Kunal Baviskar
Pune
Summary
Proactive technology lead with over 5 years of IT experience in a large, fast-paced business environment. Thorough knowledge of data science and analysis, SQL Server, data visualization, and automation implementation. Highly efficient, communicative, and collaborative with a proven history of improving business operations to support corporate growth and revenue.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - Current
- Leading a team of 16 associates
- Created and automated data visualizations using Power BI to present insights and tell compelling stories.
- Delivered comprehensive reports highlighting key trends, patterns, anomalies, presenting findings to senior management for informed decision-making purposes.
- Analyzed large amounts of data to identify trends and find patterns, signals and hidden stories within data.
- Leveraged text, charts and graphs to communicate findings in understandable format.
- Partnered with IT teams to ensure seamless integration between databases and analytical tools, maximizing system efficiency across departments.
SQL Server Database Administrator
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Administered, supported, and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers.
- Maintained complex T-SQL queries, DB objects, stored procedures in multi-database environment
- Documented analysis results and provided performance improvement feedback.
- Produced high-standard database solutions to meet stability, reliability and performance metrics.
- Developed custom scripts and jobs for automating routine tasks, increasing productivity and reducing manual intervention.
- Worked on multiple database upgrades and migrations from legacy version to N-1, Data Centre refresh, ensuring minimal impact on end users and maintaining data consistency.
- Ensured data integrity and security through the implementation of comprehensive backup and recovery plans for High availability and Disaster recovery setup.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop efficient database solutions, resulting in streamlined business processes.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2019 - 01.2022
- 24*7 Infrastructure Monitoring
- Reduced system downtime by proactively monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing performance issues.
- ServiceNow, Control-M monitoring and planning
- Prepare and share daily reports
- Implemented workflows in SNOW as part of CII
- Prepare, maintain and publish KB articles, Runbooks, SOPs.
- Provided ongoing support for users experiencing issues or requiring assistance with application functionality.
- Identified opportunities for process improvement within team, implementing changes that led to increased efficiency and collaboration among members.
Education
M.Tech - Data Science & Engg.
BITS Pilani
Rajasthan10.2023
B.E - E&TC
University of Pune
05.2019
Skills
- Python Programming
- Machine Learning
- SQL Databases
- Statistical Analysis
- Scikit-Learn
- Natural Language Processing
- Neural Networks
- Database Management
- Sentiment Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Feature Engineering
- Data Mining
- Anomaly Detection
- Google Colab, Jupyter Notebook, PowerBI expertise
- Analytical Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Excellent Communication
- Anomaly Detection
- Google Colab, Jupyter Notebook, PowerBI expertise
- Analytical Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Excellent Communication
Projects
- Predictive Analysis for Financial Investments based on Big Five Personality Traits : Analyze behavioral aspects of humans through the identification of big 5 personality traits and build a machine learning based model to recommend investment options that best suits their personality.
- Weather forecasting using MLlib-PySpark on DataBricks : Analyze and compare real historical weather with weather folklore. Built 3 ML model to predict the humidity and visualize results.
- Generate Image captions using CNN and LSTM : Read images and generated captions for the same using NLP techniques and computer vision. CNN encoder used to extract features, pre-trained on ImageNet dataset (VGG16/DenseNet201) and LSTM decoder for language modelling.
- Sentiment analysis of Amazon fine food reviews using NLP : Analyze and predict the sentiment of food reviews given by various users, using natural language processing techniques like stemming, lemmatization, TF-IDF, BoW, parsing.
- Binary Classification Using PyTorch : Using pytorch dataloader and CUDA, perform exploratory data analysis and build FCNN model with different activation functions, optimizers, LR for best performance and visualize various learning curves.
Courses & Certifications
- Microsoft Azure: 2x Certified
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: 2x Certified
- Certification in Machine Learning and Python
- Introduction to Cloud Computing on AWS
- Gen AI fundamentals
- GCP Big data and ML
- CD using spinnaker on AWS and Kubernetes
- Project coordinator
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Marathi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Accomplishments
- Certificate for Excellent Performer as beginner - Portfolio lead, CTS
- Star Performer 2024 - CIO (Client)
Hobbies
- Trekking
- Cycling
- Table Tennis
- Badminton
- Football
Timeline
Senior Data Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - Current
SQL Server Database Administrator
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2022 - 01.2024
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2019 - 01.2022
M.Tech - Data Science & Engg.
BITS Pilani
B.E - E&TC
University of Pune
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