WORK

2019 – Present

Project Reviewer & Technical Mentor

Udacity

– Reviewer for the Machine Learning – Introduction and Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegrees
– Technical Mentor for the Knowledge forums for multiple projects for both of them.

2019 – 2020

Data Modelling Engineer

Townscript (BookMyShow)

– Working on problems involving spam detection, Elastic Search, topic modelling and personalisation.
– Working to improve the Data Lake approach and Product Metrics flow built during the internship.
– Working on various modelling and analysis problems along with day-to-day analysis tasks.
– Managing the Townscript Engineering and Product blogs as a voluntary responsibility.

2019 – 2020

Student Mentor

Udacity

– Mentor for the Machine Learning Engineer and Machine Learning Introduction Nanodegrees
– Provided 1-on-1 assistance for learning via chat and calls, troubleshooting and overall guidance
– Udacity decided to end 1-on-1 mentorship for all post-March 2020 and switched to a new format

2019 – 2019

Data Engineering Intern

Townscript (BookMyShow)

– Worked on different day-to-day analysis and data requirements.
– Built an approach for Townscript’s Data Lake and flow.
– Worked on building product metrics and trackable KPIs.
– Visualised the KPIs and metrics on dashboards by using multiple services in conjunction.

EDUCATION

2019 – 2020

Master’s of Science – Data Science

Liverpool John Moores University

– Thesis: Mood Modelling: Understanding the Relationship between Living Conditions and Mood
– Conducted a two-week-long data collection exercise to support the thesis
– Employed Unsupervised Learning techniques such as PCA and KMeans
– Received provisional transcript and certificate of recommendation
– Awaiting final degree due with the next meeting of the Academic Board of the University

2018 – 2019

Postgraduate Diploma in Data Science

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore in association with UpGrad

– PG Diploma with focus on real-world applications
– Learned Data Analysis, EDA, Predictive Analysis
– Developed technical skills like R, Python, Excel and Tableau
– Worked on Case Studies involving e-Commerce, Finance

2015 – 2018

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Amity Institute of Information Technology, Noida

CGPA: 8.77/10

– Gained both theoretical and hands-on knowledge with various technologies and languages
– Created an Android application to manage inventory as a final project
– Led the Blogging Team for TEDxAmity University (2016, 2017)
– Awarded a Merit Scholarship for the academic year 2016-2017
– Awarded Bronze Medal for overall academic performance

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

June 2018

KAARMIC Education Services

Trainer/Facilitator

– Volunteered as a Facilitator in a Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) school in Nallavagu, Sulthanabad
– Conducted sessions on communication and learning tools for 15 days for about 50 students
– Created and conducted a Journalism club as an extracurricular activity for the same batch

June 2017 – Oct 2017

TEDxAmityUniversity 2017

Volunteer

– Led the blogging team, coordinated the efforts, delegated tasks and wrote 15 articles
– Live-blogged during the entire event using 24liveblog
– Maintained social media content for the TEDxAmityUniversity page
– Brainstormed with different groups to create campaigns

June 2016 – Oct 2016

TEDxAmityUniversity 2016

Volunteer

– Volunteered for the blogging team and wrote about ten articles
– Created some social media content and other copy
– Live-blogged through the entire event using 24liveblog
– Created campaigns along with the videography team to drive traction to social media pages

MISCELLANEOUS ACHIEVEMENTS

Open-Source: R Package

cloudSimplifieR

– cloudSimplifieR is an R package that wraps over some packages such as cloudyR’s awspack and others to give easy helper functions to directly fetch data as dataframes from popular formats. It is a work-in-progress.
– Unfortunately, due to a critical dependency on another package (which is now unsupported), the package was taken off the CRAN repository in January 2020.

Blogger

The Polymath

– Personal blog about experiences, self-help, and other ideas active since December 2011
– Received Youth Inc. Magazine’s Blogger of the Month for February 2014
– Received Indiblogger’s Indian Blogger Award 2017 for the Regional Category “Uttarakhand”

Team Roles Sticker Collection for CS:GO

Graphics Design

– Designed a sticker collection for the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Workshop
– The sticker was received well by the community, and made it to the game in December 2015