Professional Portfolio

Meghana Patakota Portfolio

Comprehensive technical background, detailed project implementations, and in-depth professional experience across data science and AI research

London, UK

Detailed Professional Experience

Comprehensive technical background with detailed project implementations, methodologies, and impact across academia and industry

AI Researcher

Oxford

Remote, UK

Sep 2023 - Present • 2+ years

Current Role

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 oflitigation-relevant archival documents.

AWS Docker CI/CD GraphRAG LLMs
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

Applied Data Scientist

DeepMind

London, UK

May 2025 - Oct 2025 • 6 months

Core Analytics Group

Analytics & AI Solutions

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

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

Principal Data Scientist

Mishcon

London, UK

Feb 2022 - May 2025 • 3+ years

Lead Data Analytics & Reporting Advisor

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.

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
  • • Cerfied 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

Teaching Assistant

UCL

London, UK

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

MSc Business Analytics

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.

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

Data Analyst

Marsh

London, UK

Jun 2021 - Nov 2021 • 6 months

Insurance Analytics

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.

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

Education

Strong academic foundation in business analytics and finance

UCL

MSc Business Analytics

University College London

September 2021

Thesis Focus

Text Classification with DeBERTa: climate-tech, patent data, fine-tuning, evaluation, tokenization, imbalance data handling

Bristol

MSc Accounting & Finance

University of Bristol

September 2020

Focus Areas

Financial analysis, accounting principles, and quantitative methods

Buffalo

BSc Business Administration & BA International Trade

University at Buffalo

July 2019

Dual Degree

Business administration and international trade fundamentals

Technical & Professional Skills

Comprehensive expertise across data science, AI, and cloud technologies

Technical Skills

Data Analysis & Programming

Python SQL Pandas Scikit-learn Statistical Analysis Git Docker

Data Engineering & ETL

ETL/ELT Pipelines API Integration Data Modeling Pipeline Scheduling Data Governance Medallion Architecture

Advanced Analytics

Machine Learning Synapse Analytics Power BI Tableau Looker

Microsoft Analytics Stack

Power BI Azure Synapse SQL Server Azure Data Factory Power Apps Power Automate

AWS Stack

ECS ECR Lambda DynamoDB CloudWatch Route53

Google/PLX Ecosystem

PLX Scripts PLX Workflows PLX Dashboards GoogleSQL SQL Permissions F1 Query

Professional Skills

Data Strategy & Leadership

  • • Data Democratization & Self-Serve Analytics
  • • Data Center of Excellence Management
  • • C-Suite Stakeholder Engagement
  • • Data Strategy Development

Analytics Engineering

  • • Certified Models & Row-Level Security
  • • Report Building & Monitoring
  • • Data Pipeline Architecture
  • • Cross-Department Data Integration

Vendor & Technical Management

  • • API Integration & Vendor Liaison
  • • Technical Discovery & Requirements
  • • Data Quality Standards
  • • Team Management & Mentoring

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
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

Professional References

Available upon request from academic and industry leaders

UCL School of Management UCL School of Management
DA

Ex Programme Director

MSc Business Analytics, UCL School of Management

"It's been a privilege to see Meg's skills evolve over the last 5 years, as she moved from student to practitioner. Data Scientist, AI Researcher are worthy titles but putting aside her leading edge skills, her strength as a highly motivated, 'people centred' collaborator enables her to bring real value to any organisation, team or individual that she works with. I can't recommend her highly enough to any future collaborators."
Oxford Sustainable Law Programme Oxford Sustainable Law Programme
BF

Associate Professor

Climate Litigation Lab, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme

"I highly recommend working with Meghana. Meg has worked with the multidisciplinary research group I lead at Oxford, the Climate Litigation Lab at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, for multiple years, and her contributions have been stellar. She is a great team member, personable and professional, brings impressive technical skills, acquires new skills quickly, and brings strategic leadership and direction to projects. Thank you Meg!"

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.

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Let's Connect

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Professional Inquiries

  • • Lead Analytics Engineer
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  • • Data Strategy Consulting
  • • Technical Advisory

Expertise Areas

  • • Microsoft Analytics Stack
  • • Data Democratization
  • • ETL/ELT Pipeline Design
  • • Cross-Department Integration