AI Consultant · Dallas, Texas

Piyush Kumar

PhD, Industrial Engineering · 12+ years building decision systems

I help companies put AI into the decisions that move their numbers, and prove that it did. Most of my career has been spent inside large operations: supply networks, store fleets and pricing desks, where a model only counts once people trust it enough to act on it.

$3.5Bnetwork investment decisions informed by optimization I built
$450M+annual impact validated for product, finance and technology leaders
$70M+yearly cost removed by replacing paper scheduling at 600+ locations

What I help with

Decision systems for pricing, supply chain and forecasting

Optimization and experimentation built around a specific business decision: where to place inventory, how to set a price, which network design holds up when things go wrong. I scope it in revenue, margin or cost first, then pick the simplest method that gets there.

Measuring whether AI is paying off

Many teams can't say what their AI spend returned. I set up A/B tests, bandits and causal methods where clean experiments aren't possible, so Finance gets numbers it can audit and product teams get a method they can reuse without me.

Getting from prototype to production

Architecture, monitoring, versioning and ownership, so a model survives its first quarter in production. I work alongside your engineers and leave behind templates and documentation the team owns.

Track record

How I work

Decisions before models
We agree on the business number before anyone writes code. Accuracy is a means.
If you can't monitor it, don't ship it
Every run is versioned, every experiment logged, and every component has an owner.
Build what your team can absorb
Start with a simple v1 people trust, then improve it once it's in use.

Background

  • PhD and MS, Industrial Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
  • B.Tech, Industrial Engineering, NIT Jalandhar

Tools

Python, SQL, Java · Pyomo, Gurobi, HiGHS · AWS, Databricks, Azure, GCP · MLflow, Streamlit · Claude, Gemini, Google ADK

Get in touch

Have a decision you'd like to put on firmer ground? Find me on GitHub.