ANKUSH AGREKAR
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linkedin.com/in/ankush-agrekar github.com/aagrekar SKILLS
Machine Learning Feature Engineering,
EDA, Classification Methods (RF, SVM,
XGBoost), Clustering, Linear
Regression, Social network analysis.
Programming Languages R, Python,
MATLAB, Shell Scripting, SQL, PySpark
Tools MapReduce, Hive, Spark, HBase,
MySQL, DB2, Cloudera, Weka, R-
Studio, Jupyter Notebooks, SQLite,
Atom, MS Office.
Soft skills Proficient communication
skills, Self-motivated, Adaptability,
Quick learner, Ability to work under
pressure
RECENT COURSEWORK
Applied Statistics, Statistical Learning,
Big Data Technologies, Monte Carlo
methods in Finance, Data Preparation
and Analysis, Online Social Networking
Analysis, Data Mining
ACHIEVEMENTS
Barclaycard Annual Values Award from
the CEO of Barclaycard for saving
Barclaycard of the reputation damage.
Barclaycard Values Award for
Excellence for devising a work around to
the merchant statement problem.
Barclaycard Star Award for automating
scripts saving manual intervention and
time by around ~1hr daily.
CERTIFICATES
Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
EDUCATION
Illinois Institute of Technology Master of Data Science CGPA 3.90 2017 Vishwakarma Institute of Technology B.E. Electronics Engineering CGPA 8.55 2012
WORK EXPERIENCE
Uptake Technologies Inc. Sponsored Project
May 2017 – Sept 2017
Assessed applications of data science in the IoT security domain. Performed exploratory data analysis to find feature interactions, identify attacks on various sensors and equipment.
Built models to classify the events as attack or non-attack with over 97% accuracy. [ XGboost, clustering, timeseries, PCA]
Barclays Technology Centre India Senior Support Analyst Nov 2012 – Jul 2016
Assisted in maintaining tier 1 and tier 2 applications which processed payments of nearly 350M GBP on a daily basis and generated statements worth 900M GBP.
Spearheaded in-depth analysis of a statement generation batch which was generating the merchant statements incorrectly and devised a work around that saved Barclaycard the growing reputation damage.
Developed scripts to gather daily stats and data which reduced manual efforts by around 10%.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Walmart Sales Prediction: Implemented Time Series modelling on Walmart’s Dataset available on Kaggle.com to predict the future store wise sales with R. Analyzed the data correlation using ACF and PACF and fit ARIMA model using forecast package in R to predict future weekly sales for a user input store and department.
HR Analytics: Analyzed HR dataset on Kaggle.com using R, to understand the primary factors that makes an employee leave an organization. Trained models like Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, SVMs and Neural Network to predict the next probable employee to quit and compared the results. Presidential Candidates Social Network Analysis: Scrapped data from Twitter using TwitterAPI for the 2016 Presidential candidates and analyzed their social connections and constructed network graphs to analyze using python. Facebook Community Detection and Link Prediction: Used Bill Gates connections from Facebook to build a network graph and analyze the different communities linked through him. We then predicted future links using Jaccard score in python.
Recommender Systems: Used data from MovieLens project which contained movie ratings from users and movie genres and predicted ratings for movies in the test set based on cosine similarity using python.