Hi !
I'm Bhanu Kurakula
Seeking 2024 Summer /Fall Internship in Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Business Intelligence
Education
2023 - 2025
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ( UIUC )
Master of Science - Information Management (Data Science and Analytics)
GPA : 4.0 / 4.0
2018 - 2022
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ( Amrita University )
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
GPA : 3.3 / 4.0
Work Experience
Sept 2022 - July 2023
Data Engineer
Enhanced data pipeline reliability and minimized downtime by monitoring and resolving data pipeline issues and metric failures in Snowflake and Grafana; managed 200+ metric dependencies.
Developed a proof of concept for fraudulent data detection in Auto Insurance using machine learning; documented and presented the POC to business leaders and designed a roadmap for ML workflows in the production warehouse.
Optimized data retrieval and processing in Snowflake, resulting in 30% faster analytics and reporting for improved decision-making.
Reduced scorecard delay by 40% by facilitating effective cross-team collaboration and ensuring timely scorecard updates.
Mar 2022 - July 2022
Data Engineer Intern
Designed and implemented an automated, fault-tolerant data pipeline on AWS as a Proof of Concept (POC) for a few datasets with over 10M+ records, which was stored in S3. Used Lambda and Glue to perform transformations. Then stored the data to Redshift.
Demonstrated proficiency in databricks through cluster creation, data reading and parsing, schema comprehension, feature distribution, visualization, and aggregation tasks for various sample datasets with over 1M+ records.
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Data Science and Analytics Intern
Developed a real-time yoga pose detection and correction POC by utilizing Azure, Tensorflow and Mediapipe to accurately detect 10+ yoga poses during live sessions.
Integrated a voice assistant feature to provide real-time guidance to users performing yoga.
Captured user progress through 40+ metrics and effectively managed user data on postgres, used Tableau to create a progress tracker.
Presented the POC during the monthly incubator meet to secure investors interest.
Sept 2020 - Jan 2021
Data Science Intern
Spearheaded three categories of a warehouse project by scrapping over 10K+ images per category using selenium, annotated images using labelimg and trained various CNN models to achieve the best accuracy.
Ensembled and deployed the best performing models to the production.
May 2022 - June 2022
Web Intern
Developed high-quality websites for small businesses and IT firms, meeting and exceeding client requirements while consistently meeting project deadlines.
Maintained proactive client engagement throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring client satisfaction and successful project delivery within specified timelines.
Research Experience
Development of a Decentralized Web App (Dapp) for covid-19 using AI, IEEE-Xplore click here
Insights from Microscopic Images click here
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