HELLO, I'M
Rahulkumar Das
Graduate Student at University of South Florida
Major in Business Analytics and Information Systems
Rahulkumar Das.
Aspiring Data Analyst internship roles with a strong foundation from 3 years of experience as Analyst at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, actively seeking Fall 2024 Co-op opportunities
About
MY BACKGROUND
An agile-minded professional with a demonstrated history in automation testing, poised to excel as a Data Analyst Summer Intern. Leveraging technical expertise and agile methodologies, I aim to foster seamless collaboration and provide valuable insights to drive effective business transformations.As a self-motivated team player with excellent communication, I envision an exciting future in the industry. Browse my site to see all that I have to offer.
Education
WHAT I'VE LEARNED
Experience
WHERE I'VE WORKED
August 2023 - May 2025
University of South Florida, Tampa, USA;
Master's of Science in Business Analytics & Information Systems, Grade 3.89/10
Relevant Coursework: Advanced Database Management, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data Science Programming
Oncampus & Volunteering Experience
Graduate Exam Proctor at Student Accessibility Services, University of South Florida
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Provide support as a graduate proctor for students with disabilities, overseeing exam accommodations to promote equitable education and student success, while facilitating academic opportunities for students needing accommodations due to disabilities
August 2016 - October 2020
University Of Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Bachelor's of Engineering in Information Technology,
Grade: 8.41/10
Relevant Coursework: Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures & Algorithm, Database Management System, Internet of Things, User Interaction Design
July 2020 - July 2023
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), India
Analyst
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Achieved an 80% reduction in time-to-market by creating 700+ automated test scripts with Selenium WebDriver.
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Created a cost-effective, enterprise-wide utility using Microsoft Exchange Webservices to validate ~10,000 daily emails and attachments, saving approximately $70,000 annually.
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Implemented an automated data processing solution to replace manual test data generation for RPA bots, slashing processing time by 95%, and completing tasks in 15 minutes, resulting in a significant annual savings of 3000 man-hours.
June 2019 - August 2019
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assoiation of America
(TIAA), India
Software Intern
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Migrated an internal tool from R to Python for TIAA HR Operations, facilitating ARIMA time series forecasting to predict future ticket volume based on three years of data.
Projects
Hands on Work
August 2023 - September 2023
House Price Prediction (Data Analysis)
Tech Used: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Sckit Learn, Pandas, Matplotlib
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Preprocessed the dataset by scaling the values, applied OneHotEncoder for categorical values and SimpleImputer.
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Performed cross validation using 6 KFold technique and evaluated models such as Linear Regression, Logistic Regression and KNN Model using Pipeline method.
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Increased the accuracy from 53% to 78% by finding correlations between the features and target variable.
May 2020 - July 2020
Career Wise (Web Development)
Tech Used: Angular, MongoDB, Express, Node, JsonWebtokens, Git
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Designed a platform enabling users to engage with others through posting, commenting, sending connection requests, and messaging.
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Implemented a module incorporating Jwt authentication and a token-based reset URL for password reset functionality.
March 2019 - May 2020
Eye Gaze Based Student Readability Analysis (Image Processing, Data Analytics)
Tech Used: OpenCV, PyAutoGUI, PyGaze, Pandas, Matplotlib
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Developed a model utilizing Haar cascades to detect frontal face landmarks and extract pupil movement coordinates from IR webcam footage.
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Engineered a mouse control tool using eye movements, enabling actions like double-clicking via double blinks.
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Achieved a 75% cost efficiency improvement by substituting an expensive eye tracker with a low-cost IR webcam for tracking eye movements.
Skills
WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE
Java
MySQL
Python
Selenium WebDriver
Agile Methodologies
Version Control
Rest Assured
Microsoft Webservices
Apache POI
JIRA
Achievements
WHERE I SHINE
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Awarded with Gold, Silver & The Rising Star Award in Annual Awards of 2021 & 2022 for increasing the automated test
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SAFe 6.0 Agilist and SAFe 6.0 Practitioner Certified.
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Secured a place in top 5% of the Java Programmers in India in 2019 through a national level programming challenge conducted by IIT Kharagpur.
Publications
Eye Gaze Based Student Readability Analysis
A technical paper published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Emerging Power System by Springer Publications. (ISBN: 978-981-16-4103-9).The paper has received over 200+ abstract views.