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Education
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Websites
Certification
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Mounica Lanka

The Colony,Texas

Summary

A process-oriented and solution-driven early career engineer. A Stanford University Innovation fellow with 2+ years of experience in managing, engineering, exploring the raw data, and translating it into actionable insights and an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Spearheaded data initiatives working with diverse cross-functional teams, with 150% growth in operational efficiency and $0.1M cost savings

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data Engineer Internship

Edgesoft Corporation
08.2023 - Current

Edgesoft Corporation, Dallas Aug 2023 – Present
Data Engineer Internship
● Played key role in designing alerting system to automatically notify fulfillment centers via messaging
platforms, of any risks foreseen to proactively take actions before getting into risk
● Orchestrated pipeline to consume live data from various sources like SNS, rest API, and Redshift and created data lake in S3 with a one-minute refresh cadence
● Created Lambda functions to process business logic for each alert to read data from S3 and send
notifications to Slack chat rooms via web-hooks
Indo Nordic Innovation Acceleration Clusters (INIAC), Sweden Dec 2018 – Jul 2019
Web Developer, Public Relations Manager Internship
● As Public Relations Officer, led 4 teams over 6 months to organize hackathon, resulting in 15+ optimal solutions,
$0.1 M funding for best pitches, and connections to Sweden’s state-of-art incubating environment
● Build mock designs and wireframes for landing pages for five new website templates using Adobe Xd
● Established dashboards to present statistical reports reflecting progress of colleges
● Ideated and Created Voting System and messaging system to evaluate and communicate data
● Designed, developed, and executed website for INIAC using React Js, Chart.js, Node.js, SQL, Python

Intern

Edgesoft Corporation, Dallas Aug 2023 – Present
Data Engineer Internship
● Played key role in designing alerting system to automatically notify fulfillment centers via messaging
platforms, of any risks foreseen to proactively take actions before getting into risk
● Orchestrated pipeline to consume live data from various sources like SNS, rest API, and Redshift and created
data lake in S3 with one-minute refresh cadence
● Created Lambda functions to process business logic for each alert to read data from S3 and send
notifications to Slack chat rooms via web-hooks
Indo Nordic Innovation Acceleration Clusters (INIAC), Sweden Dec 2018 – Jul 2019
Web Developer, Public Relations Manager Internship
● As Public Relations Officer, led 4 teams over 6 months to organize hackathon, resulting in 15+ optimal solutions,
$0.1 M funding for best pitches, and connections to Sweden’s state-of-the-art incubating environment
● Build mock designs and wireframes for landing pages for five new website templates using Adobe Xd
● Established dashboards to present statistical reports reflecting progress of colleges
● Ideated and Created a Voting System and messaging system to evaluate and communicate data
● Designed, developed, and executed a website for INIAC using React Js, Chart.js, Node.js, SQL, Python

Volunteer

Cognizant, Forage – Artificial Intelligence Virtual Experience July 2023
● Completed job simulation focused on AI for Cognizant’s Data Science team. Conducted exploratory data
analysis using Python and Google Co-lab for one of Cognizant’s technology-led clients, Gala Groceries
● Prepared Python module that contains code to train model and output performance metrics for machine learning engineering team
● Communicated findings and analysis in the form of PowerPoint slide to present results back to business
Lyft, Forage – Back-End Engineering Virtual Experience June 2023
● Completed Back-End Engineering job simulation, taking over development of unfinished project for Lyft Rentals team. Drafted UML class diagram representing new reorganized architecture
● Refactored messy codebase inherited from another team to reflect my new design accurately
● Implemented unit tests and added new functionality using test-driven development
Stanford University, d.school – University Innovation Fellow Sep 2019 – Present
● Inducted as a University Innovation Fellow of Hasso Plattner Institute of Design(d.school) for Fall 2019 Cohort
● Organized UIF-India's first-ever Regional Meet-up and conducted crash course workshops on Design Thinking for
college students. Currently serving as a UI Guide, providing mentorship and support to upcoming UIfellows
Make A Difference, India – Academic Support Volunteer May 2019 – May 2021
● Served as an academic mentor and tutor for children, providing them with support and guidance to help them
reach their full potential associated with a top-ranked national NGO
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell, VVIT, India – President Sep 2018 – May 2021
● Spearheaded IEDC's strategic plan to foster an innovation and entrepreneurship culture on campus,
spearheading projects like a 100+ participant hackathon and a funded mentoring program

Web Developer, Public Relations Manager Internship

Indo Nordic Innovation Acceleration Clusters (INIAC)
12.2018 - 07.2019

Indo Nordic Innovation Acceleration Clusters (INIAC), Sweden Dec 2018 – Jul 2019

Web Developer, Public Relations Manager Internship
● As Public Relations Officer, led 4 teams over 6 months to organize hackathon, resulting in 15+ optimal solutions,
$0.1 M funding for best pitches, and connections to Sweden’s state-of-the-art incubating environment
● Build mock designs and wireframes for landing pages for five new website templates using Adobe Xd
● Established dashboards to present statistical reports reflecting progress of colleges
● Ideated and Created Voting System and messaging system to evaluate and communicate data
● Designed, developed, and executed website for INIAC using React Js, Chart.js, Node.js, SQL, Python

