About

Sushant Gandhi is a data science professional with 9 years of diverse experience in machine learning, product data science, natural language processing, statistical analysis, data visualization, and data engineering. He is passionate about solving complex problems and has the ability to break down product goals and problems into smaller actionable data, analysis, and engineering tasks. Sushant is well-versed in designing end-to-end systems in financial, B2B, payments, and real estate domains. He has experience in both structured and unstructured (textual) data and has worked with various algorithms such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, ensemble methods, PCA, NLTK, Gensim, Word2Vec, K Means, neural networks, BERT, transformers, SVM, SVD, KNN, and more. His tech skills include Python, NumPy, Pandas, SkLearn, spaCy, PyTorch, Numba, Tensorflow, LightGBM, Plotly, Rapids, Flask, FastAPI, SQL, performance tuning, Hive(HQL), Impala, Oracle, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, web service development using Flask, FastAPI, GraphQL, PySpark, Java, AWS(Batch, Step Function, RDS, Fargate), Databricks, Tableau, and distributed processing such as EMR, ECS, ECR, and Kafka. Currently, Sushant works as a Senior Data Analyst (Product Data Science) at Compass, where he leads a team of 2 data analysts and is responsible for search and knowledge graph products. He owns the data quality and product metrics like retention, completeness, timeliness, accuracy, product usage, retention, churn, and conversion. He has created new dashboards and pipelines end-to-end using Tableau, JavaScript, PySpark, and Databricks to measure and report various metrics, perform funnel & cohort analysis, set up and measure experiments. He has developed new metrics to monitor search data quality to help quantify quality issues and their impact on product experience. In his past roles, he worked as an NLP Engineer at Fidelity and as a Software Engineer at IBM. He has a Master of Technology in Data Science and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. He also has a Data Analyst Nanodegree from Udacity. Sushant's