CHAITANYA SHAH

Gurgaon, India| (+91) 9408669007 | sc24@iitbbs.ac.in

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-shah-a1110b144
EDUCATION
Year Degree Institute %/CGPA
2020 CFA Level 2 (Candidate) CFA Institute -
2019 CFA Level 1 CFA Institute Cleared
2015 – 2019 B.Tech (Metallurgical and Materials Engg.) IIT Bhubaneswar 8.3/10
2015 12th – CBSE Navrachana School Sama, Vadodara 93%
2013 10th - CBSE Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s, Vadodara 10/10
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Awarded “Rookie of the Batch” at Publicis Sapient Honoured as “Research Partner” by TSIL
 Developed fully automated CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using Groovy & Jenkins
Software Developer
 On boarded Docker containers, reducing end to end deployment time by 70% 2019-Present
Publicis Sapient
 Awarded Rookie of the batch in a batch on 30 trainees during the training period
Research Intern  Developed Linear Regression Models in Excel to predict the quality of finished product
2018
Tata Sponge Iron Ltd.  Built ANN & ELM Models in MATLAB & R to vary parameters to keep quality in check
Summer Intern  Analysed the impact of Demonetization & GST on Kolkata Residential Real Estate Market
2017
JLL  Segmented Kolkata based on income group by analysing the critical cost & rent ratios
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Research Publication in Springer Presented paper at Int’l conference Top 10 State Rank - IMO, NSO 2013
 Presented a paper at 7th International conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS) on AI
techniques for dynamic operational management of sponge iron rotary kiln
 Honoured as Research Partner by Tata Sponge Iron Limited for cost reduction by x% 60 crores annually
Academic Accolades
 Awarded for the Best Seminar in Metallurgy Department (Seminar topic: 3-D Printing)
 Among 0.01% to score more than or equal to 99 marks in Class 12 CBSE Maths
 Secured 3rd Rank in National Level Inter-School Mathematics Quiz organized by Essar International School
Cleared CFA Level 1 – 2019 99.46 %ile – JEE Advanced 2015 99.27 %ile – JEE Mains 2015
Scholastic Distinctions
State Rank 7 – NSO 2013 State Rank 6 – IMO 2013 City Rank 4 – IOM 2012
 Completed Azure Fundamental Certification (AZ900) exam.
Certifications  Completed 15+ online courses in Data Science, Finance, and Financial Modelling.
 Completed 5 Capstone Projects in Statistics, Machine Learning and Algorithm Trading.
PROJECTS
 Calculated technical indicators (MACD, ATR) by scraping data from Yahoo Finance & Wiki using Python libraries
Algorithm Trading  Backtested various strategies like Portfolio Rebalancing, Resistance Breakout among others
 Implemented Magic Formula and Piotroski F-Score (Value Investing) in Python
Natural Language  Predicted the movement of Oil prices by doing Sentiment Analysis on news articles
Processing  Calculated the review score by doing Sentiment Analysis on the subjective reviews
Credit Risk Modelling  Designed a model to predict probability of default by examining the credit worthiness of borrowers in Python
 Risk and Return of Portfolio, Correlation, Different types of Risks, CAPM, Efficient Frontier
Python for Finance
 Monti Carlo Simulations, Euler Discretization and Black-Scholes-Merton implementation
Machine Learning &  K-Means Clustering & Decision Tree model on Titanic and Diabetes dataset respectively
Time Series Analysis  Implemented Autocorrelation & ARIMA Modelling to predict google trends of few keywords
Process Optimization  Implemented data-driven optimization techniques for improving product quality using ELM, ANN & MLR
Predictive Modelling  Predicted selling price of houses using Multiple Linear Regression, Statistical analysis & Hypothesis testing
SKILLS
Programming  C/C++, SQL, Python, R, Microsoft Excel
Libraries in Python &  Python: pandas, numpy, re, matplotlib, seaborn, nlt, sklearn, statsmodels, BeautifulSoup, requests, pickle
R  R: ggplot2, dplyr, statsr, BAS, MASS, elmNN
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Governor  Spearheaded a team of 50+ to organize Teaching Camps & Sports events in 3 villages near our campus
Social Welfare Group  Organized the first ever blood donation camp in our permanent campus
IIT BBS (17-18)  Made our campus plastic free for one whole semester by making paper bags from waste newspapers
Handled budget of INR 5L+ Hosted 450+ delegates & 30+guests 25% y-o-y rise in participation
Director General
 Recruited, on-boarded and led team of 20+; managed end-to-end operations, logistics & hospitality
MUN (17-18)
 Conceptualized, implemented & chaired first ever intra-college MUN, mentoring 40+ new-comers
Core Head  Coordinated with 140+ students across 25+ events; on-boarded 40+ member team across 2 batches
Cultural Fest (17-18)  Closed 12 sponsorship deals worth INR 6L+; increased social media reach by 30% via 3 campaigns
Football Secretary  Coordinated with the coach to organise weekly practices & conducted trials for 100+ students.
IIT BBS (16-17)  Formulated the Yearly Sports Budget and Inter-IIT Sports Budget for calendar year 16-17.