About

Sanika Bhagat is a Software Development Engineer II - Data at Expedia Group with a passion for finding patterns in messy data. With a keen interest in data analysis, data visualization, business intelligence, building data pipelines, predictive analytics, and forecasting, Sanika is a diligent problem solver with the ability to quickly grasp new concepts. Sanika's technical skills include proficiency in Python, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, R, and various databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle 18c, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MongoDB. She is also experienced in data integration tools such as Talend, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Alteryx, and Tableau Prep, and has expertise in data visualization using Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, Microsoft Excel, and TIBCO Spotfire. Sanika's machine learning skills include linear and logistic regression, classification (decision trees, random forest, SVM, Naive Bayes), and clustering. She is also experienced in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, version control tools such as Git and Bitbucket, and big-data technologies such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, and MongoDB. Sanika has previously worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Northeastern University and as a Business Intelligence Developer Intern at Dimensional Insight. At Dimensional Insight, she gathered, transformed, and cleansed data from multiple sources for Healthcare Applications, created integrator scripts (custom SQL) to analyze data insights, developed forecasting models to forecast the number of Emergency Department visits in the future, and implemented predictive models using decision trees, random forest, and logistic regression to predict the number of appointment no-shows based on patient data and appointment data. Sanika also automated major feature changes in the Healthcare applications by creating Python scripts and delivered a presentation on "Data Science Meets Diver Platform" at Dimensional Insight User Conference 2019. Sanika holds a Master of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Datta Meghe College of Engineering (DMCE), Airoli. Her tech stack includes software engineering, SQL, random forest, MongoDB, integration, Jupyter, Naive Bayes, SVM, web technologies, Spark, MapReduce, Python, Docker, Javascript, machine learning, MySQL, Hadoop, Java, Apache Hive, and data science. With 5.78 years of relevant experience, Sanika is a skilled and dedicated