Athul is an analytical consultant and research-led operator with two years of experience building data products and decision tools for large-scale operations. He holds a degree from IIT Kharagpur and has worked across operations, supply chain, and workforce analytics at Indus Insights.
He currently leads research and analytics workstreams at Indus Insights, owning problem scoping, solution design, and stakeholder delivery end-to-end across a top-three US airline client.
His most significant project was a seat-change optimizer for a major US airline, which he took from a vague operational brief to a live A/B test across 4,200+ flights, delivering $6.6M in annual staffing savings.
He also defined a four-tier spend taxonomy for a $10B+ procurement portfolio, requiring him to push back on legacy classifications and align senior procurement leadership on what actually mattered at scale.
Earlier, he conducted primary research on payment platform adoption in small restaurants at IIM Kozhikode, combining field surveys with machine learning to draw market insights.
