I'm Praveen Samudrala.

I'm a experienced Data Scientist,and a zealous Machine Learning Engineer.
Making machines learn the hidden patterns in this world one step at a time. Let's start scrolling and learn more about me.

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About Me

I'm a Masters in Applied Artificial Intelligence graduate from University Of Ottawa, and looking for FTE as a Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer roles. Before my Master's, I worked as a Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Techology Solutions for 3.5 years. During my time there, I worked as a Data Scientist and Python Developer.

I have a keen interest in bringing value from the data, and utilize Machine Learning techniques for data-driven recommendations and decisions.

As a Data Scientist professional with almost 2 years of industry expertise, I've worked on Data Wrangling, Feature Extraction, Machine Learning Model building, and optimization among others. With tremendous enthusiasm for Machine Learning, I aspire to be a part of an organization where I can fully leverage my skills and experience to make a significant contribution to the betterment of the employer and enjoy my learning journey toward being an AI Solutions Architect.

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Career

Programmer Analyst - Data Scientist

Cognizant Nov. 2019 - Aug. 2021

  • Implemented target Customer identification solution via Clustering analysis, saving 40% monetary resources and improved returning customers ratio by 30%.
  • Conducted EDA, statistical analysis, built, tuned, effective Machine Learning models and integrated into web applications. This led to a 30% improvement in accuracy and a 10% reduction in processing time.
  • Developed ML, NLP pipelines that Pre-Processed data, performed Feature Engineering, Feature Selection, Model Selection, and optimized with hyperparameter tuning using Scikit-Learn, NLTK, spaCy, and Tensorflow libraries.
  • Built and managed AWS CodeDeploy CI/CD pipelines to automate code integration, build and deployment processes following DevOps practices. This led to a 10% reduction in deployment time and a 10% reduction in error rate.

Programmer Analyst - Python Developer

Cognizant November 2020 - January 2021

  • Developed, integrated, and maintained Django webpages/views utilizing HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and PostgreSQL for efficient data management.
  • Leveraged AWS infrastructure to optimize webpage performance, including configuring and managing EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS databases, EBS, ELB, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudWatch and IAM.
  • Built and managed CI/CD pipelines for continuous code integration and deployment in Dev and Test instances.

Education

University of Ottawa

M.Eng ECE Concentration in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2022

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering
June 2013 - May 2017

A Couple Of My Projects

Contact Me

"This information is not comprehensive enough to reflect my qualifications, but I would be happy to discuss more with you in person. Feel free to reach me out."

Email

samudralapraveen6@gmail.com

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