Ruchita Jadhav

Syracuse, New York · (315) 515-7699 · rjjadhav@syr.edu

I am a Applied Data Science student, passionate about telling stories backed up by data. My goal is to combine my technical and business skills to reach smarter business decisions. I am currently researching on fake news early detection using machine learning. After securing my master's degree I plan to use my knowledge in data science to generate actionable insights for companies.


Experience

Data Scientist and Strategy Management Intern

NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services

Designed the first actionable performance metrics for $713.9 million annual spending in contract services for 55 agencies in City of New York by statistical methods and collaboration with cross functional teams

Improved the efficiency of contract sign-off by 30 days by utilizing R, Power BI

Technology Stack: R, NYC GBAT, Power BI, Mysql, MS SQL Server, SharePoint, Power Apps

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

Business Analyst/ ETL Developer

Tata Consultancy Services

Led the daily status meetings, fiscal years audits with Business Partners and vendors from offsite as a single of point of contact

Developed the business-critical application of optimizing vehicle performance by processing signal sensor data

Improved DataStage effectiveness by designing optimal database architecture which reduced the load/run time by 5 hours

Consolidated, transformed & analyzed complex data to assess supply & sales of 2.5 million yearly vehicle

Supervised 20+ new associates in team; mentored them in SQL, BI tools and business areas

Escalated issue response rate to 92% by automating failure notifier system of 120 BI applications across India & US

Technology Stack: IBM DataStage 11.3, 11.5 (ETL), DB2, Unix Server – Putty, Excel, Salesforce

Aug 2015 - Jul 2018

Junior Software Developer

Syracuse University

• Working as a Python/ Django full stack developer with iSchool Student Development team

Actively involved in developing the methods for Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) and perform operations on PostgreSQL

Designing RESTful API's, manage relational databases and schema design

Developing backend modules using Python on Django MVC Web Framework

Managing the code versioning with GitLab and deployment to staging and production servers

Mar 2018 - Present

Content and Data Analyst Intern

BucketBolt.com

Engineered comprehensive database management module, which provided an efficient search mechanism to explore various MBA and Engineering colleges across India using SQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and Oracle DBMS.

Collaborated in a team to design a crawler code in Python and PHP scripts to mine University websites to retrieve the data regarding the University Information

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014

Projects

Anomaly detection: Trend Analysis of Stock Prices and Financial News  

Syracuse University

Correlated the anomalies in stock prices to both negative and positive financial news published in market

Developed the API in Python to fetch the news articles and stocks data

Build logistic regressor to predict +ve or -ve sentiment score and linear regressor with seasonality to predict the fluctuation in time series stocks data

Technology Stack: Python, Spark, Jupyter Notebooks, Logistic and Linear regression, Seasonality, Data Visualization

Jan 2019 - May 2019

Health Care: Drug Recommendation System  

Syracuse University

Built an interactive R-shiny application like online doctor which gives cognitive responses to user input

Developed predictive model using random forest and k-Means clustering to classify patient’s condition and recommend drug

Technology Stack: R, R-shiny, rmarkdown, decision trees, kNN, K-means clustering, tree bagging, tokenization, ngram model

Jan 2019 - May 2019

Data Analysis & Decision making: Predictions of installations for Android application  

Syracuse University

Developed analytical modelling to help Business Investors & Android developers in investment decisions

Analyzed the consumer trend by pattern recognition using forecasting model by applying probability distribution theory and Naïve Bayes model and Visualized the results using Pivot tables and presented the business insights

Cross validated the results using confidence interval, hypothesis testing, t-test and p-test

Technology Stack: Stat Tool, Excel, Pivot tables, Tableau, R, Excel Reporting

Aug 2018 - May 2018

Big Data Analytics: Percipient and Cognitive Search Engine  

Syracuse University

Developed cognitive search engine to output the relevant content to user search query in a Web Interface

Performed the text ranking on the data collected via elastic search and Apache nutch & stored in Hadoop clusters and RDDs

Technology Stack: Python, HBase, RDDs, Spark, Elastic search, Apache Nutch, SQL, Page Rank, Google API

Sep 2014 - May 2015

Database Administration & Management  

Syracuse University

Implemented system to automate order processing, cost computation & warehouse management with inventory analysis

Created user interface for business client to manage products, transactions and transportation in MS Access

Conducted requirement analysis & gathered data to setup database of the company using MS SQL Server & MS Visio

Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

Education

Syracuse University

Master of Science in Data Science

GPA: 3.7/4 (STEM)

Relevant Coursework: Analytical Data Mining, Applied Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Financial Analytics, Business Analytics, DBMS
Aug 2018 - May 2020

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering

GPA: 4/4

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, Computer Architecture, Soft Computing

Aug 2011 - May 2015

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Data Driven Decision Making
  • ETL Development & Scrum