Data Scientist Data Analyst Data Engineer ML Engineer

Hi, I'm Hrushikesh

I transform data into decisions using statistical learning, ML, and clear visual storytelling. Pursued MS in Data Science at George Washington University.

Bellevue, WA
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Certificates

Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate certificate
Azure Data Scientist Associate · Microsoft (Aug 2025)
AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate certificate
Data Engineer – Associate · AWS (Jul 2025)
OCI Data Science Professional certificate
OCI Data Science Professional (Jul 2025)
OCI Generative AI Professional certificate
OCI Generative AI Professional (Jul 2025)
Salesforce Certified AI Specialist certificate
Certified AI Specialist · Salesforce (Mar 2025)
Red Hat OpenShift Development I certificate
OpenShift Development I · Red Hat (Dec 2024)
Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes certificate
OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (Dec 2024)
DataCamp Introduction to R certificate
Introduction to R · DataCamp (Sep 2023)
NPTEL Developing Soft Skills and Personality certificate
Soft Skills & Personality · NPTEL (Sep 2022)

About Me

I turn messy data into clean insights, and occasionally into existential crises for spreadsheets.

I'm a Data Scientist and Analyst who loves finding stories in numbers, building predictive models, and automating the boring stuff so teams can focus on strategy.

I have a Master's in Data Science from George Washington University (4.0 GPA) and a Computer Science and AI background from VIT, so I build models that not only predict outcomes but also make sense to humans.

When I'm not wrangling SQL joins or fine-tuning a Power BI dashboard, you'll find me watching cricket highlights or experimenting with recipes that have a lower success rate than my machine learning models.

4.0
GPA at GWU
3+
Years Experience

Experience

Data Analyst

Gesa Credit Union

September 2024- September 2025
Financial Performance & Reporting | Banking Analytics Richland, WA

Led the modernization of Gesa's performance reporting, unifying financial and marketing insights for faster, higher-confidence decisions across leadership.

Business Problem

Gesa's finance and marketing teams lacked a shared, reliable view of loan performance, member growth, and operational efficiency because of manual, Excel-based reporting that delayed insights and introduced data inconsistencies.

Approach & Key Actions

  • Built interactive Power BI dashboards tracking loan performance, member growth, and branch KPIs, improving transparency for leadership.
  • Designed SQL data models and automated pipelines consolidating member, deposit, and loan data, cutting manual reporting effort by 35%.
  • Partnered with marketing and product teams to measure campaign effectiveness, identifying segments that lifted offer conversion by 12%.
  • Optimized DAX logic and Power Query transformations, standardizing data definitions and boosting dashboard reliability by 20%.
  • Delivered quarterly financial and risk reports, automating validation and reconciliation workflows that achieved 100% compliance with reporting standards.

Impact & Results

  • Enhanced KPI visibility across finance and branch operations.
  • Reduced report preparation and reconciliation time by over 35%.
  • Increased dashboard adoption and trust across business units.
Power BI SQL DAX Power Query Python

Data Scientist Intern

ZettaMine Labs

May 2024-August 2024
Customer Churn Intelligence | BFSI

Developed a machine learning solution to identify and predict customer churn, enabling proactive retention campaigns and reducing attrition risk.

Business Problem

The client was experiencing high churn that reduced revenue and raised acquisition costs, without a reliable way to surface at-risk customers early.

Approach & Key Actions

  • Analyzed over 1 million banking transactions and behavioral signals to reveal churn triggers.
  • Engineered predictive features, highlighting inactivity periods and late payments as strongest indicators.
  • Benchmarked Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost models, selecting XGBoost (AUC 0.89).
  • Published Tableau dashboards to deliver churn scores across 50,000+ accounts.
  • Deployed a real-time scoring pipeline with AWS SageMaker orchestrated in Airflow.

Impact & Results

  • Reduced overall churn risk by ~15%.
  • Improved retention campaign targeting efficiency by ~20%.
  • Lowered retention spend by ~12%.
Python SQL XGBoost Tableau AWS SageMaker Airflow

Data Analyst

Bizom

January 2020- August 2023
Retailer Engagement & Notifications | FMCG

Engineered analytics to monitor and optimize a high-volume notification platform for FMCG clients, restoring reliability and boosting retailer engagement.

Business Problem

Distributors and retailers were missing critical alerts because SMS and app notifications were unreliable, creating poor user experiences and risking churn.

Approach & Key Actions

  • Aggregated 2M+ daily SMS and in-app events into a unified performance pipeline.
  • Performed root-cause analysis on delivery logs to isolate operational bottlenecks.
  • Automated NLP-based alert categorization to lift reporting accuracy by 28%.
  • Ran A/B tests on send times and copy to maximize interaction.
  • Built Power BI dashboards for real-time engagement visibility.

Impact & Results

  • Increased retailer engagement with notifications by ~19%.
  • Reduced failed notifications by ~23%.
  • Improved reliability between FMCG distributors and their retail network.
Python SQL Power BI Tableau A/B Testing NLP

Featured Projects

Temperature Forecasting with Time Series & ML

GWU · Spring 2025

Compared ARIMA/SARIMA, Random Forest, XGBoost, and LSTM for robust forecasting. Engineered lags, rolling stats, seasonality signals; used STL for decomposition. City‑wise forecasts for 50 states with interactive dashboards.

Python Time Series LSTM XGBoost Plotly

Energy Consumption Forecasting on AWS

GWU · Fall 2024

Built ML models (Random Forest, AutoML) to forecast energy usage from 1973–2024. Achieved R² of 0.95 and RMSE 0.209; temperature and month were key drivers. Deployed insights via AWS QuickSight for decision support.

AWS AutoML QuickSight Machine Learning

Global Energy Trends and Impact

GWU · Spring 2024

Unified datasets on electricity use, access, energy mix, and CO2 emissions. Built a clear, responsive narrative using DataWrapper and custom HTML. Highlighted inequality and fossil fuel reliance with accessible visuals.

DataWrapper HTML Data Visualization Storytelling

EV Adoption Analysis Across U.S. Regions

GWU · Fall 2023

Explored regional EV adoption patterns with 12k+ records and SMART questions. Validated insights via ANOVA, Chi‑square, T‑tests; built OLS/Logistic models (81% accuracy). Visualized trends to surface adoption hotspots.

Pandas Seaborn Statistical Analysis Modeling

Facial Feature Detection Using CNN

VIT · 2022

Real‑time age, gender, emotion, and blink detection using CNN. Used MediaPipe (468 landmarks) + OpenCV for precise tracking. Achieved 90%+ accuracy with applications in HCI and biometrics.

CNN OpenCV MediaPipe Deep Learning

Skills & Technologies

💻 Programming Languages

Python Java SQL R HTML/CSS MATLAB

🤖 Machine Learning & AI

scikit-learn Keras PyTorch TensorFlow OpenCV YOLO AutoML

📊 Data Analysis & Visualization

Pandas NumPy Seaborn Matplotlib Plotly D3.js Tableau Power BI

☁️ Cloud & Big Data

AWS S3 AWS Lambda SageMaker QuickSight Azure GCP Kubernetes

🗄️ Databases & Tools

MongoDB Neo4j Git GitHub Jupyter VS Code

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