
Akshay Singh Thakur

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About me
Data Engineer
Education

St. Xavier's School, Bhopal
2004 - 201612th • 82% • P.C.M. • C.B.S.E.10th • 9 cgpa

LNCT Group of Colleges
2016 - 2020Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering 8.3
Experience

InfoCepts
Nov 2020 - Feb 2023-> Led data engineering initiatives for NBC Universal, integrating PySpark to streamline data processing, resulting in a 35% reduction in data preparation time.-> Designed and implemented scalable ETL pipelines using Azure Datafactory and Databricks, processing over 5TB of daily media data with 99.9% uptime.-> Optimized complex SQL queries and Hive scripts, boosting query performance by 60% and enabling faster data-driven decision making.-> Developed and maintained data lakes on Azure, implementing partitioning and compression strategies that reduced storage costs by 25%.-> Architected a unified analytics platform, integrating data from multiple media channels and processing over 1 billion daily events.-> Implemented real-time data streaming with Kafka and Spark Streaming, reducing data latency from hours to minutes and enabling cross-platform performance analysis.-> Leveraged advanced data modeling techniques, leading to a 15% increase in advertising revenue through optimized content placement. Show less
Executive Analyst
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023Associate Analyst
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022

Accenture
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024BI Engineering Analyst-> Spearheaded campaign-level analysis for Sainsbury's, a major UK retailer, implementing PySpark to enhance data processing efficiency by 40% and improve analytical insights.-> Developed and optimized forecasting models using PySpark and SQL in Snowflake, resulting in a 25% increase in campaign targeting accuracy.-> Engineered and maintained dashboards, leveraging Azure Datafactory pipeline for data ingestion and Azure Databricks for transformation, reducing report generation time by 30%.-> Orchestrated automation of data loading process through Airflow, enabling real-time monitoring of Campaign KPIs and improving decision-making speed by 50%.-> Designed and implemented a comprehensive dashboard that consolidated data from multiple sources, providing real-time insights into campaign performance.-> Resulted in a 20% increase in campaign ROI through data-driven optimizations. Show less

Synechron
Aug 2024 - nowSenior Associate - Data EngineerHelping Australia's largest retail banker streamline their cards' data processing and analytics.
Licenses & Certifications

Programming in C
Spoken Tutorials, IIT BombayApr 2017- View certificate

Javascript
SoloLearn - View certificate

Java
SoloLearn - View certificate

MySQL
SoloLearn - View certificate

Support Vector Machines in Python
UdemyMay 2020 - View certificate

Python
SoloLearn 
Programming in java
NPTELJan 2019- View certificate

Decision Trees, Random Forests, AdaBoost & XGBoost in Python
UdemyMay 2020 - View certificate

Deep Learning with Google Colab
UdemyApr 2020 
Data Structure & Algorithms
UdemyMar 2020
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Akshay Singh Thakurfinalist in SMART INDIA HACKATHON HARDWARE EDITION MHRD, AICTE Jul 2019 We submitted our project Sensible bin's idea and video for the judges at SIH for scrutiny, and after a couple of weeks we were selected for the finals and were called at IIT ROORKEE for the final competition. There at IITR, we were supposed to make it in work in the next 5 days. As our project which is based on Machine learning and Image recognition was already complete, we had enough time to make it visually appealing. Although we could not make it to the top 3s, we had the fun of our… Show more We submitted our project Sensible bin's idea and video for the judges at SIH for scrutiny, and after a couple of weeks we were selected for the finals and were called at IIT ROORKEE for the final competition. There at IITR, we were supposed to make it in work in the next 5 days. As our project which is based on Machine learning and Image recognition was already complete, we had enough time to make it visually appealing. Although we could not make it to the top 3s, we had the fun of our lives, along with great learning experience. Show less
- Awarded to Akshay Singh ThakurJURY Choice award at HACKFEST Jabalpur-2019 JABALPUR SMART CITY LTD. Jan 2019 Our project on Solid Waste Management caught some attention at the HACKFEST and out of 200 teams, we were lucky enough to get the runner up title. Our project was to segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in the dustbin itself.
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