About

Tushar Samantaray is a graduate data science student at Indiana University Bloomington, with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. He has 3 years of work experience as a full-stack software developer in .Net technology. Tushar is currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. Tushar has a diverse programming and tools background, with experience in Python, R, SQL, PL/SQL, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Linux, GitHub, Microsoft Office, TortoiseSVN, Postman, Anaconda, Tableau, QGIS, REST, and SOAP web services. He is also familiar with libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, Jupyter, and Spark. Tushar has worked as a Research Assistant - Data Analyst at O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His responsibilities included implementing a pipeline to scrape energy disconnection data from multiple gas and electric utility organizations across the United States to create an interactive dashboard application using Tableau to display past energy disconnection statistics and regulations. He also wrote scripts for data scraping, extraction, and cleaning. Additionally, he used QGIS to create shapefiles for the utilities' operational territories, then wrote a script to combine disconnection data with shapefiles in geojson files. Tushar has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for CSCI-B 561 Advanced Database Concepts course at Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Tushar's education history includes a Master's degree in Data Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from C.V. Raman College of Engineering. Tushar's relevant experience includes 3.70 years of work experience as a Software Engineer, Data Scientist, and Research Scientist.