Akash Verma
Head Of Data
Jakarta
Summary
Data Scientist/Engineer with 9+ years of experience executing data-driven solutions to increase efficiency, accuracy, and utility of internal data processing. Experienced at creating data pipelines for ETL, machine learning models, using predictive data modeling, and analyzing data mining algorithms to deliver insights and implement action-oriented solutions to complex business problems.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of Data
Hypefast
Jakarta
05.2021 - 09.2022
- Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
- Participated in team projects, demonstrating an ability to work collaboratively and effectively.
- Define the framework for data services (data cleansing, data migration, data analysis, data extraction, etc.)
- Provide leadership and expertise in data quality to challenge, support, enable and improve data quality
- Build an R&D tool for fashion and Health & Beauty categories to identify Product performance based on different parameters (Colors, Pattern, Materials, etc)
- Mentored and reviewed the team's design, algorithm, and code in an effective manner.
- Develop deep learning solutions to identify future trends in the fashion industry.
- Worked closely with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Engineers, and business teams to identify business opportunities to solve business problems.
- Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
Lead Data Engineer
Capella Digicrats Indonesia
Jakarta
03.2019 - 04.2021
- Leading 4 members of Data Engineering and Analytics team.
- Architecting data pipelines for customer data platform from scratch.
- Analyzing raw data and transforming into usable format for Digital marketing campaigns.
- Generated detailed studies on potential third-party data handling solutions, verifying compliance with internal needs and stakeholder requirements.
- Designed compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with state and data security guidelines.
- Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
- Contributed to internal activities for overall process improvements, efficiencies and innovation.
- Define the framework for data services (data cleansing, data migration, data analysis, data extraction, etc.)
Data Engineer
Tokopedia
Jakarta
10.2017 - 02.2019
- Build and Lead team of 4 members to handle data engineering/migration and competitive intelligence projects as well as on demand analyses and web scraping with different teams.
- Architect data pipelines for customer data platform (CDP) and Unified Data Platform from scratch.
- Competitive Intelligence:- Developed web crawler solutions for pricing comparison with competitors and import shop products to Tokopedia website which using NSQ and deployed on Apache Airflow.
- Develop Image classification model using Tensorflow to identify correct uploaded images of sunglasses on products.
- Automated shopping campaigns creation on Google Adwords using python and check rank of Tokopedia ads on Google shopping.
- Develop Referral Fraud Detection using machine learning to detect fraud transactions.
- Automate ETL process for BigQuery and Aliyun cloud (PostGres) using Scala and python.
Technology Analyst
LiquidHub Inc.
Gurgaon
05.2016 - 06.2017
- Automate process with Google and Bing search crawling and create name entity recognition model to identify organization names using NLTK and Stanford NER.
- Agreement Search Tool :- Create strings to search organization names of spelling mistakes or similar names and collected related records by using partial ratio “gestalt pattern matching” algorithm.
- Crawl products from retail/brand websites to find new added products.
- Conducted exploratory analysis on sales data, developing interactive dashboards to monitor sales operations.
Sr. Software Engineer
Magic FoodBox India Pvt Ltd, The Frying Pan
New Delhi
10.2015 - 05.2016
- Information related to Recipes is extracted from various leading websites and transform them as required.
- Write machine learning algorithms for cuisines, meal category, recipe tags and serving size etc.
- Insert data to MongoDB through python/scrappy and also to S3 bucket through Django API with python script.
- Built outstanding and dynamic team of software engineers and developers which significantly boosted overall success of organization.
- Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
Application Developer
QL2 Software
Gurgaon
03.2014 - 07.2015
- Develop web crawlers for retail, airfare, hotels and other domain websites.
- Competitive intelligence on product prices and categories data.
- Sentiment Analysis on product reviews using machine learning/ NLP.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science
IIIT Bangalore
Bengaluru, India 06.2020 - 06.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Lucknow 07.2009 - 07.2013
Skills
Data Migration
ETL
Statistical analysis
Machine learning
Team management
Web Scraping / Web Crawling
BigQuery/GCP
Problem Solving
Data Audits
Timeline
Head of Data
Hypefast
05.2021 - 09.2022
Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science
IIIT Bangalore
06.2020 - 06.2021
Lead Data Engineer
Capella Digicrats Indonesia
03.2019 - 04.2021
Data Engineer
Tokopedia
10.2017 - 02.2019
Technology Analyst
LiquidHub Inc.
05.2016 - 06.2017
Sr. Software Engineer
Magic FoodBox India Pvt Ltd, The Frying Pan
10.2015 - 05.2016
Application Developer
QL2 Software
03.2014 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Uttar Pradesh Technical University
07.2009 - 07.2013