Resume

Data Engineer

IBM - Chief Information Office (CIO)

Led data engineering initiatives as Product Owner for the GHD business unit, optimizing and scaling data pipelines to drive predictive analytics and data mining capabilities.

• Migrated IBM's transactional data warehouse to IBM Cloud using Apache Spark and Scala
• Reduced costs by 81.3% through legacy system migration and decommissioning
• Optimized SQL scripts from 600+ to 22 ETLs through new modeling and architecture
• Improved processing speed by 63.6% with data lakes and data marts implementation
• Reduced downtime by 37.5% through Jenkins CI/CD and Apache Airflow automation
• Participated in CDC PoC using Apache Kafka and Debezium for streaming data pipelines

Software Developer Intern

IBM - Chief Information Office (CIO)

Assisted with 6+ cross-functional teams to streamline data workflows, integrating data pipelines that supported efficient ML algorithm development for optimal bid pricing.

• Validated and refined 40+ SQL scripts into 6 Fact models
• Documented 17 key business logic for bid pricing modules
• Automated Datamart schema generation with Python script

Research Assistant

Amrita School of Engineering - AMUDA Lab

Performed EDA on real-time indoor localization data using BLE beacons, applying ML techniques to derive actionable insights.

Master of Science

New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Computer Science, AI Concentration

Bachelor of Technology

Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Computer Science

Recitation Leader

New York University

Recitation leader for these courses at CIMS Math department

• CALC I, MATH-UA.121.019 & MATH-UA.121.020

Gaze-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Visual Search

Implemented a novel RL framework integrating human gaze patterns with PPO algorithm in AI2-THOR using three integration methods and custom CNN architectures.

• Achieved 26% better performance than random baselines
• Improved sample efficiency in 3D visual search and object detection tasks

MTA Transit Time Prediction

Designed robust regression models to predict NYC bus travel times using MTA BusTime and TomTom Traffic data.

• Achieved MAE of 43.73 seconds using XGBoost with grid-based modeling
• Evaluated LSTM architectures to optimize short-sequence temporal data predictions

Health Insurance Cross-Sell Prediction Case Study

Engineered a predictive machine learning model to forecast customer propensity for purchasing additional insurance products.