About

Sarthak Agarwal is a highly skilled Data Scientist with over 6 years of experience in the field. He has a strong background in data structures, algorithms, data science, natural language processing, and full-stack development. Sarthak has hands-on experience in data cleaning, feature engineering, modeling, parameters tuning, ensembling, data processing, PCA, building predictive classification models using LR, SVM, RandomForest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and libraries like scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, Bert, and Keras. Currently working as a Data Scientist at S&P Global, Sarthak is part of a team that generates insights for clients and comes up with go-to strategies to make maximum impact in the right direction. He has also worked as a Software Engineer on backend technologies with experience in Python, MySql, Shell Scripting, and Jenkins. Sarthak has worked on full-stack projects on the MERN stack, giving him good experience in handling end-to-end systems. In his previous role as a Data Scientist at Telus International, Sarthak worked in the telecom domain, using his data analysis and model building approaches to build business value for the client. He reduced call rerouting by 40% by predicting the final waiting queue that a customer call should be routed to, based on historical customer, call, and customer's product features. He also succeeded in saving a week of man-hours and efforts for the client on a regular basis by predicting the types and levels of training required for customer care representatives based on customer reviews. Sarthak built an in-house abuse detection and sarcasm detection model to filter out abusive or insulting comments and detect sarcasm. This model is being used alongside their in-house chatbot for emotion detection from the chat and enhancing query resolution. Before that, Sarthak worked as a Technical Associate at PolicyBazaar, where he was involved in the overall project development cycle from the requirements gathering phase to the deployment phase. He reduced the business team's efforts and man-hours taken to generate reports on a daily basis by building Python scripts to automate tasks and report generations. Sarthak holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and another Bachelor of Technology from Delhi Public School, Dwarka. He is highly skilled in data science, research science, NLP, Javascript, Jenkins, BERT, SVM, XGBoost, software engineering, Python, Keras,