Tirth Parekh

Tirth Parekh

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Aspiring Data Scientist/ Machine Learning Engineer | MISM-BIDA Graduate student @CMU | Ex-Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Education

    • Pace Junior College of Engineering

      2015 - 2017
      HSC Science 87%
    • Cambridge School, Kandivali

      2002 - 2015
      ICSE School 95%
    • Carnegie Mellon University

      2023 - 2024
      Master's degree Management Information Systems - Business Intelligence and Data Analytics 3.8
    • Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai

      2017 - 2021
      Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology 8.94/10
  • Experience

    • Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai

      Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

      Teaching Assistant of Math Professor at Sardar Patel Institute Of Technology. Assisted professors in grading and preparing assignments as well as assisted juniors struggling with the subject by solving their doubts, understanding the content better and improving their scores as the Teaching Assistant to a Mathematics professor at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, 2019-2020. Organized Inter-college Sports fest, Marathon, and Intra-college sports activities at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology as Executive Head of the Sports Committee for 2019-2020 managing all the sporting events, ceremonies, guests, sponsors, permissions, equipment, and overall smooth functioning of all the competitions.

      • Teaching Assistant

        Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
      • Executive Head Of College Sports Committee

        Jul 2019 - May 2020
    • Empays Payment Systems Ltd

      Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
      Machine Learning Intern

      Developed a bank ChatBot using Flask and Google DialogFlow to provide human like execution of user banking actions like performing transactions, expenditures, balances, bank statement, payees, card details, account details etc.

    • JPMorgan Chase & Co.

      Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
      Software Engineer

      • Incorporated SDLC practices to manage software system that performs reconciliations on 100M financial markets data• Managed ETL pipelines and integrated Kafka, reducing streaming time from 3 hours to 18 minutes for 1 million records• Equipped advanced ML modelling techniques including feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning within a Random Forest classifier, to auto-match records, resulting in a 2% increase in match rate across high-dimensional financial datasets. • Adapted microservices architecture; reduced UI search times by 20% by persisting data to NoSQL database Elasticsearch • Led cross-functional stakeholder interactions to onboard businesses, displaying communication and collaboration• Migrated applications to Kubernetes, AWS; applied cloud computing to improve reliability and reduce cost by 8%• Deployed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate the build, testing, and deployment processes for software releases.• Minimized break report generation time by 25% by optimizing SQL queries, restructuring tables, and adding indexes• Utilized REST APIs to fetch data from web app; deployed dashboards to monitor data collection, insights and analysis Show less

    • Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

      Oct 2023 - Aug 2024

      • Devised machine learning model linear regression to predict students’ performance based on their progress, allowing to provide focused extra guidance which improved grades by 12%• Implemented a new task replacement feature in Spring Boot and React to improve platform design and user experience • Strategically orchestrated the AI and ML course by updating and introducing tasks on NumPy, Pandas, Data Mining, NLP, and ML modelling to better cater learning objectives• Redesigned the auto-grading web app architecture by incorporating Kafka to improve streaming performance by 10%

      • AI and Software Intern

        May 2024 - Aug 2024
      • Research Assistant

        Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Machine Learning

      Fractal
      Dec 2019
    • Convolutional Neural Networks

      Coursera
      May 2021
    • Data Visualization

      Fractal
      Apr 2019
    • Data Analysis in Python

      Fractal
      Dec 2018
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Tirth Parekh
      Collaborative Writing 3rd Place World Scolars Cup Won 3rd place at world scholars cup regional round in Mumbai in 2014 and participated at World scholars cup global round in Singapore in 2015