Sandeepteja Sundara

About Sandeepteja Sundara

Data Scientist with 4+ years of experience designing and deploying ML solutions that drive measurable business impact across finance, automotive, and SaaS sectors. WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE: • Built production-ready ML models achieving 94.3% prediction accuracy (12.3% improvement from baseline) • Engineered scalable data pipelines processing 10M+ records, reducing training time by 30% • Deployed containerized ML solutions serving millions of users through Docker/Kubernetes • Automated workflows that cut manual reporting time by 40% using AWS and Python TECHNICAL EXPERTISE: Programming Languages: Python, SQL Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, BigQuery Statistical Analysis: Hypothesis Testing, A/B Testing, Regression Analysis, Causal Inference Machine Learning & Data Science: Regression, Classification, Clustering, Ensemble Models (Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM), Time Series (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM), Feature Engineering, Model Evaluation, EDA, NLP, Model Validation Deep Learning: CNN, RNN, Transformers, LSTMs, GANs Frameworks & Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter Notebooks Generative AI & LLMs: LLMs, RAG Pipelines, LangChain, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering Cloud Platforms: AWS (S3, EC2, SageMaker, RDS, Lambda, Redshift) MLOps & DevOps Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, DVC, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, FastAPI, Git/GitHub, CI/CD Currently completing MS in Computer Science (Dec 2025) at Northern Illinois University (GPA: 3.72/4.0) RECENT ACHIEVEMENT: Developed an intelligent fraud detection system with 94.9% detection rate and 0.6% false alarm rate, deployed on Railway with Flask REST API and interactive dashboards. INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: Finance • Automotive • SaaS • Consulting I\'m passionate about translating complex data patterns into actionable business recommendations and building ML solutions that scale. Currently exploring opportunities in Data Science, ML Engineering, and AI roles. Let\'s connect: s••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Graduate Teaching Assistant

   Northern Illinois University

   Aug 2025 — Present · DeKalb, IL, US

   Have been mentoring 100+ students in Python programming and applied machine learning, including model development, feature engineering, and performance evaluation, strengthening coding skills, conducting code reviews and practical ML understanding.• Have been contributing to the design and evaluation of hands-on ML assignments and projects, ensuring precise assessment of model accuracy, code quality, and reproducibility.• Have been facilitating academic integrity and student learning by debugging complex code, providing actionable feedback, and collaborating with the professor to enhance course materials and project workflows.

Education

• Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Bangalore

  SSC

  2014

• Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai

  Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• Sri Chaitanya College of Education

  HSC, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

  2014 — 2016

• Northern Illinois University

  Master's degree, Computer Science