Akshay Deshneni
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Hindi Full professional proficiency
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Telugu Native or bilingual proficiency
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Flora Shpigelskaya
I had the pleasure or working with Akshay for 2 years. Akshay is great at everything he does. He is eager to learn and never too busy to share his knowledge and help a teammate. He is reliable, hard-working, has excellent communication skills and is always looking for ways to widen and deepen his skills. I highly recommend Akshay for any position pertaining to software development. I am confident that he would be a great asset for any team.
Pramod Rathor
I had the pleasure of working with Akshay for 2 years collaborating on several project. Akshay ability to handle multiple tasks was unlike any I’ve seen before and made a dramatic increase in the productivity level of our work. His understanding of Java and blaze rules engine along with business knowledge are par excellent. As a team member Akshay earns my highest recommendation.
Flora Shpigelskaya
I had the pleasure or working with Akshay for 2 years. Akshay is great at everything he does. He is eager to learn and never too busy to share his knowledge and help a teammate. He is reliable, hard-working, has excellent communication skills and is always looking for ways to widen and deepen his skills. I highly recommend Akshay for any position pertaining to software development. I am confident that he would be a great asset for any team.
Pramod Rathor
I had the pleasure of working with Akshay for 2 years collaborating on several project. Akshay ability to handle multiple tasks was unlike any I’ve seen before and made a dramatic increase in the productivity level of our work. His understanding of Java and blaze rules engine along with business knowledge are par excellent. As a team member Akshay earns my highest recommendation.
Flora Shpigelskaya
I had the pleasure or working with Akshay for 2 years. Akshay is great at everything he does. He is eager to learn and never too busy to share his knowledge and help a teammate. He is reliable, hard-working, has excellent communication skills and is always looking for ways to widen and deepen his skills. I highly recommend Akshay for any position pertaining to software development. I am confident that he would be a great asset for any team.
Pramod Rathor
I had the pleasure of working with Akshay for 2 years collaborating on several project. Akshay ability to handle multiple tasks was unlike any I’ve seen before and made a dramatic increase in the productivity level of our work. His understanding of Java and blaze rules engine along with business knowledge are par excellent. As a team member Akshay earns my highest recommendation.
Flora Shpigelskaya
I had the pleasure or working with Akshay for 2 years. Akshay is great at everything he does. He is eager to learn and never too busy to share his knowledge and help a teammate. He is reliable, hard-working, has excellent communication skills and is always looking for ways to widen and deepen his skills. I highly recommend Akshay for any position pertaining to software development. I am confident that he would be a great asset for any team.
Pramod Rathor
I had the pleasure of working with Akshay for 2 years collaborating on several project. Akshay ability to handle multiple tasks was unlike any I’ve seen before and made a dramatic increase in the productivity level of our work. His understanding of Java and blaze rules engine along with business knowledge are par excellent. As a team member Akshay earns my highest recommendation.
Credentials
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Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
CourseraDec, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
FICO Decision Modeler
FICOAug, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer
OracleAug, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Oct, 2017- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Discover Financial Services
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Data Engineer
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Jun 2023 - Present
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Senior Data Engineer
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Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Environment: AbInitio, Unix, Snowflake, Python, Spark, AWS, Teradata, JSON, Restful APIs, GIT, Jenkins, Kibana, IBM Tivoli Maestro, Control-M, Airflow, Air9, Kafka, OCPResponsibilities: Constantly worked with the Data Science teams to identify new data sources and developed data and machine learning pipelines for ETL and ELT based solutions.Developed end to end data pipelines for batch loads to Snowflake using AbInitio Graphs, S3 and Python based UDL.Worked on developing real time data ingestion and stream analytic solutions leveraging AWS, Python, Spark, and Kafka.Leveraged reusable code modules wherever feasible to reduce the cycle time by 20%.Proactively volunteered to work on Proof-of-Concept initiatives to test and analyze new technologies.Worked on Feast Feature Store development for online features as well as offline features for model training and batch.Active participant in all Data Engineering and Machine Learning Center of Excellence activities within Discover. Show less
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Software Engineer / Implementation Specialist - Data & Analytics (DNA)
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Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
Environment: Java 8, JSON, Restful APIs, Groovy, GIT, Jenkins, FICO Blaze Advisor, FICO DMP, Apache JMeter, Teradata, Snowflake, XML, SAS, Unix, JIRA, H2O, IntelliJ IDE, Eclipse IDEAward Received: Credit Operations and Decision Management (CODM) Excellence Award for Q1 2020 for outstanding performance in handling both BAU as well as Cloud Migration Projects during the COVID19 pandemic.Responsibilities: Was part of the three-member design team responsible for the critical Enterprise Decisioning Platform initiative to migrate card portfolio strategies from legacy FICO Blaze instance to AWS cloud-based FICO DMP.Played an Instrumental role in migrating the Cycle Decisioning Instance which has a volume of 2 million with less than 10 defects out of 135000 test cases.Acted as a technical lead for contractors in the migration of Daily Decisioning Instance which has a volume of 40 million to FICO DMP. Received recognition from Director and VP for the successful delivery of this project.Established as an SME for FICO DMP Cloud migrations in Discover and worked in multiple value streams including Card Portfolio, Collections and Student Loans. Implemented SAS models directly in FICO DMP for the first time which paved the way for the invocation of models in the platform directly.Conducted Proof of Concepts for deploying the H2O Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) POJO machine learning model and the Generalized Linear Model (GLM) MOJO machine learning model in FICO Analytic Cloud. Show less
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Education
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2020 - 2022
Arizona State University
Master's degree, Computer Science (Big Data Systems) -
2016 - 2017
University of South Florida
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering -
2011 - 2015
Manipal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology, Automobile Engineering
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