About

Shashank Soni is a skilled Data Analyst and Database Designer with over 4 years of experience in the field of Machine Learning, Data Mining, Cohort Analysis, NLP, Data Visualization, Predictive Modelling, Reporting & ETL. He is currently working as a Senior Data Engineer at Tabtor Math where he has developed payroll automation dashboards for teachers using Looker. He has also designed and developed a search engine using IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank and worked on Funnel Report, Daily Pulse Report, and Cohort Analysis in Looker. Shashank has extensive experience in ETL data from various sources such as Piwik, Braintree, Hubspot, CouchDB, and Zendesk to MySQL using Python. Shashank has previously worked as a Solutions Architect at Cogbooks where he was responsible for Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of users using Python NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, and R. He has also worked on Engagement Analysis of users via network graph, Feature discovery from raw data using PCA to find relevant features and build models, Writing complex queries to fetch relevant data, Integrating R in Web applications using DeployR, and Calculating cosine similarity between documents/users using Latent Semantic Analysis. Shashank has also worked on Data Visualization using D3 (Sankey Diagram, Network Graph, Heatmap), R, and Tableau, and Generating weekly reports using Tableau and Jasper. Shashank has also worked as an Actuarial Analyst at the Center for Analytics, Risk Management & Actuarial Applications (CARMAA) where he was responsible for Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Descriptive Analysis, and Predictive modeling. He has developed customer-specific Actuarial Models and Portfolio modeling of individuals addressing their insurance and financial needs. Shashank has also developed Self-Insured Hospital Owned Plans (SHOP) for hospitals and Self-Insurance plans for organizations. He has also trained new recruits on Pricing (Life Insurance), Reserving (Life Insurance), Profit Testing (Life Insurance), Advanced Excel, and R. Shashank holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, and a degree in Actuarial Science from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He has also completed his schooling from Maharishi Vidya Mandir. Shashank has a diverse Tech Stack, including Data Engineering, designer, Python, MySQL, ETL, NLP, ML, Search