Yeshwanth Buma Ramesh Babu

ADDRESS: 6 Mathuvar Street, Chitlapakkam, Chennai 600064 • CONTACT: 9840371776 • EMAIL: yb2372@columbia.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ASACO Private Limited (100% acquired by MRL Projects) Hyderabad, India
Financial Analyst - Analytics Dec’ 2020 – Jun’2021
• Implemented ERP software across departments thus identifying manufacturing costs accurately, better resource
planning and reduced tooling cost by 14%
• Liaised with an AI product startup to develop a real-time KPI dashboard for the production and planning department
• Instrumental in transforming people driven culture to process-oriented day to day manufacturing operations according
to AS9100D standards
MRL Projects (Single Family Office) Hyderabad, India
Financial Analyst Dec’ 2018 – Nov’ 2020
• Trading in futures and options for company proprietary account based on technical analysis and fundamentals
• Due diligence of potential companies to be acquired in the precision manufacturing industry
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
Modus Capital New York, NY
Interim Business Development Analyst Sep’ 2017 – Mar’ 2018
• Built valuation models and developed business action plans for a communication-based board games startup and an
entertainment events app
• Conducted research on investors (HNI/Institutional) present in the MENA region
• Took part in fundraising strategy meetings with startup founders and partners at Modus Capital
Alexander Alternative Capital GP, LLC Miami, FL
Quantitative Analyst Intern Jun’ 2016 – Sep’ 2016
• Performed sector analysis for rebalancing AAC portfolio using fundamental macro-economic indicators
• Mined AAC twitter account using tweepy and spark API to get useful insights for marketing campaign
• Analyzed regional bank stocks based on performance ratios by using linear regression model and listed potential
long/short banking stocks
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Linear Models Regression Clustering
Classification R Programming (GLM, GBM, Python (NumPy, Pandas)
randomforest, caret, tree)
SQL Tableau Excel
Worked with AWS and GCP Simulation Optimization
ANALYTICS EXPOSURE
Columbia University New York, NY
Predicting hourly bike rentals for NYC bike sharing program Jan’ 2017 – May’ 2017
• Zoned Citi bike dataset using K-means clustering and aggregated it with weather data by hour
• Performed EDA by visualizing the dataset to identify trends and seasonality
• Used regression techniques like OLS, Lasso and Ridge in R to estimate the significant variables
• Modeled random forest regression in R to predict hourly bike rentals with best RMSLE of 0.65
Quantitatively analyzed the impact of cyber security incidents on stock prices Apr’ 2016 – May’ 2016
• Calculated daily abnormal returns and performed Z-test to rank the significance of cumulative abnormal returns
• Identified change point in the abnormal returns time series using binary segmentation model in R
EDUCATION
Columbia University New York, NY
Master of Science in Operations Research Jan’ 2016 – May’ 2017
Relevant Coursework: Business Analytics, Optimization, Applied Consulting, Simulation, Probability & Statistics,
Corporate Finance, Financial Engineering, Pricing Models
SUNY at Farmingdale Farmingdale, NY
Bachelor of Science Aug’ 2014 – May’ 2015
PSG Institute of Advanced Studies Coimbatore, India
Bachelor of Science Jul’ 2011 – Apr’ 2014
Relevant Coursework: Economics for Business Decisions, Business Statistics