Education
Eller College of Management, University of Arizona (December 2022)Master’s in Management Information Systems (MIS)
Relevant coursework: Information System Analysis & Design, Business Communication, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Business Consulting, Business Foundations of IT
Savitribai Phule Pune University (May 2018)
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, Data Structures, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering
Work Experience
Software Developer | SAP, India (July 2018 - June 2021)-
Team Lead | E-Commerce Projects
- Enhanced UX and reduced add-to-cart time by 60% by redesigning data models and adding 6 new features.
- Headed requirements gathering for a finance module and delivered the features in a period of 2 months.
- Served as a liaison between clients, architects, developers and QA team while handling challenges to delivery. Backend Developer | E-Commerce & E-Bidding Projects
- Reduced sale event creation time by 25% and enhanced the UX by redesigning the business process logic.
- Reduced project development time by 20 developer days/project by creating payment gateway extensions.
- Improved system performance by 30% by performing deep dive analysis which led to customer retention.
CrisisAid is a social venture aimed at helping people during natural disasters using an AI powered solution.
- Built an MVP and impacted 10,000+ people by running a pilot with a non-profit organization in India.
- Headed customer engagements and conducted user interviews to define the product features and strategy.
- Gathered customer requirements, created user stories, defined epics, and created the product backlog items.
- Nurtured collaboration between cross-functional teams like development, UX, analytics, and sales.
- Presented impact metrics to SAP’s board of directors and pitched the idea in front investors.
Leadership Experience
Work Plan Manager | Eller Business Consulting Project (January 2022 - Present)-
Project sponsored by Tucson Electric Power - supplier of electricity and power to multiple cities in Arizona.
- Cut IT expenditures by 10% by developing a framework for application rationalization and value analysis.
- Planned and managed the internal team, as well as maintaining client relationships with TEP executives.
- Gathered user requirements from an e-commerce customer and created the conceptual design.
- Designed and developed queries, triggers and stored procedures in SQL and deployed the solution on AWS EC2.
- Analysed the data using neural network and decision tree algorithms for classification.
- Performed web scraping, and data pre-processing on a dataset to classify an NBA player.
- Increased event awareness by 60% by introducing social media channels such as Slack and Facebook.
- Enhanced communications between Career Management services and students by sending weekly newsletters.
Skills
| Management Skills | Consulting, Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement & Negotiations |
| Tools & Databases | AWS S3, AWS EC2, MS Excel, Git, Jira, Figma, Tableau, MySQL, Oracle DB |
| Programming Languages | JAVA, Python, R, C, C++, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Groovy, BeanShell |
Co-Curricular
SAP.iO Accelerator | SAP, Germany (August 2019- December 2019)- Increased traction from 1 to 5 pilot customers.
- Learned skills like storytelling, market analysis, business model and product roadmap development.