Data & AI

Shriharsha
Konda

A decade in data analytics and engineering. Now building AI Systems and scaling Appweave Labs.

About

Building at the intersection of data engineering and AI

I'm Shriharsha — 10 years in the data world, starting as a Marketing Effectiveness Analyst in India, moving to London as an Energy Pricing Analyst, then evolving into a Data Scientist and finally a Senior Data Engineer.

At Start.io, I spent 5 years growing from Data Analyst to Senior Data Engineer, built ML models, NLP systems, and scaled the India data team from 2 to 10. Before that, I spent 5+ years at EXL Service working with a UK energy client — building CLV models, churn prediction systems, and pricing optimisation tools.

Now I run Appweave Labs, a software services company. Based in Bangalore.

10+
Years in Data & Analytics
2→10
Team scaled at Start.io
3
Countries worked across
1
Company founded
Skills & Tools
PythonSQLRSparkDockerAWSOCIGitJenkinsPandasscikit-learnLangChainStreamlitFlaskXGBoostNLPRAGHadoopPowerBIQGIS
Experience

Where I've been

2024 — Present
Co-founder & COO
Appweave Labs
Leading sales, marketing, hiring, product strategy, and AI Engineering at a software services company focused on Data Engineering and AI Automation. Primary client: Collected Solutions Inc. (US).
2021 — 2026
Data Analyst → Senior Data Engineer
Start.io · Bengaluru, India
Built JSON-to-SQL translation for MAIA — the industry’s first NLP-powered audience platform. Developed clustering algorithms on OCI for POI identification, gender/age prediction models using text embeddings and XGBoost, and a RAG-based LLM for web page taxonomy classification. Scaled the India data team from 2 to 10.
2018 — 2021
Services SME & Value Modeller
EXL Service · London, UK
Built a Customer Lifetime Value model estimating discounted cash flow over 5 years using gamma-distributed GLMs for cost-to-serve and logistic regression for churn prediction. Created an R Shiny text analytics tool using LDA topic modelling. Mentored a team of 5 offshore analysts. Owned the Bundles Proposition product line.
2017 — 2018
Energy Pricing Analyst
EXL Service · London, UK
Built sales forecasting and market share models for energy product pricing. Realized £440k value upside by optimising acquisition pricing. Built a churn prediction model with 82% cumulative lift, reducing customer churn by 3pp through pre-engagement strategies.
2015 — 2017
Marketing Effectiveness Analyst
EXL Service · Gurgaon, India
Optimised inbound and outbound campaigns by defining and monitoring KPIs. Carried out impact assessments and market opportunity sizing for cross-sell campaigns. Analysed loyalty programs and helped design personalised customer reward offers.
2011 — 2015
B.Tech, Electronics & Communication
University of Allahabad
Projects

Things I've built

AI Framework Finder
An AI-powered recommendation engine that helps developers choose the right agentic AI framework for their project. Built with Streamlit and Gemini.
PythonStreamlitGemini AI
Solana Portfolio Tracker
A tool for checking portfolio value on the Solana blockchain. Enter a wallet’s public key and get a real-time breakdown of holdings.
SolanaPythonWeb3
Tax Comparator Tool
Compare tax liability under 44ADA (freelancer) vs salaried employment under India’s new tax regime. Built for professionals exploring contract work.
StreamlitFinanceIndia Tax
Overture Maps POI Explorer
Commercial product exploration built on Overture Maps Foundation POI data. Geospatial data visualization and analysis for location intelligence.
GeospatialDataMaps
Blog

Writing & thinking

Contact

Let's work together

Looking for a data engineering partner or AI automation for your business? I'd love to hear about your project.