resume

Background

Full Name Varun Kausika
Languages English, Tamil

Education

  • 2022 - 2023
    Master of Science, Business Analytics [GPA - 3.82/4.0]
    The University of Texas at Austin
    • Relevant Coursework - Predictive Modeling, Optimization, Information Management
  • 2018 - 2022
    Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Minor in Computer Applications [GPA - 8.7/10.0]
    National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
    • Relevant Coursework - Calculus, Statistics, Linear Algebra, Database Management Systems

Experience

  • Jan 2023 - Present
    Data Science Capstone Project
    Dell Technologies
    • Capacity Planning - Working as a part of the Customer Financial Services team to dynamically optimize levers such as team meeting hours, outages and overtime hours to match 26 week forecasted order volumes against agents and resources required to improve operational efficiency and semiannual staffing.
  • June 2021 - Oct 2021
    Process Automation Intern
    FedEx
    • Web scraping automation - Developed an algorithm to scrape dropdown bars, tables, and text boxes of any given website. Generated a spreadsheet view of data using Selenium and Pandas. Tested on over 50 public domains.
    • Query generation - Built a web service for data pooling and visualization. The app aggregated first and second party data from disparate sources; utilities to recommend, execute and display results of PL/SQL queries were provided.
  • Nov 2019 - May 2020
    Research Intern
    Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
    • Developed a novel algorithm called piMF to decompose concentration time series data of any chemical reaction into underlying coefficient and extent matrices using an alternating least squares approach (pending publication).