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Shahbaz Khan

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I grew up in the family of TATAs (4 Generations working for TATAs) . I have been brought up with machines from a very tender age. My Grandfather and Dad used to do all kind of home appliances repair at home. In my childhood days I used to spend vacations sometimes doing door to door selling of Ice Candy Sticks with one of my Uncle and sometimes working at a Restaurant owned by another Uncle. In a nutshell, TATA Culture imbibed the importance of creating sustainable value, and the principle of Leadership with Trust. Problem solving and Frugal Innovation was a necessity and always part of my day to day life at home. Vacations were a ground to test operations and execution. Having a Vision Solving Problems in a Frugal Way Excellent Execution, is what life had made me do so far. That is what my life is and that is what I am doing. At Noveracion Global we are Redefining Problem Solving using Jugaad (Frugal Innovation) by Leveraging Cutting Edge Technology. Building value driven solutions on cross roads of cutting edge technology that have the potential to create an impact, is what differentiates us. Our USP is our Innovation Assessment Framework which is a product as a service offering. With this we help enterprises to fail fast and fail early with their Innovation Initiatives. Look at https://www.noveracionglobal.com to get an idea of our products and services. We are exploring areas of inefficiencies in Businesses across different sectors and different verticals. If you have any interesting problem let's connect and discuss. Our areas of expertise are ML, Deep Learning (on GPUs) , Drone based Image Acquisition, Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, IoT System Integration and Voice Application Development using Alexa. Leaders create more leaders, with this vision in mind, I am working on Building a student driven Not for Profit Platform that will connect college student with relevant mentors from the industry. This is in my personal capacity and in addition to my full-time commitment at Noveracion Global. I am looking to build a core team who can help with the execution of this (preferably college students and recent grads) .
Noveracion Global
Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
Pune, Maharashtra, India

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
    Data Scientist
  • Fields
  • Work experience
    6-10 years (6-10 years relevant)
  • Management
  • Skills
    Full Stack Development
    Machine Learning
    AWS
    Python
    UI
    UI/UXDesign
    Big Data
    kafka
    Apache
    Scoop
    Hive
    Elastic Search
    Tableau
    Kibana
    Quick Sight
    Power BI
    tensorflow
    Deep learning with TensorFlow
    GAN
    Reinforcement Learning
    KITE Connect
    Algorithmic Trading
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Data Scientist
  • Desired work locations
    California, USA
  • Freelance
    Full-time freelancer

Work Experience

Co-Founder

Mar 2020 - Present
Pune, Maharashtra, India

Co-Founder and Chief Design Architect

Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
8 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India As an IoT/ML System Integrator we were bombarded with the same question from decision makers at every organization. What is the ROI. - That made us deep dive and find out the root cause to find out why companies are not investing in IoT based solutions. That is when we realized they are looking for products/solutions which would yield them returns or optimize their processes which would result in cost saving or improve the quality of the product or the time to market of their product or solution offering. We then realized and saw a much huge opportunity than just being a system integrator and solutions provider. That is how this approach which was earlier a rudimentary process was crafted into an assessment framework that is an iterative process to narrow down the problem to such an extent that the answer becomes evident, backed by quantitative and qualitative data analysis, combined with rapid prototyping techniques and quick feasibility assessment to fail much faster and more over discover other potential problems and bottlenecks in this process of exploratory analysis. My role was to design the Innovation Assessment Framework and then pitch it to the potential prospects, iterate the framework as per the feedback if the need be, and continue this. This was the first pivot to move from a solutions provider to Innovation Consulting firm. I was involved in the creative design of our first marketing video, in addition to this other responsibilities involved corporate and hiring strategy, sales and business development, finances and cash flow management. Since this was in the initial phase and a new initiative we did not have any active paying clients although potential prospects were optimistic . We were exploring other verticals like : 1. Full Stack Web Development using AWS 2. Python Development 3. Salesforce Solution Development using tools like Datorama 4. RPA Automation tools like Automation Anywhere and UiPath 5. Talent advisory and recruitment

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
2 mos
Pune Area, India After leaving my full time job, I decided to follow my passion and to embark on a journey of value creation . I had this deep dive passion for creativity, innovation and out of the box thinking for solving toughest problems using technology. Creating employment and sustainable value creation for all stake holders was also one of the core priorities. With this vision mind I started Noveracion Global In the first month here is what I was occupied with. - Formulating the vision of the company, creating a foundation and base for the Enterprise of the Future. - Administrative responsibilities like coordinating with CA and CS for registering a Private Limited Company, GST Number and ensuring all the compliance and due diligence are in place. - Development of all marketing collateral for the company like logo, company website, hosting etc. We hired a freelancer for logo design, rest everything was in house so this took our lot of time, but this create a strong foundation for future. - Sales and Business Development, Relationship building, online and offline marketing of the services being offered by the company. - Hiring and Team building initiatives, mentoring the team members on the first few projects. - Couple of projects that I mentored the team were on the below topics : 1. Alexa to be used as Virtual Assistant in Luxury Hotels 2. Scanning of encrypted folders to detect malicious threat These projects were not commercially viable but there was a significant learning that we got from these projects.

