Aakash Patel Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Be

Remote

Remote

Part of Risk, Finance, Treasury and Liquidity, working on an in-house Machine Learning Tool (Elastic Data Platform) managing £800,000 worth of computing infrastructure, allowing different teams (Quantitative Analysts) across the business to adopt machine learning algorithms that maintain ML Explainability.•Using the Hadoop Ecosystem on Data Science projects across the bank.•Worked on migration details for adopting a hybrid model using AWS.•Completed Leadership training… Show more Part of Risk, Finance, Treasury and Liquidity, working on an in-house Machine Learning Tool (Elastic Data Platform) managing £800,000 worth of computing infrastructure, allowing different teams (Quantitative Analysts) across the business to adopt machine learning algorithms that maintain ML Explainability.•Using the Hadoop Ecosystem on Data Science projects across the bank.•Worked on migration details for adopting a hybrid model using AWS.•Completed Leadership training and managed a team of two interns working on enhancements for EDP.•Created an automated reporting process to send weekly reports to Managing and Executive Directors. [Technologies – Python, Java, Spark, AWS, BlueData, Postman, Selenium, Atlassian (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket)] Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

• Undertook a 14-week training program in software development covering SQL, Unix, HTML, CSS and Java (Core syntax, OOP and SOLID Principles, TDD).• Completed a Data Science and Machine Learning training course covering SLR, MLR, Polynomial Regression, Lasso and Ridge Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees and Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, K-Nearest Neighbours, K-Means Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering, PCA, K-Fold Cross-Validation.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Worked as part of the Global Risk Analytics (GRA) Financial Crime Risk (FCR) team looking to deploy machine learning models to help identify fraudulent activity within the countries HSBC operates in. Worked on the France Correspondent Banking Transaction Monitoring (CBTM) project.• Part of a team that worked on a pilot project looking to deploy machine learning models to help identify fraudulent activity. Initially evaluated in one country and set to be rolled out to all countries HSBC… Show more Worked as part of the Global Risk Analytics (GRA) Financial Crime Risk (FCR) team looking to deploy machine learning models to help identify fraudulent activity within the countries HSBC operates in. Worked on the France Correspondent Banking Transaction Monitoring (CBTM) project.• Part of a team that worked on a pilot project looking to deploy machine learning models to help identify fraudulent activity. Initially evaluated in one country and set to be rolled out to all countries HSBC operates in.•Working with the Hadoop Ecosystem, particularly Hive and Spark (PySpark).• Developed Python scripts to perform exploratory data analysis according to the impact assessment criteria provided.• Mentored members of the team to convert their knowledge from legacy systems used to the current Python stack.• Took findings from scripts and streamlined the output into a format that was digestible for the wider team and stakeholders.• Contributed new ideas to help optimise existing scripts for model methodology (highlighting specific machine learning algorithms), development, and implementation.• Engaged with stakeholders to manage model risk.[Technologies Used: Python (Jupyter Lab) [Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Collections, Sklearn, PyHive, PySpark], Hadoop, Hive(beeline), Spark, Unix, PuTTY, SQL, Git, JIRA.] Show less

Bexhill, England, United Kingdom

Working on a new automation framework (using selenium) that would eliminate the need for regression testing by the company.•Created Page Object Models, linking to a properties page using fluent coding practices. •Developed automated test scripts that were fully data-driven and dynamic. •Implemented extent reporting (with screenshots), created test XML suites, modularised database steps that pass specific information to certain parts of the… Show more Working on a new automation framework (using selenium) that would eliminate the need for regression testing by the company.•Created Page Object Models, linking to a properties page using fluent coding practices. •Developed automated test scripts that were fully data-driven and dynamic. •Implemented extent reporting (with screenshots), created test XML suites, modularised database steps that pass specific information to certain parts of the framework.•Familiarization with Guidewire and Digital Customer journeys.•Experience with testing best practices and working as part of an agile team. Used ALM Octane as an Agile SCRUM workload tool.•Experience using SonarQube, SOAP UI, Jenkins, and SVN.•Took part in hackathons which involved researching into Docker and Appium to see how they could be implemented into the current framework, Redgate (a data masking tool to help companies comply with GDPR), and SQL Data Encryption.[Technologies –Java, Selenium, SQL, TestNG, Cucumber, Jenkins, Maven, SVN, GitHub, Redgate, JavaScript, Octane, SonarQube, Appium, Docker, Grafana] Show less

Msci, Physics

Activities and Societies: Badminton Society Economics and Finance Society Energy Society Indian Society Hindu Society Krishna.

A-Levels

Mathematics Further Mathematics Physics Chemistry