Aditya Sharma

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ABOUT ADITYA SHARMA

Lead Data Scientist in Commercial Development function within Global Payments division of Western Union. Responsible for building out data strategy for a data rich organization. Use data science to combine legacy systems, connect external data sources and present statistical analysis to stakeholders. Solve for scalability and repeatability of delivering insights to global teams to drive commercial growth.Bring in thought leadership for applying Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing techniques to payments data.Previously, Lead Data Scientist at Social Market Analytics, Inc, a leading FinTech data provider firm to financial industry ranging from hedge funds and quantitative funds to banks. Managed the team of data scientists and developed trading systems using the proprietary alternative data. Optimized the proprietary algorithms for sentiment analysis and source filtering using ML & NLP techniques. Lead the customer support function and acted as first point of contact for institutional buy-side clients and sell-side data partners.Developed predictive statistical models around different aspects of financial securities such as price forecasting, stock selection strategies, trading volume prediction. Designed and developed new a suite of market leading data products using Twitter firehose API. Ingested and analyzed unstructured data sources such as Social Media, News, blogs. Developed and improved Natural Language Processing algorithms by creating industry specific lexicons for sentiment analysis.Co-developed long short stock indices with Barclays using social media sentiment data.Lead customer support for the firm to ensure easy integration of RESTful API feeds. Worked with the customers to help them extract maximum value for their trading environment.Use R, Python (numpy, pandas, ntlk, scikit-learn, matplotlib), MySQL, Unix extensively for all projects.