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Varun Kumar R

Machine Learning Engineer
Chennai

Summary

I have 1.5 years of IT experience and have completed PGP in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from IIT Madras. I am actively exploring roles in Machine Learning, Strategy and Analytics.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-kumar-r-1aa25625b/

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2020 - 11.2021


Segment - Frictionless Customer Onboarding for APAC and EMEA Region, CITI Bank


Role Description


  • Business requirement gathering, Requirement analysis and Feasibility analysis for the changes proposed by the business at the start of each product cycle.
  • Writing functional requirement documents, technical documents and determining functional specifications.
  • Coordination with Business, Development and Testing team to analyze the effort estimation for FR writing.
  • Supporting Development and Testing teams for requirement related queries.


Tools Used - Jira, Confluence and MS Excel.


Research Assistant

Indian Institute Of Public Administration
02.2017 - 05.2017


Project Title - Addressing Public Grievances: A Study of Grievances received on CPGRAMS by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India,2018.


Role Description


  • A sample of grievances lodged during period of three years i.e. from April 2014 to April 2017 in Centralized Public Grievance Redress Mechanism portal against various nodal agencies were analyzed.
  • A detailed descriptive analysis of each grievance was compiled and a spread sheet was created to tabulate the various metrics of each grievance.
  • The findings were presented in the form of charts and pivot tables to highlight the drawbacks in the existing system and changes were recommended to improve the efficiency of the grievance redressal mechanism.


Tools Used - MS Excel and IBM SPSS.

Education

Post Graduate Program - Applied Data Science And Machine Learning

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2001 -

Post Graduate Certificate Program - Business Analytics And Data Science

SSN School of Advanced Career Education
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2001 -

Master of Business Administration - Marketing

Hindustan Institute of Technology And Science
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Shiv Nadar University
Delhi NCR
04.2001 -

Skills

● Data Analytics                                                            

● Data Visualization
● Market Research                                                         

● Marketing and Sales Analytics.

● Machine Learning                

● Artificial Intelligence

Tools

  • Python ( VS Studio Code)
  • SQL
  • Power BI
  • MS Excel

Projects

GitHub Link - https://github.com/VarunKumarR1994


  • NLP News Title Classification - Web Scrapping, Data Cleaning, Text Vectorization, Topic Clustering, Topic Labeling, Classification Model, Model Evaluation. Tools Used - VS Studio Code.


The news titles were scrapped from BBC website. Tokenization and Lemmetization were performed on the news titles. Text Vectorization was done using Word2Vec. Topic Clustering was done using K means clustering. The news titles were labeled manually based on the clustering. The model was evaluated using both SVM and Naive Bayes. The accuracy of the model was found to be 0.947 in both the cases.


  • Singapore Real Estate ML Regression - Data Collection, Feature Engineering, Model Selection, Model Evaluation, Streamlit Web Application, Render Deployment, Testing and Validation. Tools Used - VS Studio Code, Streamlit, Render.


Singapore Housing and Development Board flat resale data was given to perform ML Regression. Exploratory Data Analysis was performed on the given features. Random Forest, Decision Tree and Gradient Boost algorithms were used to perform the regression. The dependent feature is Resale Price and the independent features are Lease Commence Date and Floor Area. The Coefficients of Determination were found to be 0.586, 0.553 and 0.582 respectively. 


Web application using Streamlit was created for the users to input the details of a flat and predict resale price. The Streamlit application was deployed on render to make it accessible for users on the internet.


Timeline

Assistant Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2020 - 11.2021

Research Assistant

Indian Institute Of Public Administration
02.2017 - 05.2017

Post Graduate Program - Applied Data Science And Machine Learning

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
04.2001 -

Post Graduate Certificate Program - Business Analytics And Data Science

SSN School of Advanced Career Education
04.2001 -

Master of Business Administration - Marketing

Hindustan Institute of Technology And Science
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Shiv Nadar University
04.2001 -
Varun Kumar RMachine Learning Engineer