About

Sahaj Shukla is an experienced Analyst at BlackRock with a passion for using data to find customized solutions for clients. He has interned for three start-ups across India, Singapore, and the US as a Business Analyst and Business Developer. During his internship at Denkali, he worked in a small group and directly coordinated with the CEO and investors to produce insights using data. He also contributed to the process of data generation and capturing itself, using technologies like Fabric and Google Analytics to display results and make sense out of the data using dashboards. At Technical Consultancy and Research, he was employed as a Statistical Data Mining Analyst Intern, working with the text mining team to gather text-based insights using various APIs and making sense out of their data. Sahaj's core competencies include data visualization, insight generation, process innovation, workflow optimization, problem-solving, design of experiments, advanced statistics and statistical modeling, risk analysis, financial decision making, blockchains, and design thinking. His technical skills include Python, R, SQL, MongoDB, C, MATLAB, Scala, Hadoop, MapReduce, Node JS, JQuery, AJAX, PHP, HTML5, and CSS. He is also proficient in tools like MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word), basics of Tableau, Power BI, Firebase, Apache Spark, AWS EC2, S3, Kinesis, and REST APIs. Sahaj's relevant experience of 1.35 years includes his work as a Data Scientist at Elitefit, where he devised a mechanism to connect frontend and backend with API calls using Postman and Flask, formulated a scoring logic for user poses in comparison to instructor poses with 93% accuracy, and created a React applet for separate and faster data gathering. He also reduced video load time by 0.3 seconds per video and initiated the deployment of static components such as videos on AWS bucket and dynamic services on AWS EFS. Sahaj's education includes a Master of Science in Business Intelligence and Analytics from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from SIES College.