Senior Application Developer

Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
1 yr 2 mos
Pune Area, India Project : Ingestion of File Feeds from a 3rd Party Data Vendor into The Bank's Big Data Platform and Analytics Engine. Data Visualization, Advanced Analytics using Machine Learning on the Ingested Data. The main aim of this project was automated ingestion of data of the volume few GB from a third party vendor on a daily basis and to derive meaningful insights from the data by converting the data into visualizations and leveraging machine learning to perform advanced analytics. This also involved developing a Dashboard based application that could be potentially used by different stakeholders. Roles and Responsibilities : I was responsible for working with on-boarding and infrastructure team to create the overall architecture design, development and testing of the workflow for data ingestion. This involved choosing the appropriate ingestion channel and mechanism. The choice of optimum authentication mechanism that adheres to Risk and Resiliency standards of The Bank. Designing data payload, schema and structure, creating DB objects, testing data ingestion, debugging ingestion issues. Design standardization of payload and schema so that data from a single vendor can be ingested into Elastic Search and Vertica DB without any changes. Creating prototypes and data visualization using R. Creating dashboards in Tableau and Migrating dashboards to Tableau Server. Implemented a use case of anomaly detection using Kibana and Elastic Search. Tools and Technologies : 1. Apache Hadoop HDFS, Spark, Elastic Search, Vertica Back End and Frameworks 2. Tableau and Kibana Dashboards BI and Data Visualization

Cofounder

May 2018 - May 2018
1 mo
Pune Area, India Me and my friend came up with this idea in his dorm room when plastic was officially banned in State of Maharashtra, India in the month of May 2018. We tied up with manufacturers who were certified by Central Pollution Control Board to manufacture 100% Compostable and Biodegradable bags made up of Corn and Potato Starch. Roles and Responsibilities : . Define the vision and road-map, business model for the company to build an organization that is profitable and sustainable in a highly competitive, unorganized and a stringent regulated market. We were able to build strategic alleys and gain first movers advantage due to our execution ability . Design and development of the company website and SEO : The website was ranked on very high page ranks on web and the listing was on top searches on marketplaces like Indiamart.com non paid organic rankings . Configuration of CRM Like Bitrix24 : This improved operational efficiency, collaboration between teams and better tracking of customer requirements . Branding and positioning of the product . Developing alliances with manufacturers, channel partners, distributors : We were able to build channel partners in 16 districts that had an outreach in 220 villages and towns in Maharashtra We did sale of 1.5 Metric Ton in less than a month. . Creating a supply chain and distribution framework to ensure minimum holding of inventory and reducing the turnaround time of consignment . Handling customer grievances and complaints and taking corrective actions On one fine day, environment minister came on air and allowed plastics above 51 microns, introducing a loop hole. Our sale bottomed down to zero since the product was 4x costly as compared to plastic. HaritKSham brand Registered Trademark is still alive and we are looking to promote other eco-friendly products. Would be more than happy to discuss if you have any products that you would like us to promote, please do reach out.

Senior Application Developer

Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
1 yr 0 mos
Pune Area, India Project : Resiliency Monitoring Application This project was built on top of company's strategic technology platform, it was intended to be one stop destination to highlight the past and present event and SLA level data. Target audience for this project were support team and senior management who would take preventive measures by analyzing the pattern or behavior of particular failure. This project was in top 10 teams which were selected for iNautix Hackathon. I was the one chosen to give the demo and presentation to the senior management and business leaders. Roles and Responsibilities : Involved in designing the application architecture and workflow, the role was more as a full stack developer working in an agile driven environment. Tools and Technologies :

Senior Application Developer

Apr 2016 - May 2017
1 yr 2 mos
Pune Area, India Project : Expense Automation Application. This project was intended to Automate the process of invoice management, review, allocation, distribution and payment which was a spreadsheet based process otherwise, intended to save around 2 million dollars per year. Roles and Responsibilities : 1. Lead a 4 member team that was responsible for provisioning and managing the cloud infrastructure/instance for the application. This involved deployment of the application to the cloud server. 2. This also involved ensuring availability availability of environments for business testing and system integration as part of every new release. 3. This role was more like a DevOps Lead and I was responsible to ensure that the build is stable and deployed on cloud platform so that there is perfect synchronization between development, operations and business all of which were geographically distributed and in 3 different time zones. 4. As an SME of the cloud platform I was involved in capacity planning, architecture design and to ensure that resiliency and application standby conditions in case of instance failure are met for QA and PROD Instances. 5. I was responsible to ensure that all technical requirements for the infrastructure are met and to ensure the paper work and due diligence with approvals is in place, to eventually met the stringent production release deadlines. 6. The team was able to automate the deployment workflow using pipeline based architecture that we created. At the click of a button the application eventually was deployed to cloud platform which was a manual and tedious process earlier. Tools and Technologies :

