AI Engineer @ Academy Sports + Outdoors

Hi, I'm Aradhya Agrawal.

I build Agents and AI Systems.

Data enthusiast turned AI Engineer. Master's in Big Data Analytics from SDSU. Ex-Amazon. 3+ years turning complex data into decisions that move the needle.

01. About

My journey started with a Master's in Big Data Analytics from San Diego State University, where I fell in love with the intersection of statistics and technology.

Currently at Academy Sports + Outdoors, I lead the development of scalable AI and data solutions — building intelligent pipelines, deploying ML models, and driving real business impact. A career highlight: optimizing SQL queries across 70 billion rows of customer data, improving query performance by 80%.

Before that, I sharpened my ML expertise as a Data Scientist at Amazon, where I improved sales predictions by 12% and contributed to a projected $5M revenue increase.

Beyond the day job, I'm driven by tech with purpose — I've analyzed satellite imagery to detect plastic debris in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

3+
Years Experience
70B+
Rows Optimized
100+
A/B Campaigns
$5M
Revenue Impact

02. Experience

AI Engineer

Mar 2026 — Present
Academy Sports + Outdoors · Houston, TX

Designing and deploying AI agents and production-grade LLM systems. Building intelligent automation pipelines that bridge analytics and engineering.

Data Analyst

Feb 2024 — Mar 2026
Academy Sports + Outdoors · Houston, TX
  • Optimized SQL across 70B+ rows in BigQuery, improving query performance by 80%.
  • Built CLV, propensity (KNN), and logistic regression models — 3.2x lift vs random targeting.
  • Led hypothesis testing across 100+ campaigns, lifting conversion by 15%.
  • Supported ML-driven Media Mix Model, cutting inefficient spend by 20%.

Research Assistant (Analytics Engineer)

Jun 2023 — Feb 2024
San Diego State University · San Diego, CA
  • Automated ETL pipeline processing 20–40 GB/day to AWS S3.
  • Engineered YOLOv3 defect detection model — cut manual inspection by 60%.
  • Deployed Random Forest model on AWS — drove 9% sales increase.

Data Engineer

Sep 2022 — May 2023
Motionworks International · San Diego, CA
  • Designed state-level spatial data model — 50% faster query times.
  • Built Airflow + PySpark pipelines ingesting 1M+ rows/day into BigQuery.
  • Trip classification model (Random Forest + XGBoost) — 82% accuracy.

Data Scientist

May 2022 — Aug 2022
Amazon · Seattle, WA
  • Improved sales predictions by 12% — projected $5M revenue increase.
  • Embedded lost sales prediction model into inventory management system.
  • A/B tested vs baseline — reduced stockout errors by 15–20%.

03. Projects

AI Automation

AI Workflow Automation & Chatbot

No-code automation in n8n (Trigger → Nodes → Action) reducing manual effort by 50%+. AI-powered e-commerce chatbot ingesting 1,000+ product records with OpenAI + webhook triggers — 90%+ accuracy.

n8nOpenAIWebhooksPrompt Engineering
Data Pipeline

Research Data Pipeline (OpenAlex)

End-to-end pipeline ingesting 5K+ OpenAlex records into Neon (PostgreSQL) with sub-second queries. Streamlit dashboard with indexed SQL queries — improved analysis time by 60%.

PythonPostgreSQLStreamlitNeon
Computer Vision · UN SDG

Plastic Debris Detection (Satellite)

YOLOv3-based debris detection on 500+ daily satellite images stored on AWS S3. Decreased manual inspection costs by 90%+ in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals.

YOLOv3PyTorchAWS S3Web Scraping

04. Skills

AI / ML

LLMsAI AgentsPrompt EngineeringMCP TensorFlowKerasScikit-learnPyTorch NLPDeep LearningYOLOv3

Data Engineering

Apache SparkPySparkAirflowKafka BigQueryHadoopETLMapReduce

Cloud & Platforms

AWSGCPAzureDocker StreamlitGitHub

Languages & DBs

PythonSQLRC++ PostgreSQLMySQLRedisOracle

Visualization & BI

TableauPower BILookerLooker Studio MatplotlibPlotly

Analytics

A/B TestingStatistical ModelingCustomer Analytics Data StrategySystem DesignSpatial Analytics

Recognition

MVP Award — Academy Sports + Outdoors · Jun 2025

Get in Touch

I'd like to hear from you!

If you have any inquiries, want to collaborate on an AI project, or just want to say hi — please use the form.

agrawalaradhya121@gmail.com +1 (724) 647-8390
Houston, TX · Open to Relocate
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