Nishant Yadav
@nishantyadav
Data Scientist
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Motivated Data Scientist with over 2 years of experience driving data-driven insights and building models to solve business challenges. Proficient in Machine Learning, programming, and cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Databricks. The candidate has experience in building recommendation systems and designing complex data lake architectures.
Experience
Data Scientist
Axis Securities Ltd
E-margin product: Boosted revenue through targeted strategies: Leveraged e-margin for intraday traders and adjusted leverage policies, resulting in a 13-15% exposure increase. Orchestrated a successful contest for growth. Enhanced MF-SIP performance: Evaluated SIP lifecycle, and pinpointed dealer misconduct related to incentives/KRA. Achieved execution rise from ~45% to ~55% in recent 2 months, curbing persistency decline from -25% to -16%.
Data Scientist
Koantek Cloud & AI services (prev. KIPI.BI)
Recommendation Engine for Shopping Website: Designed and deployed an end-to-end recommendation system for a Shopping website, leveraging Spark ALS, FPM, Python Implicit, and Apriori algorithms. Utilized MLFlow on Databricks for model tracking and served optimized recommendations, enhancing user engagement. Predictive Analysis for Pig Farms: Integrated and analyzed 7 datasets for a Pig Farms project, crafting regression/classification models to predict distinct types of pig mortality. Resulting insights empowered effective mitigation strategies, improving overall farm outcomes. AWS Data Lake Design: Built a data lake using services like Glue, Athena, Lambda, and Kinesis Streaming service. Integrated AWS services with Databricks by creating IAM roles on AWS & used it in Databricks workspace as an instance profile.
Education
IIT Dhanbad
Bachelor of Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Licenses & Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Katonic MLOps Certification
Udemy
Databricks Solutions Architect Essentials
Databricks Developer Foundations
Databricks Developer Essentials