Rishikesh Kumar S
Bloomington, IN linkedin/rishikesh-kumar-s *******@**.*** +1-812-***-****
SUMMARY
M.S. Data Science candidate at Indiana University Bloomington with nearly 3 years of software development experience. Skilled in data pipelines, ML projects, ETL automation, statistical analysis, and data visualization. Passionate about applying data science to solve real-world problems.
EXPERIENCE
Wipro Technologies Chennai, India
Software Engineer Aug 2021 - May 2024
• Developed and maintained Data Hydration jobs within a Spring Boot application.
• Data Hydration is an elaborate procedure that involves moving data from one or more sources to a specific database, enforcing data quality regulations, and preserving data integrity within that target database.
• Automated data transformation processes through advanced SQL scripting, reducing manual intervention by 80% and i mproving data accuracy, which resulted in a more reliable dataset used for company-wide reporting.
• Implemented data pipelines with Apache Airflow and Apache Spark, optimized application performance with Hadoop.
• Examined the data for errors and inconsistencies, rectified or eliminated inaccurate and inconsistent data, and oversaw the archival and removal of outdated data from the active database when necessary.
• Conducted thorough code reviews by maintaining JUnit tests to identify and resolve bugs, ensuring the delivery of high- quality, error-free web solutions.
EDUCATION
PROJECTS
Prediction system for Bike Rental Demands in Metropolitan cities
• This project achieved accurate predictions to facilitate daily bike management using methods such as linear regression, random forest regressor, and decision tree regressor.
• Leveraging historical data and analyzing seasonal and environmental factors.
• It helps optimize bike availability and manage peak demand efficiently. Raspberry Pi-Based Leaf Damage Identification and Facial Recognition System using Machine Learning
• Development of a basic machine learning model that can identify damaged leaves and implement facial recognition through image processing using a Raspberry Pi.
• It can be applied in agriculture for plant health monitoring and security for access control. Sentiment Analysis on IMDb Movie Reviews Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches
• This project explores sentiment analysis on IMDb movie reviews using various machine learning and deep learning techniques.
• By leveraging a dataset of 50,000 movie reviews, the study implements feature extraction methods like TF-IDF, Word2Vec, and GloVe, alongside models such as Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, and BERT.
• Evaluated based on accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score. SKILLS
Technical Skills: PL/SQL, Python, Java, C, C++, Springboot, HTML, CSS, React.js, Oracle, R, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikitlearn, Junit, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL.
Developer Tools: Intellij, Oracle SQL Developer, Dbeaver, Ansible, Unreal Engine, Git, PowerBI, Android Studio, Postman, Shell Script, Agile Methodologies
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
MS. Data Science.
Courses: Algorithms & Analysis, Advanced Database concepts, Data Mining, Introduction to Statistics, Data Visualization
Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India
B.E Computer Science and Engineering
Courses: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems
Aug 2024 – May 2026
CGPA: 3.2 / 4.0
Aug 2017 - June 2021
CGPA: 8.21 / 10.0