Data scientist with demonstrated excellence in mobile app and game development. Strong foundation in math and software engineering with a keen eye for visual details. Recent training in data science using Python.

Experience

Full-immersion training bootcamp for data science using Python technologies

Key Achievements:

• Created a high-performance SQL-backed recommendation algorithm for albums, artists, books, and authors
• Demonstrated excellence in data visualization using matplotlib
• Used various natural language processing techniques to analyze bias in social media posts and news articles
• Gained hands-on understanding of Python, pandas, matplotlib, and scikit-learn fundamentals
• Demonstrated strength in presenting findings and recommendations to a live audience

Development of shared mobile platform services

Key Achievements:

• Became a company-wide expert in mobile monitoring using New Relic, documenting and advising on best practices for monitoring and dashboard design
• Developed a dashboard used across the organization to troubleshoot high-severity incidents
• Created various dashboards and alerts to monitor core components and audit monitoring capabilities and opportunities
• Reduced complexity of organization-wide API requests by ~70% while vastly improving inspectability

Sole Developer for Apple TV version of The Great Courses Plus

Key Achievements:

• Created initial version and subsequent rebranding for The Great Courses Plus, a Netflix-like streaming TV service
• Delivered application with no known bugs or issues and high degree of visual polish
• Proactively interfaced with SQL product catalog to help ensure bug-free feature delivery

Developed and maintained mobile e-learning applications used by millions of teachers and students worldwide

Key Achievements:

• Initiated and developed organization-wide reusable framework for branded UI components
• Won innovation hackathon by prototyping a novel diff-based client/server architecture
• Maintained bug-free status for all personal work delivered
• Developed a comprehensive test data set that was universally adopted by QA and developers, found and documented over 500 preexisting issues
• Created internal testing app for custom UI components

Sole designer, developer, and architect for iPad based learning app that replaces thousands of paper based lessons in hundreds of Sylvan learning centers nationwide

Key Achievements:

• Proactively visited learning centers and interviewed teachers and administrators before and during development
• Designed, executed, and documented a RESTful JSON-based web service architecture with built-in mock data capabilities to ensure fast iteration between frontend and backend
• Innovated a gesture-based grading mechanism, a scroll bar with built-in support for left-handed users, and a novel mechanism for injecting native iOS controls into HTML-driven contents

Education and Training

Additional Qualifications

• Tableau Certified Data Analyst
• AWS Certified Cloud Practictitioner
• New Relic Certified Observability Practitioner
• Best Overall Project - 2024 World Bank Data Dive