tools.

10+ Repositories 5+ Languages Active Contributions
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Professional References

Available upon request from academic and industry leaders

UCL School of Management

Ex Programme Director

MSc Business Analytics, UCL School of Management

"It's been a privilege to see Meg's skills evolve. Her strength as a 'people centred' collaborator enables her to bring real value..."
Oxford Sustainable Law Programme

Associate Professor

Climate Litigation Lab, Oxford

"I highly recommend working with Meghana. Her contributions have been stellar—personable, professional, with impressive technical skills..."

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