Gaurav Arora Email & Phone Number

I am Data Scientist with 5+ years of experience creating data-driven products and promoting strategic decision making for Fortune 500 organizations across the board. With 2 'dean's excellence' awards and 'a scholar of high distinction award', I have recently graduated with a Master's degree in Management Information Systems focused on Data Science from UT Dallas. With passion for learning and implementing technologies that can revolutionize the future, I have worked on projects varying from marketing to engineering. On Kaggle, I have secured 48th rank in one of the competitions and stood in top 7% in another.In my professional experience, I have worked on descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. I have experience building pipelines and cleaning data, but most of my job entailed a combination of understanding the problem, identifying a solution and executing the implementation.I am familiar with most of the cutting-edge data science tools and also know when it is appropriate to choose neural network over linear regression or vice-versa. Following is my experience with toolsSKILL/TOOL NAME____SKILL LEVEL_____LAST USED__YEARS EXPERIENCEPostgreSQL/mySQL___Intermediate____Current______6Python________________Intermediate____Current______6Spark/MLLIB/ML______Intermediate________Current______2AWS (ec2/emr/RDS).__Beginner________Current______3Hadoop/hive__________Beginner________Current______1Linux/UNIX____________Intermediate____Current______5R______________________ Intermediate____1 year_______ 4Scala__________________ Beginner________Learning_____<1Java___________________ Beginner________1 year________2Octave (Matlab)_______Intermediate____Current______4Visualizing Data_______Intermediate____Current______6ETL____________________.Intermediate____Current______3Machine Learning_____Intermediate____Current______4+Deep Learning________.Beginner________Learning____<1Projects portfolio on Github -> https://github.com/arogau

Listed skills include Analytical Skills, Statistical Data Analysis, Algorithms, Python, and 23 others.