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Rakshan
Anbu /

Lead data analyst and ML engineer. I build the layer between physical assets and the decisions made about them — forecasting failures on the grid edge, pricing risk on half-hourly data, and putting agents to work on the paperwork nobody reads.

Load MW
Risk idx
T−72hPredicted failure window, shadedT+0
Drawn byRakshan Anbu — MSc, BTech (EEE)
DisciplineEnergy · Asset · Risk · ML
BasedLeeds · London · Remote
StatusOpen to lead roles
ContactEmail
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Domains

Six problem spaces
01 / Energy

Generation & networks

Half-hourly settlement, imbalance exposure, dispatch economics, outage impact. Grounded in an electrical engineering background, not just the data model.

02 / Asset

Condition & reliability

Telemetry-driven health scoring, remaining useful life, maintenance prioritisation against a fixed capital envelope.

03 / Risk

Quantified exposure

Control effectiveness, scenario modelling and Monte Carlo tolerance testing, built to an IRM framework rather than a heatmap.

04 / Manufacturing

Shop floor to boardroom

OEE, scrap attribution, takt variance and vision-based defect detection wired straight into commercial reporting.

05 / Public sector

Regulated reporting

Statutory returns, procurement spend, service performance — where the definition of a metric is a legal question as much as a technical one.

06 / Applied ML

Models that ship

Forecasting, computer vision, optimisation and agentic systems, with the monitoring and governance that keeps them alive past week two.

Selected work

07 systems

Helios

Predictive maintenance

Failure forecasting for grid-edge assets. Ten-minute SCADA telemetry, weather reanalysis and work-order history land in a lakehouse, feed a gradient-boosted survival model, and surface as a ranked intervention list — each with the driver that pushed it up the queue, so an engineer can disagree with the model on the evidence.

PythonXGBoostscikit-learnSHAPMicrosoft FabricAzure MLMLflowPower BIDAX
72hMedian warning ahead of failure
0.91AUC on held-out fleet-year

Ledger

Agentic systems

A multi-agent research desk for regulatory change. A planner splits an incoming consultation or licence modification into questions; retrieval agents work a vectorised corpus of policy, contracts and internal controls; a critic agent hunts for unsupported claims before anything reaches a human. Every assertion carries a clause-level citation, and the run graph is replayable.

LangGraphLangChainMCPOllamaClaude APIpgvectorFastAPIDockerPydantic
4h → 20mTurnaround per consultation
100%Claims traced to source clause

Terra

Geospatial twin

A resilience twin for a distribution network. Assets, feeders and customer connections are indexed on an H3 grid and layered against flood, subsidence and heat projections, so a planner can ask what a 1-in-100 event costs in customer-minutes lost and get an answer per substation rather than per region.

ArcGIS ProQGISPostGISGeoPandasH3deck.glSnowflakeTableau
1.2MConnections scored per run
£4.1mReprioritised capital, year one

Meridian

Streaming analytics

Near-real-time imbalance and settlement exposure. Half-hourly market data and metering flows stream through Event Hubs into Snowflake, get reconciled by dbt models with contract terms, and land on a trading-desk view that shows position drift while there is still time to act on it.

KafkaAzure Event HubsSnowflakedbtAirflowSQLPythonPower BIGrafana
90sData to decision latency
48×Settlement periods reconciled daily

Atlas

Data platform & governance

One semantic layer instead of forty conflicting definitions of "availability". Governed metrics are defined once in code, tested on every build, documented with lineage back to source, and exposed to self-serve users who can no longer accidentally invent their own denominator.

Microsoft FabricOneLakeAzure SQLdbtGreat ExpectationsPurviewPower QueryDAXGit
41 → 1Definitions of a core KPI
96%Data quality tests passing at release

Forge

Industrial vision & OEE

A connected production line. Edge cameras run a quantised detection model on-device to catch weld and seal defects at the station rather than at final inspection; MQTT carries cycle and downtime events upstream, where scrap is attributed to shift, tooling and material lot on the same page as margin.

PyTorchYOLOOpenCVONNXMQTTEdge inferenceDatabricksPower BI
+11ptOEE on the pilot cell
18msInference per frame at the edge

Aurora

Optimisation & forecasting

Battery dispatch against a price forecast. A probabilistic day-ahead price model feeds a mixed-integer schedule that respects state of charge, degradation cost and grid service commitments, then a reinforcement-learning agent trades the intraday gap the deterministic plan leaves behind.

PythonPuLPProphetPyTorchStable-Baselines3NumPyPandasStreamlit
+9.4%Revenue over rule-based dispatch
2.1%Day-ahead forecast MAPE

Stack

Outlined = daily driver
A

Languages & querying

PythonSQLT-SQLDAXM / Power QueryRBashGit
B

Analysis & modelling

PandasNumPyscikit-learnXGBoostPyTorchstatsmodelsSHAPMLflowMonte Carlo
C

Platforms & warehousing

Microsoft FabricAzure SQLOneLakeSnowflakeDatabricksSynapsePostgreSQLAzure ML
D

Pipelines & engineering

ETL / ELTdbtAirflowData FactoryKafkaEvent HubsDockerGitHub ActionsFastAPI
E

Visualisation

Power BITableauPlotlyGrafanadeck.glStreamlitExcel (MOS)
F

Geospatial

ArcGIS ProQGISPostGISGeoPandasH3Shapely
G

AI & agents

LangGraphLangChainMCPOllamaRAGpgvectorCrewAIPrompt evaluation
H

Governance & domain

Data modellingData governancePurviewGreat ExpectationsIRM risk frameworkEnergy InstituteAsset management

Track

Where the practice was built
Jan 2025 — Present · Leeds

Data Analyst — Energy, Asset and Risk

PVRN Ltd

Own the analytics layer across energy consumption, asset performance and operational risk: Azure SQL and Fabric pipelines feeding Power BI models that the business actually runs on, plus the data quality and definition work that keeps those numbers defensible.

Aug 2024 — Jan 2025 · UK

Team Member — Business and Operations

BPNC UK Ltd

Worked within the business and operations team, rebuilding operational reporting from spreadsheets into modelled, automated dashboards, and turning process bottlenecks into measured cost and cycle-time cases for change.

Jan 2023 — Mar 2023 · India

Project Leader

Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Ltd

Led a project team inside a state-owned lignite mining and thermal generation operator — first-hand exposure to generation plant, load behaviour and the engineering constraints behind the data.

Education · Postgraduate

MSc International Business

University of Leeds — United Kingdom

Strategy, international markets and organisational decision-making. The half of the job that decides whether an analysis ever changes anything.

Education · Undergraduate

Bachelor of Technology — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University — India

Power systems, machines, control and signals. The reason asset telemetry reads as physics to me rather than as columns.

Membership

Institute of Risk Management

IRM — Member

Risk taxonomy, control effectiveness and appetite framing applied to operational and asset risk.

Membership

Energy Institute

EI — Member

Continuing professional development across generation, networks and the energy transition.

Certification

Microsoft Office Specialist

MOS — Associate

Certified on Excel and the Microsoft productivity stack, which is still where a surprising amount of real analysis starts.

Contact

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Let's talk
about the hard one

Best conversations start with the problem you haven't been able to measure yet. Based in Leeds and London, and happy working fully remote.

Direct — and only work.rakshan@gmail.com

Email me and you'll hear back inside 24 hours. Even a silly one. Especially a silly one — that's usually where the good conversations start.

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