2024 – present
Senior Data Scientist, Vestas
Wind energy. That's as much as I'll say here — what I write on this site draws on public and synthetic examples only.
About
Hari Baskar · Reliability AI & Industrial Systems
I'm Hari Baskar, a senior data scientist and reliability practitioner based in India. I've spent about ten years turning noisy real-world data into decisions people can act on — first in NLP and computer vision, then in wind energy, where the data comes off physical machines and being wrong has a maintenance bill attached.
Along the way I picked up credentials most data scientists don't bother with — Asset Reliability Practitioner and Certified Vibration Analyst Category II from the Mobius Institute — because I think you can't model a machine you don't understand.
The long game: over the next decade I want to move down the stack, from software intelligence toward sensing, edge systems, and hardware. I write on this site to think clearly, in public, as I go.
Experience
2019 – 2023
Senior Data Scientist, Utopus Insights
Led anomaly detection and reliability analytics for wind farms. This is where models stopped being abstractions for me: every prediction ended in a technician's decision about a physical machine.
2016 – 2019
Data Scientist, Happiest Minds
Developed NLP chatbots, ML pipelines, and OCR solutions. Three years of learning that the model is maybe a fifth of the system — the rest is data quality, thresholds, and whether anyone trusts the output.
Mar 2016 · internship
Intern, Zoho (ManageEngine)
Worked on ManageEngine: testing workflows, APIs, and integration flows. My first look at software that enterprises depend on daily — and at how much rigor that dependence demands.
Jul 2015 · internship
Intern, Tata Consultancy Services
Automated testing and backend services, including developing the Weather Tracker Android app integrating multiple APIs for localized forecasts, push alerts, and interactive maps. My first loop of fetch, interpret, decide, notify.
Education
2012 – 2016
B.E. Computer Science, KCG College of Technology
Where the building habit started — the code editor, the apps, the Tamil OCR project all came out of these years.
2007 – 2012
Higher Secondary (Math & CS), St. Joseph's School
Math and computer science, back when both were just subjects I happened to like.
Courses & certifications
- Asset Reliability Practitioner (Mobius Institute, 2025) — certification in reliability engineering. The formal version of what a decade of field data had been teaching me informally.
- Certified Vibration Analyst Category II (Mobius Institute, 2025) — credential for advanced vibration analysis. Learning to read machines in their own language, before the data ever reaches a model.
- Deep Learning Specialization (Coursera, 2019) — neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, and more. Taken while shipping models, which is the best way to take it.
- Mathematics for Machine Learning (Coursera, 2019) — linear algebra and multivariate calculus foundations. Went back to the roots on purpose; the math outlives every framework.
Honors & awards
- Chat Bot Delivery Excellence — Happiest Minds, Apr 2018. For the help-desk and health chatbot work — shipped, adopted, and kept alive in production.
- Individual Excellence — Happiest Minds, Apr 2018.
- Innovation Award — Happiest Minds, Dec 2017. For the template-free invoice extraction approach.
- Learning Evangelist — Happiest Minds, Feb 2017. The one I'm quietly proudest of — teaching what I was learning, which is what this site now does in public.
Security disclosures
Reliability thinking doesn't stop at machines — systems fail through their weakest signal, and sometimes that's a security hole. Two I've found and reported responsibly:
- Identified a critical vulnerability in an ISP's system and coordinated its responsible disclosure.
- Reported and helped mitigate sensitive information leakage and security threats within enterprise environments.
Details withheld deliberately — responsible disclosure means the fix gets the spotlight, not the finder.
Contact
The best way to reach me is email: haribaskar98@gmail.com.