Education

Masters of Science in Business Analytics -

University of Texas At Dallas
Dallas, TX
05.2023

Graduate in Applied Machine Learning -

University of Texas At Dallas
Dallas, TX
05.2023

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Andhra Pradesh
07.2021

Skills

  • GitHub
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Ui Path, ACCELQ, Appian
  • Python, SQL, R, Java
  • HTML, CSS
  • JavaScript, Nodejs, React Native
  • MySQL, MongoDB
  • Hadoop
  • Hive, Spark, Pig, Kafka

Websites

Certification

  • Machine Learning Specialization, Google, Coursera, 6CT6ZRC59UQE
  • Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate, Google, Coursera, 9ZJQ5MXX8L6T
  • Architecting with Google Compute Engine, Google, Coursera, JHSJYLLSU43W
  • Web Design for Everybody Specialization, University of Michigan, Coursera, 5C9JYBTVPFVX
  • Udacity certified Front-end Web developer Nanodegree, Udacity, 6AS5EKP
  • Appian Certified Associate Developer Certification, Appian Corporation

Leadership Activities Volunteering

  • Cognizant, Forage - Artificial Intelligence Virtual Experience, 07/2023, Completed a job simulation focused on AI for Cognizant's Data Science team. Conducted exploratory data analysis using Python and Google Colab for one of Cognizant's technology-led clients, Gala Groceries, Prepared a Python module that contains code to train a model and output the performance metrics for the machine learning engineering team, Communicated findings and analysis in the form of a PowerPoint slide to present the results back to the business
  • Lyft, Forage - Back-End Engineering Virtual Experience, 06/2023, Completed the Back-End Engineering job simulation, taking over the development of an unfinished project for the Lyft Rentals team. Drafted a UML class diagram representing a new reorganized architecture, Refactored a messy codebase inherited from another team to reflect my new design accurately, Implemented unit tests and added new functionality using test-driven development
  • Stanford University, d.school - University Innovation Fellow, 09/2019, Present, Inducted as a University Innovation Fellow of Hasso Plattner Institute of Design(d.school) for Fall 2019 Cohort, Organized UIF-India's first-ever Regional Meet-up and conducted crash course workshops on Design Thinking for college students. Currently serving as a UI Guide, providing mentorship and support to upcoming UIfellows
  • Make A Difference, India - Academic Support Volunteer, 05/2019, 05/2021, Served as an academic mentor and tutor for children, providing them with support and guidance to help them reach their full potential associated with a top-ranked national NGO
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell, VVIT, India - President, 09/2018, 05/2021, Spearheaded IEDC's strategic plan to foster an innovation and entrepreneurship culture on campus, spearheading projects like a 100+ participant hackathon and a funded mentoring program

Projects

Analyzing Medicare Data for Multiple Chronic Conditions, Python, Machine Learning, Github, 01/2023, 05/2023, Analyzed the Multiple Chronic Conditions dataset from the Centers for Medicare and Medical Services to understand the relationships between beneficiary demographics, chronic conditions, healthcare utilization, costs, Utilized supervised models (Ordinary Least squares, Random Forest Regression, Support Vector Regression, and Decision Tree Regression) for predicting Total Medicare Payments, Prevalence, and Hospital Readmission rates, Found demographics, age, and multiple chronic conditions for predicting target variables. Random Forest model demonstrated superior accuracy and performance compared to other models Employee Attrition management, R Programming, Predictive Analytics, Github, 09/2022, 11/2022, Developed a statistical model for prediction using logistic regression to identify employees at risk of leaving the company from the fictional dataset crafted by IBM Data Scientists, Achieved an accuracy of 87% and created visualizations to convey the outcomes to stakeholders. The model was used to identify and retain high-performing employees who were at risk of leaving the company Net Promoter Score Analysis, Python, R, Tableau, MySQL, 09/2021, 12/2021, Analyzed sales data of a well-known SAAS company with nearly 50,000+ transactions over two years, Created a custom dashboard to display core metrics and their impact on the NPS scores, Trained and deployed a Random Forest model with 83% accuracy to predict NPS score for a given transaction and performed Association Rule Mining Analysis to investigate key factors that determine promoters Campus Energy Monitoring System, React.js, Node.js, MySQL, Python, PHP, Github, 07/2019, 08/2020, Implemented an end-to-end ETL pipeline to track energy consumption, Analyzed large volumes of data, extracting insights and processing datasets, improving the performance of applications by 20 % using SQL Scripts with optimization tuning and writing complex stored procedures, Developed an Energy Analytics website that helps our institute continuously monitor the energy needs, effectively reducing energy wastage by 30%

Timeline

Data Engineer Internship

Edgesoft Corporation
08.2023 - Current

Web Developer, Public Relations Manager Internship

Indo Nordic Innovation Acceleration Clusters (INIAC)
12.2018 - 07.2019

Intern

Volunteer

Masters of Science in Business Analytics -

University of Texas At Dallas

Graduate in Applied Machine Learning -

University of Texas At Dallas

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Mounica Lanka