Practical Data Analytics & Python Programming from highly experienced Video Gaming Industry Professional

Utsav's Resume

- Data Analytics professional with over 8 years of Industry Experience
- Master’s Degree in Information Quality/ Data Security
- Experienced Cloud Platform Practitioner (AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
- Certified Hadoop and Informatica Developer with over 5 years of industrial experience in Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Quality, and Hadoop Ecosystem

Electronic Arts (EA)
FIFA - Security Data Engineer
January 2019 - Present
Vancouver, Canada Area
• Design and architect a self-sufficient data analytics platform that supports
Security and Analytics projects on an EA Sports wide level.
• Lead Data Engineering and Data Quality efforts in FIFA Security; mentor
Junior Data Engineers.
• Work with raw data, design schemas, optimize data transformation, and
manage deployments and maintenance of intelligent data pipelines to support
data security
• Develop business intelligence for predictive modeling and reporting solutions
• Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of proposed data solutions to
prevent security risks
• End-to-end administration and maintain tools, systems, pipelines, and ETLs
• Communicate designs, issues, and trade-offs to stakeholders


LotLinx, Inc.
AI Data Engineer
August 2018 - December 2018 (5 months)
Winnipeg, Canada
- Engineer solutions for large data storage, management, and curation of
training data models
- Explore available technologies and design solutions to continuously improve
our data quality, workflow reliability, scalability while reporting performance and
capabilities
- Act as internal expert in each of the data sources so that you can own overall
data quality
- Design, build and deploy new data models, ETL pipelines into production and
data warehouse
- Define and manage overall schedule and availability of all data sets


Sprint
Data Scientist
January 2017 - July 2018 (1 year 7 months)
Overland Park, KS, USA
● Architect intelligent data solutions for the enterprise with an emphasis on design
fit for predictive modeling using SAS and Python.
● Analyze customer data and build predictive and prescriptive models to
identify patterns of interest and segments that require attention.
● Collaborate with partnering companies to work on predictive models that
focus on stolen device detection, fraudulent activities, and customer churn.
● Lead in-house data engineering projects to improve Enterprise Data Quality;
Manage project on scoring data sets based on statistics, risks & issues
● Provide technical subject matter expertise in support of the following:
- Statistical and exploratory data analysis using Python, SAS
- Troubleshooting and ETL performance tuning of production issues with
Hadoop/NoSQL/SAS Grid
- Designing, implementing and deploying ETL processes in Hadoop/SAS


Acxiom
Data Engineer
February 2016 - December 2016 (11 months)
Little Rock, Arkansas
● Developed and maintained production level code for Big Data Applications.
● Analyzed and reviewed financial data for Acxiom clients and provide
feedback and solutions.
● Lead consulting projects on functional requirements and participate in code
review sessions with clients on Java, Pig, Hive, shell script and Python.
● Worked with Acxiom’s Data Warehousing team to provide support and
develop workflows for Informatica Power Center 10.x.
● Developed Big Data Applications and Workflows using Talend Open Studio
for Big Data (MapR Environment).


Research & Technology - Arkansas Department of Education
2 years 3 months
Data Scientist/ Engineer
August 2015 - February 2016 (7 months)
Little Rock
● Predict student performance using Predictive Analysis (Ensemble Learning)
based on socioeconomic factors. [Java, Weka API, Mahout]
● Develop Entity Resolution System powered by Hadoop MapReduce and
Hive. [Java, Hive, SQOOP]
● Develop a customized Data Profiling and Analysis tool for state and district
users which include entropy analysis to filter out possible False Positives or
Negatives post Entity Resolution. [C#, ASP.NET]
● Collaborate with contractors to migrate Organizational Data Warehouse tool
from Data Manager to Informatica; reload and re-organize data by creating
complex workflows in Informatica 9.6.
● Build an automated application system for Neglected and Delinquent students.
[ASP.NET, C#, Entity Resolution]


Data Quality Lead
May 2014 - August 2015 (1 year 4 months)
Little Rock, Arkansas
● Design and develop Identity Management System which takes the concept
of crowdsourcing to school administrators/ teachers where they can help to
make better the state’s knowledge base for student data. [C#, ASP.NET]
● Plan and develop Arkansas Longitudinal Data System which allows state
agencies to perform inter-agency research without having to worry about
sharing Personally Identifiable Information. [Python, C#, ASP.NET]
● Design and build Entity Resolution Engine to perform specific ETL
operations on data collected nightly from all schools throughout the state.
[Java, C#]
● Social Media Analysis on ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems) using
mined data from Twitter. [Flume, MapReduce, Hive, Pandas, SciPy, NumPy,
scikit-learn]


Data Quality Analyst
December 2013 - May 2014 (6 months)
Little Rock
●Development, review and research on the application of Entity Resolution
and Identity Management to student and teacher data for all schools in the
state of Arkansas.
● Developed Ad Hoc Identity Resolution Tool which is a web interface
including statistical analysis dashboard for existing open source Entity
Resolution tool OYSTER. [Java, Javascript]
● Develop automatic email notification system including historical statistical
analysis from latest runs. [Python]


University of Arkansas at Little Rock
8 months
Academic Coach
February 2013 - December 2013 (11 months)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Counsel undergraduate students to help them perform better academically.
Conduct seminars and workshops for Student Personal Development.


Web Developer/ Database Administrator
May 2013 - August 2013 (4 months)
Little Rock, Arkansas
- Developed desktop and mobile website for University of Arkansas involving
PHP, SQL, Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Monitor and manage UALR library database using MySQL.


Accenture
Associate Software Engineer
February 2012 - December 2012 (11 months)
Hyderabad, India
● Perform manual and automation testing on web-based UI for Farmers
Insurance Group- Zurich Financial Services.
● Author test cases and known for logging many crucial defects as a test
analyst.
● Develop helper applications to save time and manual efforts for the testing
team. [VB Script]

Education
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Master's degree, Information Quality · (2013 - 2014)
KIIT University
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering · (2008 - 2012)