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Hey, I'm Rahul. I turn messy data into decisions.
Business analyst with an MBA. I sit with the people who own the number, find out what they really need to know, and build the model, the dashboard and the story.
Inventory days
-22%
Repeat orders
+9%
Saved each week
4 hrs
Dashboards in use
38
About
Things people ask me before the first call.
- Who is this?
- Rahul Iyer, business analyst in Bengaluru. Five years in retail and fintech analytics, with an MBA in operations and analytics.
- What do you work in?
- SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau and Excel, plus a lot of conversations with the people who own the numbers.
- What kind of problems?
- Inventory, pricing, retention and anything where a team argues about whose number is right.
- How do you work?
- Question first, data second, dashboard last. Every project ends with a decision someone actually made.
Work
What changed after the analysis.
Inventory planning for 600 stores
Retail chain · 2025
Built a demand forecast by store and category and a weekly replenishment report the buying team trusts.
Stock-outs fell while inventory days dropped by a fifth.
Inventory days, all stores: 61, 60, 61, 58, 54, 50, 47. -22%
Repeat purchase drivers
D2C brand · 2024
Repeat order rate by cohort: 27, 28, 28, 33, 35, 37. +9%
Cohort analysis of 2 lakh customers to find what made a second order likely.
One number for collections
Lending startup · 2023
Regions using the dashboard: 10 of 12 done. 10 of 12
Replaced four conflicting collection reports with one model and one dashboard.
Receipts
What stakeholders sent me.
Message · Head of buying
Priya N. The replenishment report is the first thing our buyers open on Monday. Thank you Rahul.
Email · CFO
Tom B. Finally one collections number that nobody argues about. That saved us a lot of meetings.
Recommendation · Marketing head
Dana K. Rahul asked better questions about our customers than our research agency did.
Message · Product lead
Wen L. Quick one: can we keep you on the pricing project for another quarter?
Email · COO
Meera J. Your churn deck is now the template for every quarterly review we do.
Recommendation · Engineering manager
Arjun D. Rahul is the analyst who asks why before he writes a single query.
Your turn
Your data has a question in it. Let's find it.
Hiring, or have a problem worth investigating? Book 30 minutes or write to me.