About

Gaurav Kantrod is a Senior Data Analyst with a passion for solving business problems through data science. With 3.3 years of experience in software development, he is on a journey to become a Data Scientist. He has led a team of 5 people over 6 months, achieving a 99% on-time delivery rate for software product development. Gaurav is currently working on three exciting projects, including second-hand car price prediction, traffic sign detection for automobiles, and digital marketing fraud analytics in lead conversion. At his current company, Tiger Analytics, Gaurav has deployed XGBoost Machine Learning models to production on AWS and refactored existing code to reduce the occurrence of bugs and easy debugging. He has also reduced API to API latency by 200%, using AWS Sage-maker to achieve it. In his previous role as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Zotalabs, Gaurav worked on three projects simultaneously, mainly focusing on predictive data analysis, including sentiment analysis. He created APIs for data models in Python using Flask and Node JS and groomed junior team members. He also deployed the application on Azure, making the deployment process easier and smoother by writing shell scripts. Gaurav's education history includes a Postgraduate Degree in Data Science, Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and SQL from Aegis School of Business, Data Science & Telecommunication, which he will complete in December 2021. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, a Higher Secondary Education in Electronics from Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, and a Secondary Education in Secondary Education from Athare Patil Public School, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. Gaurav has a diverse tech stack, including AWS, ML, Data Scientist, XGBoost, MySQL, Software Engineer, Spark, SQL, Sentiment Analysis, Python, Research Scientist, MongoDB, NodeJS, NoSQL, DevOps, Flask, Azure, Scala, Javascript, and UI. With 4.28 years of relevant experience, Gaurav is an asset to any team looking for a Senior Data Analyst with a passion for data science and solving business problems.