Ankit Velani

Motivated Data Scientist with the experience of 3 years in building data driven solutions; with a background of Software development, data profiling, and statistical modeling, willing to learn new technologies, Commendable skills in statistical languages, machine learning. Ability to work in different work environments and provide data-driven solutions.


Contact Information

  • Address : #52, “Sai Mitra”, 2nd Floor, 10th A Cross, 5th Main, Pragati Nagar,Hongasandra, Bangalore- 560068
  • Email       : ankit.velani@gmail.com
  • Skype      : ankit.velani

Professional Experience

  • Data Scientist, Trendwise Software Solution LPP, Bangalore (April,2015 - Present).

  • Software Engineer , Trendwise Software Solution LPP, Bangalore (September,2014 - March,2015).

Education

  • Visvesvaraya Technological University ,Karnataka - India. Master Of Computer Application (MCA) ,October 2011- July 2014

  • National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology - India. O Level ,October 2009- July 2011

  • Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kachchh University ,Gujarat - India. Bachelor Of Computer Application (BCA) ,October 2008- July 2011

Certification

  • Coursera Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms
  • edX , Cloud Computing
  • MongoDB University , MongoDB for DBAs
  • BSNL , IP , Networking and Cyber Security
  • JCHNP ,Jetking Certified hardware and Networking professional

Academic Visited

  • Attended Cyber Security Work Shop at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
  • Attended Embeded-C Workshop at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellor
  • Attended Software Testing Workshop at MS Ramaiah, Bangalore

Media

  1. City Today - 2016 Link
  2. Janatha Vaani - 2017 Link

Public Talk

  1. Data Analytics using R at University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka.
  2. Hands on Cloud Computing Workshop at Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET), Davangere, Karnataka.
  3. Hands on with Amazon Cloud at Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), Tumkuru, Karnataka.
  4. Data Science using R at Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE), MySore, Karnataka.
  5. Data Analytics using R tools at P.E.S. College of Engineering (PES), Mandya, Karnataka.
  6. Data Analytics workshop at R V College Of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore, Karnataka

Projects

  1. e-Com Data Analysis

    In e-Com Data Analysis project, we are analyzing the customer behaviours, more frequent item sales. Analysis reports provide the Customer behaviours like region wise segmentation, day wise & time wise purchase, re-ordering duration and product level reports items which are more frequently sold together by department wise and aisle wise. We used Python libraries called Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Flask.

    Responsibilities:
    - Worked on Data exploration and pre-processing activity.
    - Automated Association Rule learning process.
    - Designed Reports for the historical data.
    - Working closely with UI/UX design team to define workflows and user interfaces
    - Working closely with project managers, QAs, operation team and business team
    - Designed the Endpoint for the Analytical model.
    - Handling customer support and production issues.

  2. e-Learning Data Analysis

    A Company owns a workforce training management platform named “Learning Management Center". The product currently has multiple databases for various customers. The product also holds various training programs deployed by a Company and their customers. The a proposed solution was to Design and Development of data models Staging/Data Lake, Data warehouse, Data Mart for all databases and feed data from data warehouse to reports and API.

    Responsibilities:
    - Participate in business analysis activities to gather reporting requirements.
    - Translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to implement the required reports and dashboards, created from potentially multiple data sources.
    - Developed REST API using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
    - Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports and dashboards for both external and internal users.
    - Working closely with UI/UX design team to define workflows and user interfaces
    - Working closely with project managers, developers, QAs, operation team and business team.
    - Handling customer support and production issues.

  3. "SearchQ" – A Document Retrieval System

    In SearchQ project, we are analyzing and categorizing the customer’s case notes and recommending more relevant solutions to the customer case note. This project will also help out to customer care agent to categories notes; get similar issue & solutions notes to the customers. We used R libraries called data.table, tm, NLP, lsa, SnowballC, topicmodel.

    Responsibilities:
    - Worked on Data exploration and Text pre-processing activity.
    - Implemented Algebraic Model (Vector Space Model) to find similar notes.
    - Implemented Probabilistic Model (LDA) to categorized notes.
    - Prepared Bag-of-words for the model.
    - Designed the Endpoint using PHP.
    - Handling customer support and production issues.

  4. Sentiment Analysis

    In this project, we developed solutions to analyze voice files of the call centre to understand the sentiment of the customer and gather insight into the conversation quality. This project helps to the management teams to provide the better quality of their business support. We Used R libraries like ReadText, tm, e1071, SnowballC, wordcloud.

    Responsibilities:
    -Worked on Data exploration and Text pre-processing activity.
    - Used Bag-of-words to label the conversation.
    - Implemented SVM algorithm to predict the new conversation.
    - Designed the User Interface using Bootstrap.
    - Designed Endpoint using PHP.
    - Worked closely with project managers, developers, QAs, operation team and business team.
    - Handling customer support and production issues.

  5. Data Retrieval using Image

    Worked with the client (Crime Branch), to provide a user interface solution which used the criminal data and provide the relevant information with less hassle.

    Responsibilities:
    Sat with the police officer to know existing complexities in the system to track the criminal record To come up with a solution which is more time and cost efficient

    Contributions & Implementation
    Designed a UI which retrieve the information based on the given image, Using Watson image processing service to retrieve user information from the database
    Developed the PHP application and integrate with IBM Watson services.

    Tools and Environments : Python, Watson, PHP, MySQL

  6. Lead Rank

    In this project, we are analyzing the customer inquiries and created a predictive model to rank the pipeline of the opportunities to optimize the effort of sales and marketing team. We used R libraries like data.tables, e1071, ggplot2.

    Responsibilities:
    - Worked on Data exploration and pre-processing activity.
    - Implemented SVM algorithm to predict the new conversation.
    - Designed Endpoint using PHP.
    - Worked closely with project managers, developers, QAs, operation team and business team.
    - Handling customer support and production issues.

  7. Multi Comment , A Multi Language Feed Back Application

    Worked with Canadian client to build Multi Comment, A Multi Language Feed Back Web Application.

    Responsibilities:
    Understanding the feedback system of the client
    Designing the new feedback system which can enhance customer retention rate

    Contributions:
    Developed User Interface which categorized the customer feedback in positive or negative category
    Developed Simple to complex End point for integration.

    Environment:
    R, PHP,MySQL, Android

Journal Articles

  1. Dr. BG Premashudha, Mr. Ankit and Mr. Srinivas “Pragmatic Study of LEACH and T-LEACH Protocols of Wireless Sensor Network”, Proceedings of the national conference advances in computer applications, 2013 at Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Tumkur-572103 Karnataka, India.

  2. Dr. BG Premashudha, Mr. Ankit , Anvita M Vadiraj and Chaithanya D. “Social media analytics: A survey of analysis conducted on Social Media”, Proceedings of the national conference advances in computer applications, 2015 at Tumkur University, Tumkur-572103

Research Grants

  1. Project Mentor for ICT Incubation Center (2015-16) student project in collaboration with Siddaganga Institute of Technolgy, Tumkur, titled “Tumkur Mobile value added service ”.

  2. Researcher and writer for VGST-SPICE (2013-14) student project in collaboration with Bapujee First Grade College Tumkur, titled “Detection of bread spoilage using sensors”.