Data, Analytics & Applied AI

I turn data into decisions, and now into AI agents that do the work.

15 years across BI, data engineering and product. I manage a BI team at Amazon Ads, where I led an agentic AI platform on Bedrock AgentCore that saves 50 finance and analytics users 10+ hours each, every week. Outside work, I build AI projects end to end to stay hands-on.

Karthick Govindaraju sitting on a tree over a lake
15 yrsdata, analytics & product
500+ hrssaved every week by an agentic AI platform
$600K/yrcompute cost cut by re-architecting ETL
5,000+users on a BI platform I launched
$5M+/yrsaved through engineering automation

At Amazon Ads

Manager, Business Intelligence for Ads Sales (Twitch Ads, Agency, ADSP, Partner Dev), 2021 to present. I lead a team of 6 BI engineers who own revenue reporting for global Sales, Finance and Compensation teams.

500+ hours saved per week

Agentic AI analytics platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Product lead, end to end

Finance and analytics teams were spending hours every week pulling data, reconciling numbers across sources and rebuilding the same reports. I product-managed an agentic application that does this work for them. A user asks a question or assigns a task in a web app; an agent picks it up in its own isolated AgentCore Runtime session, pulls the data it is allowed to see, computes and reconciles the results, and hands back a CSV, a PDF or an interactive HTML dashboard.

Web appask a question or assign a task
AgentCore Runtimeisolated session per task
Agent toolscustom skills + knowledge bases
Datasetsaccess granted by IAM roles
OutputCSV, PDF or HTML dashboard
  • Defined the problem, requirements and the agent's toolset: custom skills plus knowledge bases.
  • Designed the data-access model on IAM roles, so the agent only reaches datasets a user is entitled to.
  • Rolled it out to 50 finance and analytics users, and each one now saves 10+ hours a week on report generation and reconciliation.
Bedrock AgentCoreAgentic AIKnowledge BasesIAMProduct management
5,000+ users

Enterprise Tableau platform

Led the $2MM Tableau Server launch for Ads Finance: a 4-node cluster on EC2 inside the corporate VPC with SAML SSO and Active Directory permissions. Grew to 200+ dashboards.

$50K/month saved

ETL re-architecture

Moved legacy Redshift SQL jobs to PySpark on EMR, cutting runtime by half and compute cost by $600K a year.

50K advertisers

Advertiser/Agency data migration

Led reconciliation, gap analysis and revenue-impact assessment across 1,000+ partners, with zero reporting disruption.

Before agents: a Claude 3 analytics chatbot

I launched my first GenAI product: a Bedrock + Claude 3 chatbot that answers revenue and performance questions in plain English, so sales leaders get numbers without SQL or digging through dashboards. I also launched 10 self-service dashboards that 1,000+ users rely on.

Personal AI projects

Built in my own time to learn and experiment with agentic AI. These are personal, non-commercial projects, and they are where I prototype ideas before I bring them to work.

Personal project

CleanStay: a property-operations web app with an AI assistant built in

2025 to present · source on GitHub

A full-stack web app for short-term-rental hosts, co-hosts and cleaners. It syncs Airbnb calendars to create cleaning jobs automatically, tracks recurring maintenance, and runs a quote, approval and invoice flow with role-based dashboards for each person involved.

The part I am proudest of is the AI assistant integration. I built an MCP server with OAuth 2.0 so anyone can connect Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini to their account and run things by chatting: "What needs my attention this week?" gets a real answer from their own data.

  • Safe by design: money, messages and deletions need a human tap in the app. A chat message alone can never trigger them, and every assistant action is logged.
  • Real workflows first: I talked to hosts, co-hosts and cleaners, then built features like SMS job links that need no app login.
  • Shipped like production: separate staging and production, one-command deploys, phased end-to-end QA, and 15 auto-generated narrated tutorial videos.
MCP serverOAuth 2.0ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLPrismaDockerTwilio
Family hobby project

Curious Kutties: an AI-assisted video production pipeline

2026 to present · kids' science videos in Tamil and English, made with my family

My family records short science explainers for kids. I automated everything after the recording, so a narration turns into a finished 1080p episode with very little manual editing.

Whispertranscribe
LLMscene plan
Stock APIfind footage
Rendertitles, quizzes
PublishYouTube API
  • Quiz answers are timed to the narrator's word timestamps, and voice and music are mixed with automatic ducking.
  • A companion idea board lets families suggest topics, with three-layer moderation: rules, then LLM vetting for kid safety (English, Tamil, Hindi), then a human review.
PythonWhisperLLM planningFFmpegYouTube Data APIHuman in the loop
Personal project

Home lab: a self-hosted platform run by AI agents

2025 to present

A home server running 30+ containerized services (Postgres/Supabase, Nextcloud, Immich with local machine learning, Jellyfin and several web apps), secured with Cloudflare Tunnel and Zero Trust login, backed up nightly with encryption to Backblaze B2, and protected by a UPS that shuts it down cleanly. Day to day, I run it with Claude Code and MCP servers rather than by hand.

50K photos, 404 GB

Photo library migration

Agent-driven import with 12,158 duplicates removed and full undo logs.

+3,522 photos

Auto-built travel albums

Clustered by date and GPS, with a review step before any change.

to the cent

Family finance pipeline

Google Sheets to Python ETL to a dashboard, with reconciliation checks every month.

DockerLinuxCloudflare Zero TrustClaude CodeMCPrestic

Earlier: Gulfstream Aerospace

Ten years in aerospace, first as a technical program manager and then leading data engineering for the Engineering organization. This is where I learned to automate with data, analytics and plain good engineering, years before generative AI.

80% faster

Recommendation engine for engineers

Market-basket analysis and text similarity over 1M nonconformance records surfaced past fixes for current problems, saving engineers 2+ hours a day.

$5M+ a year

Process automation

Automation projects used by 1,000+ engineers, plus a Redshift data warehouse and Power BI reporting for leadership.

$1M saved

Lean Six Sigma

Led process improvements as a certified Black Belt using hypothesis testing and designed experiments, and drove an ERP rollout bridging IT and the business.

How I build with AI

The rules behind the AgentCore platform at Amazon and my personal AI projects.

Start from the workflow, not the model

Find the hours people lose every week, then decide where an agent helps. The tech choice comes last.

Ground every answer in source-of-truth data

Agents pull from governed datasets and reconcile against the numbers people already trust.

Humans approve what matters

Least-privilege access, approval steps for money and messages, and a log of every action the agent takes.

Measure it in hours and dollars

The AgentCore platform is judged on hours saved every week, not on demos. If it can't be measured, it isn't done.

Skills

AI & agents
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Anthropic Claude, MCP servers, agent tools, prompt engineering, RAG and grounding, evals and guardrails, Whisper
Data & BI
Data warehousing, dimensional modeling, ETL/ELT, data governance, KPI design, Redshift, PySpark on EMR, Airflow, Glue, Athena, Tableau, QuickSight, Power BI
Engineering
Python, SQL, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Flask, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, Docker, Linux, AWS
Product & leadership
Team leadership and hiring, roadmaps, requirements, stakeholder management, vendor negotiation, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
2021
M.S., Computational Data Analytics, Georgia Institute of Technology
2011
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY
2009
B.E., Electronics & Instrumentation, Madras Institute of Technology
Certifications
Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), University at Buffalo · MicroMasters in Analytics, Georgia Tech