Masters, Business Analytics

2022 - 2023

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Relevant Courses: Enterprise Database Management, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Database Management, Big Data Infrastructures, Financial Database Management and Analysis, Supply Chain Analytics

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

2010 - 2014

University of Pune, Pune, India

Research Assistant

September 2022 - May 2023

Data Science Research Services, UIUC, IL

• Employed Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text data from 2000+ financial statements and credit reports of 40+ companies. Also performed sentiment analysis using Masked Language Models (MLM) on the text extracted from financial statements.

Data Scientist (Research)

June 2023 - Present

Data Science Research Services, USA

• Invented open-source parallel computing Python library for NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data, reducing data reading time by 92%, accelerating overall processing speed by 3x, and cutting server costs by 20%
• Improved investment strategies and risk management by analyzing financial statement sentiments using BERT and other NLP models, achieving 83% accuracy and providing actionable market insights.
• Spearheaded web scraping of 2000+ 10-K SEC filings and employed Optical Character Recognition to transform them into text.
• Supported strategic financial management by transforming 2,000+ tax documents and 10-Ks into machine-readable text through an engineered OCR pipeline, significantly improving data accessibility and facilitating in-depth research on tax consultants.
• Developed Docker container featuring front-end interface to facilitate easy retrieval of information from financial documents.
• Derived the relationship between political/weather events and customer buying trends using Nielsen’s data with Dask on a 576 GB cluster, aiding businesses plan inventory, marketing, and staffing needs.

Business Analyst

November 2021 - July 2022

Johnson Controls, India

• Enhanced data management efficiency by 30% and reduced retrieval times by 40% by developing and deploying an ETL pipeline to migrate data from Hadoop to SQL Server, streamlining data workflows.
• Improved customer identification accuracy by 20% and increased potential sales lead identification by 30% by implementing Named Entity Recognition using Fuzzy logic to clean 1 million CRM records, enhancing data integrity through deduplication.
• Optimized SQL queries powering Power BI dashboards for sales, reducing refresh times by 20% and boosting sales activities by $50M.
• Streamlined Agile project management using JIRA and led data analysis projects, improving process flows by 75% and clearly communicating data insights to non-technical stakeholders

Data Analyst/Business Intelligence Analyst

June 2021 - October 2021

Indium Software, India

• Increased client engagement and conversion rates by 15% by developing over 50 Tableau dashboards, delivering key customer insights and improving visibility for data-driven decision-making.

Data Analyst

November 2019 - May 2021

Skymet Weather Services Ltd. (Dept. of Agriculture, India)

• Reduced querying time by 75% by migrating agriculture data from flat files to PostgresSQL and engineering a user-friendly front-end interface, optimizing data retrieval and improving user experience.
• Implemented machine learning algorithms including Linear Regression, KNN regression, Random Forest, and Neural Networks to predict agricultural production, informing design of crop-advisory policies, forecasting defaults across 25+ districts.
• Performed comprehensive Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to pinpoint essential weather and soil variables, applied feature engineering methods such as one-hot encoding and normalization, markedly enhancing model accuracy.
• Engineered soil health classification model utilizing Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, SVM and Boosting achieving 85% accuracy to improve soil management strategies.

Design Engineer/Electrical Engineer

January 2015 - October 2019

Bharat Forge Ltd & Trimurti Stampings, India

• Leveraged electrical engineering expertise in various industries from 2015 to 2019, building automotive systems design.