About

Snehkumar Shahani is a highly skilled and experienced Data Science Engineering Lead with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a recipient of the Prime Minister's Ph.D. Fellowship. His research work focuses on Privacy Preserving Data Aggregation in an Untrusted Distributed Environment, and he has published four research papers related to the topic. He has also received awards, travel grants, and online conference grants for his research work. Currently, Snehkumar is working as a Data Science Engineering Lead at Persistent Systems, where he is responsible for the ML Practice in the BFSI domain for a leading international insurance company based in the US. He has extensive experience in data pre-processing using Python libraries, web application design, and development. He is skilled in Software Development Lifecycle right from project planning and designing solutions to deployment and maintenance. He is also an active member of ScrumAlliance® as a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) and Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®). Snehkumar has volunteered for various organizations, including SPPU DoT ACM Student Chapter, Inter-Institutional Inclusive Innovations Center (i4c), and PlayScrum India community. He has also volunteered as a career counselor and motivational counselor for Higher Studies, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Research, Engineering, Project Management, and Scrum. In his past roles, Snehkumar has worked as an Engineering Lead - Data Practice at Persistent Systems and as a Tech Consultant at Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovations Center (i4c). He has also completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the Department of Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, and holds an MTech and PhD (Integrated) from the same university. He also has a B.E. degree from LDRP Institute of Technology and Research, Gujarat University. Snehkumar's tech stack includes Data Scientist, Research Scientist, ML, AWS, Sagemaker, Databricks, Snowflake, AI, Data Engineering, Python, Azure, Web, Software Engineer, Mobile, and infra. With relevant experience of 0.79 years, Snehkumar is a highly skilled and experienced professional who can add value to any organization he works with.