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EDUCATION

Master of Science in Business Analytics 12/2024

University of California, San Diego

Courses: Data Science, Data-Driven Communications, Business Intelligence Systems, SQL & ETL, Advanced Analytics Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering 06/2020 National Institute of Technology, Calicut

Courses: Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Inferential Statistics, Differential Calculus, Machine Learning PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UniEdge UCSD, San Diego

Data Scientist(LLM, Open AI, Web Development, RAG, Python, Leadership) 08/2023 - Present

Leading the development of UniEdge, conducted in-depth interviews with 50+ students across 10 schools to identify pain points, designed a strategic action plan development

Developed UniEdge’s web landing page, with ongoing integration of a LLM based algorithm for student-recruiter match scoring and providing curated skill development content for students Amadeus Software Labs, Air Canada E-commerce website Bangalore, India

Web Data Analyst(MySQL, Spark, Exploratory Data Analysis, Azure, Tableau, Pivot tables, REST API) 08/2020 - 06/2023

Leveraged Azure MySQL Database to extract web data, spearheaded end-to-end web data analysis, and pinpointed key entry pages, yielded 15% upswing in total website traffic and 12% boost in user engagement

Created Process Improvements by Implementing a dynamic Website Analytics Dashboard using Tableau, leveraging REST API to fetch data and yielding a 17% increase in Session-to-order conversion alongside a 13% reduction in Bounce rates

Analyzed and tested conversion funnels, uncovering critical pain points and areas of improvement. By addressing these, a remarkable 11% growth in sales was achieved and drive revenue by $3.4 million

Software Developer/Business Analyst(UI Development, Technical Documentation, Requirements Gathering)

Developed project business cases, Analyzed 200+ JIRA stories and collaborated with 10+ cross-functional teams across 3 continents, delivered 15+ features through effective stakeholder engagement and requirement documentation

Engineered tax-compliant solutions for 3 South American regions, adapting pricing with added taxes due to regulations. Imple- mented the pricing feature and user-notification banners, impacting 1.4 million PNRs in a quarter

Guided technical and functional grooming sessions with developers and testers, crafting technical documentation for 60+ user stories. Led the delivery of user stories over 10 sprints, influencing 6 million PNRs across two quarters ACADEMIC PROJECT EXPERIENCE

LLM-Based CSV Evaluator for Enhanced Data Analysis (Streamlit, Langchain, OpenAI, Python) Ã 08/2023 - 09/2023

Engineered LLM-based CSV Evaluator for efficient data querying, achieving a 73% accuracy rate across 100+ test prompts by leveraging OpenAI’s technology, enhancing speed in data analysis Bottom Up Top Down VQA (NLP, Computer Vision, Python, Numpy, PyTorch, Pandas, Deep Learning) Ã 09/2023 - 10/2023

Built a Bottom-up top-down visual question answering model with modified FasterRCNN weights for bottom-up layer and attention-based LSTM model for top-down approach resulting in a VQA score of 0.77 ArXiv Dataset Classification(NLP, NLTK, SQL, AWS, Excel, PyTorch, Python) Ã 10/2023 - 11/2023

Trained algorithms to classify research papers into different classes (CS, AI, Electrical etc) using SOTA NLP models like BERT, RoBERTa, LSTM, BiLSTM, DistilBERT, Canine from hugging face tools with BERT giving best f1 score of 0.78 SPECIALIZED SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, R, SQL, PySpark, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, C Frameworks & Softwares: Pandas, Numpy, Tableau, Scikit-learn, Snowflake, Power BI, Streamlit, XGBoost, Aws, Seaborn Skills: Data mining, Data visualization, Data modeling, Agile development, Regression, Decision Tree Project management, Predictive analytics, LLM Integration, Forecasting, Clustering, Simplex Random Forest, Ada Boost, Gradient Boosting, Hypothesis Testing, A/B Testing, SDLC, Keras Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst, Google Data Analytics Certificate, SAFe R 5