Keval Padsala

Keval Padsala

Web scraping Expert

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Data Engineer | Data Scientist | Data Scraping | Cloud | Python | SQL

  • Education

    • Loyalist College

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      Postgraduate Degree AI & Data Science Dean's List

      Academic Projects:House Price Prediction: • Build a Scraper to scrape details from Realtor and train model using the real data available in the market. • Created ML models using scikit-learn which helps to predict house price based on details provide and past learned data. • Use Random Forest, XGBoost and SVM to predict price.Credit Card Fraud Detection: • Employed exploratory data analysis, data preprocessing, and various ML algorithms for credit card fraud… Show more Academic Projects:House Price Prediction: • Build a Scraper to scrape details from Realtor and train model using the real data available in the market. • Created ML models using scikit-learn which helps to predict house price based on details provide and past learned data. • Use Random Forest, XGBoost and SVM to predict price.Credit Card Fraud Detection: • Employed exploratory data analysis, data preprocessing, and various ML algorithms for credit card fraud detection. • Utilized data sampling techniques, including SMOTE and ADASYN, and ML(KNN, Random Forest, SVM) and deep learning (ANNs) for improved fraud detection. • Evaluation metrics such as F1-score, confusion matrix, and ROC curves were employed.The model was optimized through hyperparameter tuning to achieve the best performance. Show less

    • Dharmsinh Desai University

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      Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering

      Tweet Sentiment Analysis: • Technologies used: Python, ML libraries scikit-learn, Tweepy(Twitter API), SVM, NLTK.The project aims to download tweets as per time and subject or person and classify tweets positive or negative using the Support Vector Machine(SVM) classifier.

  • Experience

    • Upwork

      Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
      Web scraping Expert

      I have been working on Upwork as a web scraping engineer for the different clients across the globe. I am using cutting-edge technology like python programming, selenium web driver and automation, Scrapy framework, and beautifulsoup4 libraries to develop data-driven solutions.I also helped in data mining for small startups and companies.

    • GoForClose

      Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
      Data Engineer

      • Developed Actors using Apify and Node.js to extract tax histories of United States residents from over 35 counties' websites.• Implemented data wrangling and Scheduler for automated annual data scraping, transferring the data to MySQL via REST API.• Utilized various Proxies and Session Techniques (Cheerio, Puppeteer, Playwright) to enable data extraction from diverse websites.

    • MIT Consulting

      Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
      Data Engineer

      Customer Experience Improvement:Created a Data Pipeline with Apache Airflow to store data in MySQL and AWS S3.Used Tweepy to collect relevant tweets from Twitter API. Cleaned data by removing irrelevant information and non-English text.Designed Python Operators in Apache Airflow for workflow management.Performed Data Cleaning with Pandas and NumPy and applied text normalization using NLTK and Spacy.Stored preprocessed data in Amazon Redshift for Power BI dashboards.Implemented an online ordering system with Kafka for real-time data capture.Utilized Spark Streaming for real-time data processing and analytics.Enabled personalized product recommendations based on customer behavior.Analyzed order data to identify trends and insights. Show less

    • Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software)

      Apr 2024 - now
      Software Developer (Python)
  • Licenses & Certifications