About

Anchit Choudhry is a Full Stack Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the field of data science and web development. He is currently working as an Assistant Vice President - Full Stack Data Scientist at Credit Suisse, where he is responsible for sourcing, transforming, and integrating large and complex data sets from various data sources into Hadoop using Apache Sqoop and Linux Shell scripting. Anchit has extensive knowledge of finance, with a primary focus on equities and prime brokerage. He is skilled in determining the most effective ways to store data in Hadoop HDFS/NoSQL stores such as HBase/MongoDB for efficient visualization and low-latency querying on time-series data. Anchit is also proficient in performing detailed analysis, cleaning, data quality checks, outlier detection, normalization, feature engineering/scaling, and transformation on inherent data using Spark with Python/Scala. He is experienced in constructing supervised and unsupervised, highly scalable, machine learning models across business use cases, including Time-Series analysis, clustering, statistical scoring, regression models, decision trees, and support vector machines in Spark MLlib/Python scikit-learn. Anchit is skilled in designing and developing web services/APIs to create a data pipeline from the user interface to data stored in Hadoop, HBase, or MongoDB using Java. He is also proficient in creating and building UI and presentation layers to demonstrate gathered data insights using AngularJS and Tableau for traders and senior management to better analyze their current trading decisions and determine future trading strategies and opportunities for revenue growth. Anchit has mentored Agile teams, performed code reviews, and implemented software engineering best practices and automated continuous integration and continuous delivery improvements. He has worked with Credit Suisse in the past as a Technical Analyst - Full Stack Data Scientist for Investment Banking Equities Prime Services Technology - Pricing and Securities Lending. Anchit holds a Bachelor of Technology - BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from SRM University. His tech stack includes Data Scientist, Research Scientist, Web, Hadoop, Software Engineer, Spark, ML, MongoDB, HDFS, Normalization, Python, Scikit, CI/CD, NoSQL, Integration, UI, Scala, and Java.