Pushkar Shukla
Austin,TX
Summary
8 years of professional experience building data analytics capabilities for Fortune 500 organizations, improving end-user experience and unlocking new revenue streams. Worked with cross-functional teams and key executive stakeholders to extract user, product and market insights and build the world's largest online marketplace for financial derivatives. Master's in Business Analytics at Purdue and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from NTU, Singapore.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Product Data Scientist
FinIQ Consulting
Singapore
06.2018 - 04.2022
- Conversion Rate Optimization: Provided pre-launch and post-launch analytics for multiple new features on order booking product, utilizing behavior flow reports and conducting A/B tests. Improved conversion rates for product usage by 400%.
- Personalization Engine: Developed an XGBoost model to analyze 50mn+ pricing requests and provide personalized information on optimal order parameters for users of the trading platform. This feature had a click-through rates at 78% for users landing on this page.
- Data Warehousing & Visualization Tool: Designed and implemented a data warehouse for trading platform. Ingested pricing data from 30+ banks. Wrote and owned documentation on functional specifications, data model and metadata.
- Real-Time Pricing Engine: Developed pricing model for an online marketplace product at Standard Chartered Bank using Monte Carlo simulation, incorporating multiple real-time market and demand factors. The model was used to price more than 500 derivative products daily post-launch.
- Machine Learning model for stock picking: Developed an algorithm leveraging LSTM, used by United Overseas Bank’s consumer app to recommend personalized stock picks based on predicted month-end returns and user preferences.
- Anomaly Detection Framework: Leveraged XGBoost to identify fat-finger errors on order placed on FinIQ’s online marketplace. The solution flagged 98% of erroneously entered orders to users, reducing business risk and time spent on order correction.
- Time-Series Modeling: Used Holt-Winters and Arima modeling to predict bond yields and compare with market implied yields. The model was used to rank lists of over 1000 bonds for users of fixed income securities online marketplace hosted by FinIQ.
Senior Applications Developer
Oracle
Singapore
02.2013 - 05.2016
- Master Data Management: Developed module to implement customer de-duplication, precedence and survivorship protocols with 35% reduction in manual de-duplication.
- System Design: Implemented domain-driven design principles to modularize Oracle's Banking Platform and expose functionalities through over 500 APIs hosted on Oracle's SOA
- Data Modeling: Designed and implemented model to capture details of multi-party entities and map relationships between complex parties and accounts for loan originations, enabling over 50 new loan cases to be originated.
Analyst
Barclays Capital
Singapore
01.2011 - 06.2011
- Automated reporting tools: Programmed VBA Macros to automate flow of daily end-of-day portfolio positions of the emerging markets credit desk to back-end systems.
Education
Master's in Business Analytics -
Purdue University
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering -
Nanyang Technological University
Skills
- Data cleaning and Feature Engineering
- Supervised Learning (Regression, Decision Trees, Machine Learning Ensemble Models)
- Unsupervised Learning( K-Means clustering, Classification)
- A/B Testing
- Product Road-Mapping
- Consultation and solution design for multi-sided platforms
- Program Management
Tools
- Python (Keras, PyTorch)
- SQL
- R
- Google BigQuery
- Airflow
- Excel (VBA Macros)
- Tableau, PowerBI
Timeline
Senior Product Data Scientist
FinIQ Consulting
06.2018 - 04.2022
Senior Applications Developer
Oracle
02.2013 - 05.2016
Analyst
Barclays Capital
01.2011 - 06.2011
Master's in Business Analytics -
Purdue University
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering -
Nanyang Technological University
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