Machine Learning Data Scientist

VADIM KAGANSKIY

San Francisco, CA • 415-***-**** • *********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vkagansky/

Data Scientist

Resourceful professional with proven track record of solving complex and ambiguous problems and business challenges, finding actional insights that were driving business decision making, as well as delivering critical projects. Thoughtful, creative approach to critically process data, developing data pipelines, and identify patterns and trends to innovate, attract customers, and support business growth. Extensive experience in mathematics, programming, analytics, statistics, business, finance, health care, and e-commerce.

Accomplishments

• • Saved Conducted Walmart innovative eCommerce research over on $300,customer 000 in demographics the first year alone and customer by recovering behavior mistakenly and calculated paid taxes. the age distribution of

• • company Recognized At Fanatics, customers, with integrated awards providing data for from top accurate performance: 40 sources insights and Innovation to developed the Business Champion data to pipelines better award target to and Elasticsearch Annual customers Engineering and and Salesforce increase award. sales. for the use in

• • targeted Provided Co-founded e-recommendations mail a startup marketing that developed campaigns. to Aktana’ technology As customers a result to of that assist this allowed project, physicians to sales increase in increased planning sales by by radiotherapy over 5-10% $20,with 000,for the 000 cancer same in the patients. budget. first year. The technology was sold to 8 cancer centers in Ukraine Technology and Russia. Proficiencies Databases: Oracle, Redshift, Netezza, Teradata, SQL Server, Access, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake Languages: Python, SQL, HiveQL, R, PL/SQL, C, Java, Shell scripting Development Tools: Anaconda, Spyder, Hive, Hadoop, AWS, S3, EC2, Elasticsearch, Spark, Salesforce, Qubole, Stonebranch, PL/SQL Developer, Aqua Studio, DBBeaver, Tableau, Informatica, Talend, Business Objects, Git, Jira Professional Experience

Multiple Stealth Startups, San Francisco, CA 02/2023-present

• • Consulting Python, SQL, and Data exploring Science, the Database ideas and Design feasibility of co-founding a startup with potential partners(details are confidential) Aktana, San Francisco, CA

Lead Data Scientist 10/2019 – 09/2022

• Collaborated with cross functional stakeholder, including senior management and clients, to develop requirements,

• evaluate Developed their data feasibility pipelines, and collected, discuss insights. cleaned and organized data required for Machine Learning models as well as to

• • • • explain Provided Developed Developed Implemented results. data models multi-these visualizations channel to models predict optimization for and doctors’ several conducted responses models clients exploratory in to different to recommend the marketing and countries statistical the best activities (Machine analysis course of Learning, of pharmaceutical of action clients’ for Statistics, data. our companies. clients. Python, SQL, Snowflake, MySQL, AWS, S3, KNIME).

Fanatics, San Mateo, CA 05/2016 – 04/2019

Member of Technical Staff (Staff Software Engineer) 2

• Integrated data from around 40 different sources and developed data pipelines to load the data into Elasticsearch and Salesforce for the use in targeted e-mail marketing (SQL, Stonebranch, AWS, S3, Hive, Qubole, Hadoop, Elasticsearch,

• Redshift, Conducted Python, quantitative Spark, research Salesforce)and, to provided bring dozens data visualizations of millions of to dollars identify of additional data trends revenue. that provided insights into what

• kind Extracted of products and transformed customers information were going to from buy. multi-terabyte-size datasets such as AWS, S3, Hadoop, and Redshift. Walmart Global E-Commerce, San Bruno, CA 01/2004 – 05/2016 Architect, Staff Software Engineer (Business Intelligence)

• • • For Developed Identified 10+ years and data was fixed pipelines leading several that financial sources ensured reporting of discrepancies accuracy in the and company on-that time existed from delivery when the of engineering I all joined financial the side. company. reports. Established a set of alarms

• that Saved notified the company about any hundreds discrepancies of thousands so they of could dollars be by fixed recovering immediately. mistakenly paid taxes and claiming back taxes on

• • refunded Served Closely as collaborated sales. Lead Architect Detected, with on Business mitigated, several teams, large-and prevented scale Product projects. Management, multimillion-Provided dollar Project high-level accounting Management, and detail errors. design and other for new stakeholders functionality. to address

• the Handled business multi-intelligence terabyte production needs. and data warehouse databases including Oracle, Teradata, and Netezza. Created and enhanced various sophisticated reports, data visualizations, dashboards, and data feeds (Tableau, Business Objects, shell

• and In ambiguous SQL scripts) situations, as well as leveraged ETLs (Informatica, data to drive Talend, business SQL). decision making. In particular, conducted innovative research

• on Recognized customer with demographics multiple awards and customer for top performance behavior; this including research Innovation affected company’s Champion marketing award and campaigns. Annual Engineering award.

Additional Experience

Senior Database Architect KickFire Saratoga, CA Senior • • • Oversaw Developed Integrated Software database Engineer KickFire and tested development. product ABB Web Energy pages and evaluated Information Designed requiring its database complicated performance Systems schema Santa database with for Clara, various the calls Web-CA (databases ColdFusion, based application (Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL providing SQL, Server, shell collaboration scripts, DB2, MySQL)Java, C). tools. .

• Developed, tested, maintained, and installed on users’ sites the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems Co-• Founder, for Developed power Vice applications and President maintained (SVIT Oracle, Data Medical SQL, Engineering PL/Systems SQL, C/product C+Kyiv, +, Oracle Ukraine to collect Forms, customers’ Java, Perl, data Unix for shell loading scripts, into Avanti the real-real-time time database. database).

• Co-founded a startup that developed technology to assist physicians in planning radiotherapy for cancer patients. This Research technology Scientist was Central sold to Research 8 cancer Institute centers in for Ukraine Radiology and Russia. St. Petersburg, Russia

• Developed mathematical methods and software (C, Fortran) to calculate and optimize dose distributions for cancer

• radiotherapy Developed mathematical using linear and methods dynamic and programming. software (C++ and C) to simulate dynamic populations. Applied this software to medical and biological problems, such as predicting the evolution of a cell population after the injection of a drug. Education & Credentials

Ph. D., Computer Applications, Peter the Great Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia M.S., Physics, State University, St. Petersburg, Russia Won multiple prizes in the competitions in math and physics (“Olympiads”) among high school students Executive Data Science Specialization & Data Science Specialization Certificates, John Hopkins University Data Visualization with Tableau Specialization Certificate, University of California Davis Over 200 online courses in Data Science, Computer Science, Business, & Finance US Patent S/N: 13/397326 : https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130211875A1/ Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2033246361_Vadim_Kagansky

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