Eldho Skaria — Analytics & Chess

Over the board

2019

Commonwealth Games · Under-16

Represented India

Selected to play for India in the Under-16 category — competing against the strongest juniors in the Commonwealth. The kind of pressure that teaches you to make decisions with an incomplete picture and a running clock.

National representation

2102

Current FIDE rating

Still playing, still climbing

An active rating built over years of tournament play — and the reason I spent a year coaching juniors at Kids Unlimited in Melbourne. Teaching a position is the fastest way to find out whether you actually understand it.

Active tournament player

Chess isn't a hobby I list at the bottom of a CV. It's where I learned pattern recognition, calculated risk and the discipline of sitting with a hard problem — the same three things analytics asks for.

Play me

Full rules — castling, en passant, promotion. The computer thinks for itself.

Status

Your move

Captured

Moves

Strength You play

About

Glen Waverley, Victoria — available for work across Melbourne

I'm an analyst by training and a competitor by instinct — most useful where the numbers have to become a decision someone can act on.

Right now I'm completing a Master of Business Analytics at Deakin University in Burwood, finishing June 2027. Before Melbourne, I finished a Bachelor of Computer Applications at Sacred Heart College in Kochi, India.

The path here wasn't only academic. I wrote Python automation as an intern at iDatalytics, ran marketing campaigns and managed 20+ client accounts in a fast-moving food business, and coached chess to kids across Melbourne — which is the fastest way I know to learn how to explain a complicated idea to someone not yet convinced they care.

I like the technical work — predictive modelling, SQL, cleaning genuinely messy data. But the part I'm best at is the handover: turning an analysis into something a person will actually use on Monday morning.

Based in: Glen Waverley, VIC
Studying: M. Business Analytics
FIDE rating: 2102
Languages: English · Malayalam · Hindi · Tamil
Status: Open to work

Eldho SkariaMelbourne, AU

What I do

A technical base from computer applications, sharpened by an analytics master's

Data & analytics

Predictive analytics, exploratory analysis and the unglamorous cleaning work that decides whether any of it holds up.

PythonPredictive analyticsData cleaningExcelVisualisation

Databases & code

Comfortable in queries and scripts. Wrote 500+ lines of Python automation during my internship and cut existing script runtime by 20–30%.

MySQLSQLJavaHTMLAutomation

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Business & strategy

Competitor research across 15+ brands, campaign execution, account ownership. Analysis that ends in a decision rather than a slide.

Market researchCampaignsAccount managementAI strategy

Teaching & communication

A year of coaching plus consultative selling. I match the level of detail to the person in front of me — technical when it helps, plain when it doesn't.

CoachingStakeholder commsPresentingMultilingual

Experience

Technical internships, customer-facing sales, and teaching

Nov 2025 — Jul 2026

Chess Coach

Kids Unlimited — Melbourne, VIC

Ran structured group sessions, adapting how I explained ideas across different ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Built trust with parents and students while keeping a 100% record of punctuality and professional conduct.
Owned equipment setup, group flow and session timing end to end.

Oct 2024 — Oct 2025

Customer Service & Marketing Executive

Manna Fried Masala — India

Managed 20+ regular client accounts with full ownership of the relationship, earning repeat business.
Executed 5+ marketing campaigns that measurably lifted engagement and conversion.
Ran competitor research across 15+ brands to inform pricing and product positioning.
Worked accurately through peak trading periods while supporting the wider team.

May 2024 — Jun 2024

Core Python Intern

iDatalytics Pvt. Ltd. — India

Wrote 500+ lines of Python automation for internal workflows.
Improved existing script execution speed by 20–30% through refactoring.
Worked in a 5-member team, supporting peers with debugging and picking up new tools quickly.

Study & credentials

In progress

Master of Business Analytics

Deakin University — Burwood, Melbourne VIC

Completing June 2027

Predictive analytics, AI strategy and enterprise applications, and data-driven decision making — with an emphasis on comparative analysis over description.

Completed

Bachelor of Computer Applications

Sacred Heart College, Thevara — Kochi, India

2022 — 2025

Programming fundamentals, databases and application development — the technical base underneath everything analytical I do now.

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07 — Contact

Your move,
let's talk.

Open to analytics, data and customer-facing roles around Melbourne. Also happy to talk about a project, a problem, or a game.

Emailskariaeldho1@gmail.com→ Phone0493 493 650→ LinkedIneldho-skaria WhatsApp0493 493 650 Instagram@eldhxo

LocationGlen Waverley, VIC

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