Sandeep Gandam

Experience

1. Senior Data Scientist

   Microsoft

   Feb 2020 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Gathering Requirements: Leads collaborations with appropriate stakeholders across product groups and uses understanding of tradeoffs and project costs to recommend appropriate data requirements.• Data Modeling: Applies in-depth knowledge of the business to design a data model for the project and translates business requirements into design specification documents to model the flow and storage of data across data pipelines.• Data Ingestion, Verification, and Validation: Identifies multiple, complex data sources and builds advanced code to extract raw data from identified upstream sources using query languages, tools, or machine learning algorithms.• Data Transformation & Loading: Uses and contributes to the development of advanced and reusable modification techniques and operations to transform raw data into a form that is compatible with downstream data sources.• Development and Use of Data Tools: Collaborates with others to identify opportunities to optimize data tools used to transform, manage, and access data across teams.• Live Site: Ensures the effectiveness and placement of performance monitoring protocols.• Engineering Excellence: Leads root cause analysis in response to detected problems/anomalies to implement advanced solutions that prevent recurring points of failure.• Data Security & Privacy: Anticipates the need for data governance and works with designated committees, with direct support and partnership with Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs, to ensure that data modeling and data handling procedures are compliant with applicable laws and policies across responsibilities in the pipeline.

Education

• Eastern Illinois University

  Master’s Degree, Computer Technology

  2006 — 2007

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor's degree

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Microsoft Word
• Financial Analysis
• Visual Basic
• Software Development
• Microsoft Office
• Peachtree
• Business Intelligence
• Public Speaking
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Databases
• Business Analysis
• Stored Procedures
• Transact-Sql (T-Sql)
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Performance Tuning
• Recruiting
• T-Sql
• .net
• Etl
• Oracle Sql Developer
• Access
• Sdlc
• Sql Server Integration Services (Ssis)
• Quickbooks
• Database Administration
• Accounting
• Process Improvement
• Xml
• Business Process Improvement
• Ssis
• Crystal Reports
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Customer Service
• Telephone Skills
• Sql
• Cost Accounting