SHARMILA VELAMUR

Chargeback Gurus provides end-to-end consumer transaction dispute management services to merchants across a wide variety of industries.

• Utilized advanced querying, visualization and analytics tools to analyze and process complex data sets from various merchants, payment processors and gateways.
• Worked with stakeholders to develop roadmaps for data products based on time to market, estimated cycles of learning and customization level required by merchant and industry.
• Defined a clear project structure for the data science pipeline to accommodate constant innovation in a development environment while allowing a stable, well-tested model to be deployed in production.
• Created customized models to make critical predictions, automate reasoning and decisions.
• Studied new technologies to support machine learning applications.
• Built a data lake and machine learning infrastructure to customize models easily and reduce cycles of learning.

Micron Technology is a semiconductor manufacturing company, a global leader in innovative memory and storage solutions.

• Managed five Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) projects for various areas of semiconductor manufacturing.
• Identified sensors, engaged vendors, collected requirements from stakeholders, collaborated with subject-matter experts, built multiple data engineering and data modeling pipelines.
• Identified endpoint detection issues using data collected from ultra-fast spectrometers that led to successful root cause analysis and updated recipe parameters.
• Built innovative data ingestion pipelines using Apache NiFi to move and store ~120 GB of streaming data generated every 40 minutes.
• Worked on seamless transition of Data Science products to Snowflake in collaboration with Data Engineers.
• Published paper internally in Data Science Innovation Forum on Arc Detection in tool chambers using LSTM Autoencoders.
• Lead inventor of Smart Dental Device for people with intellectual and physical disabilities (U.S. patent number 11,323,521).
• Passionate advocate for Women Innovate program and served in their leadership team.

Vinsight provides data and platform agnostic crop yield forecasting using remote sensing imagery, field practices, historical data and weather for crops like grapes and almonds.

• Developed multiple models using various learning algorithms for crop-yield prediction.
• Prototyped machine learning applications and quickly determined application viability.
• Presented detailed exploratory analysis including data visualizations of agrometeorological data to the management.
• Developed advanced graphic visualization concepts to map and simplify analysis of heavily-numeric data and reports.
• Conducted sensitivity analysis as precursor to feature engineering.
• Built a highly configurable end-to-end data science pipeline starting from data ingestion to data wrangling, feature engineering, model-selection including cross-validation, and a yield prediction inference pipeline.
• Designed dimensionality reduction techniques which produced better results than traditional methods such as Principle Components Analysis.
• Automated feature engineering process by defining a global feature space and related utilities.

Chargeback Gurus provides end-to-end consumer transaction dispute management services to merchants across a wide variety of industries.

• Directed product development of a suite of chargeback prevention & risk management applications. Managed a team of 5.
• Established software workflow, best practices, build/deploy protocols & SDLC tools for the product engineering team.
• Introduced project management tools and version control to existing legacy projects as well as new ones in the pipeline.
• Oversaw the design and implementation of an automated data loading system involving dozens of third party APIs, databases and web data harvesting.
• Evaluated ongoing development efforts, providing feedback on potential methods of expediting completion and improving final results.
• Provided regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
• Mentored junior software engineers, providing careful guidance of development strategies and education on innovative development techniques.
• Led development on four simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.

Core Digital Media, formerly Experian Interactive Media, is a 20 million dollar internet lead generation company, with verticals operational in the lending, insurance, and education industries.

• Collaborated with product management, analytics, and quality assurance teams to continuously build and optimize a large B2C website with over 6.5 million visitors per month.
• Led large key projects through the entire project lifecycle, from technical requirement documentation to production deployment and post-release analysis.
• Served as a key stakeholder and lead developer in building mobile-optimized web applications for debt and lending forms in 2013, resulting in a 35% increase in traffic conversion.
• Successfully built and maintained the in-house AB website testing platform, increasing testing efficiency and effectiveness for the marketing and consumer experience teams.

• Developed and managed the company website which included a module for consultants to login and update status reports for their clients.

• Lead in-house developer on the HIPAA compliance project.
• Single handedly designed, implemented and deployed the Child Support Payment Tracking Website.
• Administered Weblogic application servers.

• Designed and developed the Collision Repair Services portlet.
• Served as Software Configuration Manager of the team.
• Implemented a Defect Tracking System.

• Excelled in Data Storage & Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Data Visualization coursework.
• Served as Teaching Assistant for the course Machine Learning at Scale.

• Graduated at the top of my class.