Vijay Sarathy 👨‍💻

Chief Data Scientist @ Big Data Protocol

About

Persistent developer specializing in 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. I have experience in 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀, and 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮. ✅ I started out as a semiconductor process engineer for a computer chip manufacturing facility, 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦. That led me to a desire to make Data-driven decisions and automate processes using computer systems. ✅ At 𝗜𝗕𝗠, I was a Data Scientist that drove the work for 3 patents submitted in the NLP space. I lead a 2-person team to create an end-to-end application for 1000+ databases using an IBM Watson Deep Learning model, a JavaScript UI, and python ETL scripts in IBM cloud. ✅ At 𝗕𝗝𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲, I stabilized a recommendation engine that contributed to a revenue increase of $280 million. As a Data Science Engineer, I improved production level code in a peer-reviewed AGILE environment with automated unit and regression tests using JIRA, GitHub, Python / PySpark, and AWS. ✅ I have setup the infrastructure and produced customized datasets for 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹.

Country

City

United States

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Rust (Programming Language), Scala, MLflow, Apache Beam, Python (Programming Language), MLOps, Airflow, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Tfx, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, Apache Spark, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Design of Experiments, Process Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Root Cause Analysis, Machine Learning, Statistics

Experience

Chief Data Scientist

Big Data Protocol

2020-11 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

- Leveraged langchain with gpt-4 and a vector database of e-mails to imitate one’s style (vocabulary, tone, and sentence structure) to generate text based on specified topics [RAG, prompt engineering] - Created cryptocurrency and consumer product datasets for sale by data scraping with Python(twint), GCP - Built Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data aggregation pipeline for scorecard analysis of 80 crypto influencers using 1M tweets

Data Science Engineer

BJ's Wholesale Club

2019-5 - 2020-1 · 9 mos

- Owned 2 production coupon recommender systems [Python, PySpark, SQL(Postgres), AWS (S3, EMR), GitHub, Jenkins ] that led to sales revenue increase of $280 million - Improved 6-step coupon-customer assignment pipeline; created personalized content QC report for the engagement team - Expanded and refined 5-stage pipeline measurement engine (members’ activity), added renewal rate metrics - Achieved software development best practices and expanded 25% unit and 33% regression testing

Advanced Analytics Full Stack Data Scientist

IBM

2017-2 - 2018-7 · 1 yr 6 mos

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Classified 250 personal data labels for IBM’s internal GDPR compliance using Watson NLC classified on textual metadata [Python, JavaScript, cloudant, NoSQL, IBM Cloud, Watson NLC, node-RED] - Led 2 person team to deploy classifier to JavaScript UI on IBM cloud for 1000+ databases, from POC to production - Built and maintained ETL for synchronization of databases

Process Engineer

GlobalFoundries

2012-11 - 2015-3 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Malta, NY

• Excelled at Design of Experiments (DOE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) for various photoresist stacks and scanner settings. • Specialized at ensuring manufacturing “run-paths” for “line-downs” • Innovated SOP’s with automated changes and acted as a team motivator for Shift workers

Education

Stevens Institute of Technology

Business Intelligence & Analytics

- Finished the program in a 1 year duration; also in the top 1 % of performance - Completed and succeeded in 12 courses involving Machine Learning, Big Data, Optimization - Relentless R Research Assistant / TA for 30 students for Design of Experiments, 10+ hours weekly - Finished and succeeded in the top 10% of 2000 teams for a collaborative team using python / AWS/ big data

University at Buffalo

Industrial Engineering

Completed degree in < 8 months in Industrial Engineering with Quality and Engineering Management Emphasis-es. -Completed courses for Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training Sequence

Cornell University

Biological Engineering

Majored in a Technically challenge and diverse Biomedical curriculum and took specialized Humanities classes such as Intermediate Spanish, History in Southeast Asia, and the Middle East