Application Developer

Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
5 mos
Pune Area, India Project : Portfolio Viewer I was working with a team of senior developers and business unit leads for developing a proof of concept for a futuristic product that was intended to be used by Fund Accountants, Fund Managers, Global Operations Executives and Analysts. This was leveraging some of the internal REST APIs that were built on top of the already existing platform. We were the pilot consumers of the APIs being developed. This project was winner of iNautix Triathlon in November 2015. Roles and Responsibilities : 1. Front end development on Angular Js, HTML, CSS and Bootstrap. 2. Deploying the project to the proprietary cloud environment of The Bank.

Application Developer

Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
1 yr 1 mo
Pune Area, India Project : Eagle Fund Accounting, Security Reference and Pricing I got placed at BNY Mellon Technology Formerly known as iNautix Technologies India Pvt Ltd through VIT campus placement and joined the firm as a Trainee Developer After completing the on board training I was placed in the Asset Servicing Technology Division where I was assigned to develop solutions and provide support, around Eagle Fund Accounting Platform. I was majorly working on Security Reference and Pricing modules of the Eagle Fund Accounting Tool. I was responsible to develop solutions leveraging Eagle Components to process the incoming and outgoing Price Feeds from and to The Bank for all the Fund Accounting Clients. Roles and Responsibilities : My job was to catch bugs, incidents and issues and re-mediate it at the right time before it could potentially snowball into something that would result into financial/representational impact to The Institution. 1. Support Analyst and Developer, responsible for BAU work which involved analyzing and researching priority production issues escalated by the business operations team to the technology team and providing fixes within a short time frame. 2. Technologies involved - Eagle Pricing Center, Eagle STAR, Eagle Pace, Oracle, PL/SQL and Unix Shell scripting, ETL Interfaces and tools like IBM Websphere, Change Management tools like BMC Remedy 3. Documentation of the changes and issues.

Technical Project Consultant Intern

Jun 2012 - Jun 2013
1 yr 1 mo
Pune Area, India Met masts are crucial in the development of wind farms, as precise knowledge of the wind-speed is necessary to know how much energy will be produced, and whether the turbines will survive on the site. Communication between the mast and the wind energy turbine is of utmost important as the device which collects and compares the data from wind energy turbine and the mast resides at the mast. This communication is done using conventional cables, but the energy industry is facing several issues with theft of cables and their wear and tear and damages by rodents. The aim of the Project was to build a wireless communication system between the wind energy turbine and the mast. This project was to be done in two tranches which is communication between stationary components and communication between rotating components. I was part of a 5 member team that was selected to work on this project. Some of the key learning outcomes of working on this project : 1. Enhance and Improve Understanding of Electronic Product Design and Industrial Communication Standards, things like EMC Compatibility, Component Casing etc. 2. PCB Designing covering concepts like Routing Topology Configurations, Layer Stack up assignment, Grounding Methodologies, Aspect Ratio, Image Planes, Functional Partitioning, Critical frequencies, Bypassing and decoupling. Design techniques for ESD Protection, Guard Band implementation etc. 3. Budgeting, costing, project planning and project management. Learned what all potential factors could jeopardize the success of any project and measures that can be taken to prevent that. This project was just a stand alone proof of concept. TATA Power

Engineering Intern

Jun 2010 - Jun 2010
1 mo
TATA Power, Trombay Thermal Generating Station, Mahul Road, Mumbai . Worked under supervision of the technical team as a shadow team member, on the live project and demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills. . Studied the substation automation system, protection systems and various schemes, Communication systems and IP network, unified SCADA system, Distribution Automation and OSI Soft Plant Information System. . Studied the Fiber Optic Communication Model, different types Multiplexing devices, Remote Terminal Unit, Communication Nodes and the process of splicing the fiber optic cable using fusion splicing mechanism. . Developed strong understanding of the role of Ethics, Code of Conduct, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in Business through workshops and seminars. Studied the TBEM TATA Business Excellence Model at a training session. . Using innovation and creativity skills provided a solution of Automated Meter Reading System AMR for Meter Tampering to reduce revenue losses and Aggregate Technical and Commercial Losses. . Attended internal training sessions that helped in gaining understanding of leadership quotient, the styles of leadership, behavioral aspects, role of leaders in shaping the corporate world. . Studied about industrial safety and safety standards, importance of mock drills and safety assessment to prepare for emergency, type of fires and use of fire extinguisher, electrical equipment handling and safety.

Education

Engineer’s Degree
Honors in Engineering Embedded System Design
2011 - 2014
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Bachelor of Technology B.Tech. Electronics Engineering
2011 - 2014
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
Diploma in Engineering and Technology Electronics and Tele Communication
2008 - 2011