SIDDHARTH VIJ

DATA SCIENCE | BIG DATA | PRESALES

Masters in Data Science (2023)

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EXPERIENCE
Sr Lead Data Scientist - Architect - Happiest Minds
JUN 2019 - PRESENT

1. Managed task and project planning and mentored teams while building enterprise
data analytics solutions using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (NLP)
tools.
2. Led multiple proposal calls and infrastructure/architecture finalization calls to bring
in new projects.
3. Implementing an OpenAI GPT 3.5 based service desk chatbot for Ascend Learning
(Ed-tech) that will replace their pre-existing bot while reducing maintenance time and
increasing response rates.
4. Helped 1300 Stores of Fastenal by building an Inventory Forecasting System using
auto-regressive time series forecasting algorithms and Big Data Spark on Azure
Databricks platform
5. Built a data extraction framework using OCR, OpenCV and Azure Form Recognizer
for Aspirion to help analyze customer data from insurance claim forms.
6. (MVP) Helped increase the response rate of conversation system at Fastenal by creating
an auto-suggestion system built using Deep Learning (LSTM Network).
7. Helped Fastenal manage their unanswered questions set by doing Multi-class
classification using Non linear SVM, Random Forest & Boosting algorithms.
8. Azure Devops (CI/CD) based deployment of content curation system for Fastenal built
to manage unanswered question and answers by making use of Clustering (DBSCAN),
Dimensionality Reduction (PCA) and Pre-trained embedding (Universal Sentence
Encoder, Fasttext) techniques.
9. Helped Geometry Global in analyzing marketing collateral of online brands by
understanding the presence of variety of keywords using Word Sense Disambiguation
techniques (BERT), Wordnet, Lemmatization, POS Tagging, Tokenization, N-grams.
The work was published on company's portal and was also presented in MLDS
conference
10. Trained DS, ML and AI teams in using Spark framework on Azure Databricks for
processing data.
11. Assisted Samsung in analyzing their key spending areas by analyzing their ledger
sheets using Topic Modelling Techniques (GSDMM, LDA)
Lead Data Scientist - Team Lead - Happiest Minds
DEC 2016 - MAY 2019

1. Managed Data Science teams while working on Pre-sales activities by supporting

prospect calls and actively doing POC's based on Machine Learning and AI (Vision and
NLP)
2. Created an Analytics platform for Apcela's customers that provides predictive
monitoring capabilities for latency along with dynamic notification system using Holt
Winters and Simple Exponential Smoothing
3. Helped Sedgwick analyze historical claims related bot conversations to find key issues
being faced by end users by using Topic Modelling and Clustering techniques.
4. Helped Aldar constructions create a customer facing chatbot to assist users in
managing their properties at Aldar which eventually helped in easing the buying
process flow. This was done using Google's Dialog Flow
5. Edge Computing (POC), presented in an overseas conference, was developed by
making use of OpenCV, Contour Detection, EAST in order to demonstrate event
driven cooling mechanism.
6. Evaluated speech to text cloud platforms from AWS and Google to eventually use
develop a batch flow to extract text out of ESPN videos.
7. Bot in a week initiative with Microsoft - Participated in 3 chatbot POC's using Microsoft
Azure Luis, QnA Maker, Bot Service to help improve bot prospect conversions.
8. Won 3 awards in yearly tech fest - Blitz - at Happiest Minds.

BI Team Lead - Happiest Minds

MAR 2016 - NOV 2016

1. Manage BI Projects from onshore and handle onshore-offshore coordination for

projects based on multiple tools.
2. Helped ChargePoint understand their EV paradigm by migrating the existing reports
from Pentaho BI to Tableau.
3. Helped Lbrands migrate MicroStrategy reports from Teradata backend to MAPR Drill
Big data system while evaluating performance of reports on the new system.

Principle BI Developer - Tesco Retail

JAN 2015 - FEB 2016

1. Actively working as a BI developer to manage MicrosoStrategy and Tableau related

requirements.
2. Helped Tesco manage changes to MicroStrategy based DSR (Daily Status Report)
and automate excel based report generation.

BI Developer and Product Consultant - Accenture

JUL 2009 - DEC 2014

1. Built a Quality Measurement Tool based on MSTR and SQL Server to help understand
the cost of poor quality (Defects) to Bank of America.
2. Built MicroStrategy based reports and dashboards for SFR (Telco) to analyze the sales
done by distributors.
EDUCATION
M.tech (Ongoing) in Data Science and Engineering from BITS, Pilani (WILP)
2022 - 2023
BE. in Electronics and Communication from MDU
2004 - 2008

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Machine Learning - Classification, Clustering, Cloud - Azure Form Recognizer, Azure ML,

Dimensionality Reduction, Topic Modelling, Azure Databricks, Azure Text to Speech,

Random Forest, SVM, Boosting Algorithms, Azure QnA Maker, Azure Luis, Google

Auto-regressive and smoothing algorithms for Dialogflow, Azure Devops (CI/CD)

Time Series Forecasting. Big Data - PySpark, Hive, MAPR Drill

Deep Learning - OpenAI GPT, LSTM, Pre- DWH - MicroStrategy, Tableau, SQL Server

trained models (Bert, Sentence Encoder),

OpenCV, OCR