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+type: candidate_profile
+candidate_id: mahesh-kumar-avula
+name: Mahesh Kumar Avula
+location: USA
+role_targets:
+  - Risk Analytics Investigator
+  - Fraud Analyst
+  - IT Risk Analyst
+experience_years: 3+
+work_authorization:
+  status: STEM OPT
+  valid_through: 2028
+  sponsorship_required: true
+source: user_submitted_resume
+last_updated: 2026-04-20
+---
+
+# Candidate Profile — Mahesh Kumar Avula
+
+Source provided by user and prepared for use with career-ops style workflows.
+
+## Contact
+- **Name:** Mahesh Kumar Avula
+- **Location:** USA
+- **LinkedIn:** https://linkedin.com/in/maheshkumaravula03
+- **GitHub:** https://github.com/dev00amk
+- **Work Authorization:** STEM OPT through 2028; H-1B sponsorship required for long-term employment
+
+## Education
+### Lindsey Wilson College — Columbia, KY
+- **Degree:** Master of Science, Technology Management (STEM)
+- **Graduation:** December 2024
+- **GPA:** 3.91 / 4.00
+- **Coursework:** IT Governance, Cybersecurity & Network Security, Disaster Recovery Planning, Management Information Systems, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Cyberlaw
+
+### Bhavan's Vivekananda College, Osmania University — Hyderabad, India
+- **Degree:** Bachelor of Commerce (Honors), Finance, Accounting & Business Strategy
+- **Graduation:** 2019
+- **Coursework:** Financial Accounting, Auditing, Financial Statement Analysis, Investment Management, Financial Institutions & Markets, Banking Theory & Practice
+
+## Professional Experience
+### Amazon — Risk Analytics Investigator
+- **Dates:** September 2020 to October 2022
+- **Location:** Remote
+- Evaluated 200–300 high-risk transactions daily across Amazon's global payments ecosystem while maintaining 98% investigation accuracy.
+- Identified fraud patterns using SQL-based behavioral analysis, informing rule updates that reduced fraud losses by 20%.
+- Synthesized insights from thousands of investigations to improve decisioning rules and reduce false positives.
+- Partnered with policy and operations teams to improve investigation workflows and increase analyst throughput.
+- Escalated complex fraud cases through structured analytical reports supporting enforcement and compliance actions.
+
+### Deloitte USI — Audit Analyst
+- **Dates:** January 2020 to August 2020
+- **Location:** Hyderabad, India
+- Assessed internal control frameworks during financial and compliance audits for enterprise clients.
+- Performed transaction testing and financial analysis to validate control effectiveness and regulatory compliance.
+- Documented control deficiencies and contributed to remediation recommendations addressing operational risks.
+
+### Cognizant — Process Executive
+- **Dates:** August 2019 to December 2019
+- **Location:** Hyderabad, India
+- Managed compliance-driven operational workflows while maintaining SLA adherence and quality standards.
+
+## Analytics, Risk, and Strategy Projects
+### RiskSphere — Enterprise IT Risk & Control Intelligence Platform
+- Designed an IT risk monitoring platform aligned with COSO and NIST frameworks: risk registers, automated control testing, and compliance dashboards.
+- Built Python and SQL workflows evaluating preventive, detective, and corrective controls across simulated IT environments.
+- Developed Power BI risk heatmaps visualizing inherent and residual risk across business units.
+- Modeled enterprise risk treatment strategies including mitigation, transfer, acceptance, and avoidance.
+
+### MiniMonitor — Financial Crime Decision Intelligence System
+- **Repository:** https://github.com/dev00amk/minimonitor
+- Built a transaction monitoring platform using rule-based detection and ML anomaly detection (Isolation Forest, XGBoost).
+- Developed an analyst dashboard enabling alert triage, risk scoring, and fraud pattern visualization.
+
+### FlowOpt — Supply Chain Intelligence Platform
+- Built a supply chain analytics system evaluating inventory flow, logistics performance, and delivery data across a multi-warehouse network.
+- Developed Python demand forecasting models predicting regional inventory requirements.
+- Designed Power BI dashboards identifying logistics bottlenecks and routing inefficiencies.
+
+### MarketPulse — Strategic Market Intelligence Platform
+- Built a strategic analytics platform combining revenue, competitive, and customer datasets to support business strategy analysis.
+- Developed segmentation models and regional growth analysis identifying underperforming markets and pricing gaps.
+
+## Skills
+### Analytics & Data
+- SQL
+- Python
+- Power BI
+- Tableau
+- Machine Learning (XGBoost, Isolation Forest)
+- Forecasting Models
+
+### Domain Expertise
+- IT Risk & GRC
+- Financial Crime & Fraud
+- Risk Analytics
+- Audit & Internal Controls
+- Supply Chain Analytics
+
+### Frameworks
+- COSO
+- NIST CSF
+- COBIT
+- ISACA Risk Framework
+- AML / BSA / OFAC
+- KYC / KYB
+- SOX
+- IT Governance
+
+## Certifications
+### Held
+- AWS Cloud Practitioner
+- Advanced SQL Certification
+
+### Pursuing
+- CRISC — Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
+- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
+- PMP — Project Management Professional
+- Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate
+
+## Additional
+- **Languages:** English (Fluent), Hindi, Telugu