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SANDIP KHANT

SANDIP KHANT

Senior Data Scientist/Data Engineer/Data Architect
Budapest

Summary

Senior Data Scientist/Data engineer/Architect responsible for designing efficient Data Architecture and Data engineering framework, familiar with gathering, cleaning and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Highly organized, motivated and diligent with significant background in BFSI and Consumer Health Domain. Expert in machine learning and large dataset management.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Data Scientist/Data Engineer/Architect

TCS Ltd
01.2016 - Current
  • Effective in Stake holder engagement across levels (Directors, Model risk Management, Data architects, Product Owner) at client organization.
  • Managed team of data scientists, data engineers, fostering talent development and consistent project success.
  • Translated business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment between project objectives and deliverables.
  • Fraud Prediction Model for ACH Transactions was built to predict Fraudulent Transactions. As success measure, considering operation staff capacity, for Top Daily 30 alerts, was able to save 46% of Fraud loss in monetary values, with false positives of 1.20 out of 10, and captured 14.5% high worth fraudulent transactions.
  • Designed Metadata driven Data architecture and Developed custom data engineering pipelines for efficient data processing. This solution helped to bring disintegrated semi structured and structured data across different geographies at single platform and eventually helped customer to gain business insights and holistic view of overall business spread across various markets and make intelligence based decision.
  • Text mining using NLP techniques for Topic extraction, Sentiment analysis and Intent Classification using RASA NLU Chatbots Framework. This solution was able to classify both Sentiment and Intent with overall 68% accuracy for Intent Classification and 83% accuracy on Sentiment Classification.

Data Scientist/Technical Architect

Yash Technologies Pvt Ltd.
03.2007 - 12.2015
  • Enhanced data-driven decision making by implementing Statistical and Machine learning models and algorithms.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on key initiatives and project goals as well as to define possible hypothesis
  • Cleaned transformed, and analyzed large datasets to uncover hidden trends and patterns for actionable insights.
  • Conducted exploratory data analysis to identify essential variables to build robust models as well as feature engineering efforts to enhance model performance by creating new relevant variables from raw input data sources.
  • Translated business requirements into data-driven solutions, providing value-added insights that directly contributed to the organization''s strategic goals.

Senior BI/Data Analyst

Wipro Technologies
12.2005 - 03.2007
  • Designing Metadata driven Reporting Framework and build custom data visualization reports related to Financial Asset Management to support executive-level strategic decision making.
  • Conducted thorough data validation procedures to ensure the accuracy of all deliverables.

BI/Data Analyst

Scandent Solutions
09.2004 - 12.2005

Understanding Functional Specification, Data Modeling, Report Query formation and Report development using Actuate eRD Pro for Government wing of Family welfare service.

BI Developer

TCS (through Sellcraft)
02.2004 - 09.2004

For one of the leading Telecom provider in UK, understanding business requirement, Building Physical data model using existing Data Mart and building Reports to bring insights on actual resource consumption and efficiency of telecom network across europian region.

Education

MBA - Finance And Banking (Correspondance)

Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India
Hyderabad
01.2011 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Hemachandracharya North Gujarat University
Mehsana, Gujarat
06.1999 - 06.2003

Skills

Statistical Modeling

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Publications

Queue Classification for Fraud type -Banking Analytics, 

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-1274-8_20

Accomplishments

  • Microsoft Azure Data Engineering Associate (DP-203)
  • Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
  • Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
  • Informatica Certified professional (ICP)
  • Six Sigma Green Belt

Timeline

Senior Data Scientist/Data Engineer/Architect

TCS Ltd
01.2016 - Current

MBA - Finance And Banking (Correspondance)

Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India
01.2011 - 06.2014

Data Scientist/Technical Architect

Yash Technologies Pvt Ltd.
03.2007 - 12.2015

Senior BI/Data Analyst

Wipro Technologies
12.2005 - 03.2007

BI/Data Analyst

Scandent Solutions
09.2004 - 12.2005

BI Developer

TCS (through Sellcraft)
02.2004 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Hemachandracharya North Gujarat University
06.1999 - 06.2003
SANDIP KHANTSenior Data Scientist/Data Engineer/Data Architect