About me

Data Analyst with over 11 years of experience in Engineering, Fintech, and Online Media. Skilled in formulating hypotheses and validating them through data mining. Over the years, I've developed a diverse skill set that enables me to code efficiently in Python, leverage SQL to identify data quality issues, and craft clear visualizations that drive impactful decision-making.

Experience

April 2024 — Present

• Pursuing German Integration course, now in the final stages of acquiring B1 level in German. The goal is to achieve C1 proficiency by end of 2025.

• Acquired 'The German' driving license.

• Volunteering as an online career guide for an Indian NGO.

• Also, travelled a lot.

Senior Data Analyst

Upday GmbH

January 2023 — March 2024

• Built a GUI interface using Streamlit on Snowflake for non-technical stakeholders to access and view data without any interference from Data Team. This automation saved 3 hours/week of the Data Team.

• Initiated an investigation into new user churn due to interstitial ads, and feature modifications after a successful A/B test resulted in retention of 16 % more new users.

• Identified performance issues in looker and built efficient views to be stored in cache, thereby reducing query overload, cost & run-time. The dashboard load duration improved by over 96.7%.

• Collaborated with the editorial team to define new metrics to improve push-notification performance of news.

• Teamed up with app and website product managers to evaluate user behavior with a goal to improve overall DAU and organic DAU.

• Engaged with the marketing team to analyze marketing campaigns and derive insights from Adjust and Braze data tools.

Career Break

Data Analyst | Risk Analytics

Kaleidofin | Chennai, India

January 2022 — November 2022

• Conducted preliminary analysis on research data for a pilot credit card product, uncovering key insights into the credit needs of the Informal Economy Consumer. These insights were effectively presented, successfully securing investor support for the product launch.

• Took the initiative to clear data-quality backlogs by coding efficient data preprocessing pipelines in SQL.

• Performed risk analytics on credit lending ML models built by the credit-analytics team.

• Built & tuned ML models to keep PAR (Portfolio At Risk) in check & also worked with customer-partnership team to improve CE (Collection Efficiency) for the savings product.

• Partnered with the Product and Operations team to approach and resolve operational efficiency using data.

Product Data Analyst

Caterpillar | Chennai, India

November 2018 — December 2021

• Developed a robust Python solution to process telematics data from CAT machines, automating data quality checks and analysis with end-to-end code built from scratch.

• Refined tableau dashboards to provide clear actionable insights to Engineers and generated reports to be used as ‘Data Backed Evidence’ for engineering decisions.

Data Engineer

HTC Global Services | Chennai, India

February 2014 — October 2018

• Developed Kornshell and Informatica scripts to extract, transform and load data from flat files to SQL tables.

• Lead a decentralized cloud migration project successfully.

Service Desk Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions | Chennai, India

September 2012 — December 2013

• Collaborated with service teams to deliver Level-1 technical support for a large retailer in the US.

• Identified recurring issues and automated alerts for early resolution.