Krishna Desikan
Data Analytics Engineer II
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishna Desikan is a Data Analytics Engineer II with a decade of practical experience translating complex data into actionable insights, currently advancing analytics capabilities at State Farm. A Statistics graduate from UIUC with a Linguistics minor and ongoing MS Analytics work at Georgia Tech, he blends strong statistical foundations with NLP experience—having fine-tuned BERT models for question answering and keyword extraction in production-like settings. His background includes building loss models for insurance, mining millions of news articles to link sentiment with charitable giving, and hands-on big-data ETL and visualization using Python. Comfortable across the analytics lifecycle, Krishna pairs research-driven curiosity with enterprise delivery, and brings the uncommon perspective of linguistic nuance to improve data-driven decision making.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The Orbis School PuneMaster of Science - MS Analytics, Master of Science - MS Analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (34)
python10
data-science9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
gpu9
deep-learning9
gpu-acceleration8
animated8
numpy8
neural-network8
tensor7
acceleration7
autograd7
jax7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EmbarkHI/EmbarkHI
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
krishnadusad/talks
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
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