TARAN

GILL

ac54kn@r.postjobfree.com

604-***-****

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Skills

LANGUAGES

Python

SQL

HTML

Spark

DATABASES

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Oracle

HADOOP ECO SYSTEM

Hadoop

HDFS

Map-Reduce

YARN

VERSION CONTROL AND

TASK MANAGEMENT

Git

JIRA

Confluence

TOOLS & IDE

Tableau

Jupyter

Spyder

PYTHON AND MACHINE

LEARNING LIBRARIES

Scikit Learn

Pandas

Numpy

NLP Toolkit

Dedupe

Spark ML

TextBlob

Matplotlib

SOFT SKILLS

Excellent Written and Verbal

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Active Learning

Critical Thinking

Decision Making

Self Motivated

Ability to Work Under Pressure

Results Oriented

Education

Simon Fraser University

Masters (M.Sc.) Computing Science, Big Data Program 2018 University of Fraser Valley

Bachelors (B.C.I.S.) Information Systems 2015

Panjab University, Guru Nanak Girls College, Punjab, India Bachelors (B.Sc.) Computing Science 2009

Employment

Blackduck Software by Synopsys Burnaby, BC

Data Scientist Apr 2017 to Current

Collaborated with team members to optimize Hub database for over 6 million open Source projects and learned a classification model using Classification and Regression Trees Improved model accuracy by 20% using scikit-learn's parameter tuning and reduced training time by 50% by feature engineering

Performed Data analysis and predictive modeling including entity resolution using Word2Vec, TFIDF and Jaccard similarity and decreased the duplicate projects in database Williams Machinery Surrey, BC

Service Writer (Summer Position) May 2016 to Aug 2016 Maintained data log of technician times in a timely manner to maximize productivity Generated Service reports, repair estimates

Positive and professional communication with customers to ensure customer satisfaction Windset Farms Delta, BC

Data Entry Clerk Jul 2013 to Jan 2016

Issue produce orders using "Famous" Software for Safeway, Costco and Loblaws Handled product prices, product transfers to and from US, Spain and Mexico Projects

Learning a Classification model, Blackduck Software Jan 2018 to Current Developing a predictive modelling technique for extremely imbalanced data to identify true duplicate projects based on certain features

Minimize false negatives and reduce the need to manually review projects Process includes feature engineering, parameter tuning, ensemble methods, adjusting class distribution of dataset using undersampling and over sampling methods

Personalized Restaurant Recommender, Big Data Programming, SFU Apr 2017 Built a tool to recommend personalized date locations based on social media sentiment Built user profile by analyzing Yelp reviews. Used Collaborative filtering to make recommendations based on user preferences

Predicted Person of Interest, Big Data Programming, SFU Dec 2016 Predicted the likelihood of being person of interest in Enron fraud conspiracy Python and Spark were used for statistical model training. Volunteering

Helping with the elderly for EI benefits, Visa applications Jan 2012 to Current Newton, Surrey, BC

Opportunities for the Disabled Foundation Data Entry Clerk Oct 2012 to Jan 2013 Burnaby, BC

Major Achievements and Awards

Best Trainee and consistently selected by the customers over other Data Entry Clerks to do order adjustments

(Sept. 2013- Jan. 2016)

Graduated with Distinction from Punjab University (Apr. 2009) Best Student Award (July 2007 & 2009)

Master of Ceremony at several functions at Guru Nanak Girls College (July 2006- Apr. 2009)

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