Nikhil B M

Nikhil B M

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  • About me

    Experienced Data Scientist and Data Engineer with 3 years of experience. ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ @ ๐‹๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ | ๐˜Š๐˜œ ๐˜‰๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ | ๐˜”๐˜๐˜› ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ญ

  • Education

    • University of Colorado Boulder

      2022 - 2023
      Master of Science - MS Data Science 4.0

      โ€ข Relevant course work: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data Architecture, Cybersecurity for Data Science and Statistical Methods & Applications, Recommender Systems.

    • Little Rock Indian School

      2014 - 2016
      High School 90
    • Manipal Academy of Higher Education

      2016 - 2020
      Bachelor's degree Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering 8.94/10
  • Experience

    • National Institute of Technology Karnataka

      May 2018 - Jul 2018
      Research Intern

      I interned at NITK, Surathkal under Proff.Sripathi Acharya(http://ece.nitk.ac.in/faculty/u-sripati) during my summer off. This internship was research orientated. I worked in the areas of Digital and Optical Communication. From building a transmitter- receiver system to error coding techniques were implemented.

    • KarMic Design Private Ltd

      Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
      Research Internship

      Implemented I2C master bus controller for combining various microcontrollers on FPGA using Xilinx; increased the performance of master bus by 10%.

    • Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

      May 2019 - Jul 2019
      Summer Intern

      โ€ข Developed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in upscaling a low-resolution scale 10 satellite image to a higher-resolution scale 30 image; enhanced image detection performance by 25%.โ€ข Designed a Super Resolution GAN using ResNet with skip-connections and loss functions tweaked to optimize the model.

    • Deloitte

      Sept 2020 - Jul 2022
      Data Engineer

      โ€ข Led automation of generating temporal business extracts; used ETL tools like Dataiku, Oracle SQL; reducing 50Hrs of manual work per extract and 75% of client expense.โ€ข Spearheaded an interactive analytical dashboard to find a correlation between databases from various python data warehouses, reducing manual comparison by 25%.โ€ข Developed ETL mappings to move data from multiple data sources into a data warehouse; simplified existing ETL mappings; decreasing run time by 15%.โ€ข Led a team of 5 to develop Git pipelines for performing ETL using AWS Lambda, GLUE, and Spark; cutting down manual work by 10hrs.โ€ข Trained and mentored junior programmers in ETL methodologies; cutting down time for development by 20%.โ€ข Directed various build activities aligning underlying architecture with business requirements, addressing business issues, data reloads, and building data pipelines using Informatica BDM, AWS Glue, and Git pipelines. Show less

    • Lumen Technologies

      Jun 2023 - now

      โ€ข Spearheaded the development of machine learning models, encompassing regression and boosting algorithms to enable Work In Progress(WIP) forecasting; 28% improvement in weekly, and 10% improvement in daily forecast accuracy for the WIP pipeline.โ€ข Led the acquisition and an extensive Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) of WIP data; facilitated identification of critical patterns, trends, and data drifts; 25% improvement from the baseline model.โ€ข Strategically leveraged domain knowledge, statistical tests, regularization, and regression techniques for feature engineering, feature elimination, and optimized variable assessment; reducing dimensionality by 60%. โ€ข Collaborated with solution architects, and key stakeholders in refining the requirements, data collection and preparation process, adhering to the company policies, and ensuring data integrity. โ€ข Architected comprehensive business reporting and dashboard using PowerBI, focusing on the modelโ€™s performance; providing real-time performance tracking; and facilitating a data-driven decision process.โ€ข Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, developing and optimizing strategies, and implementing solutions. Show less

      • Data Scientist

        Aug 2023 - now
      • Data Science Intern

        Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
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