Nirbhaya Shaji
Data Scientist
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNirbhaya Shaji is a Data Scientist based in Porto with eight years of experience applying machine learning and data engineering to finance, emissions modeling, and unstructured data research. Currently at Natixis and pursuing a PhD with INESC, she blends industry production work—default prediction, network embeddings, NLP, and time-series seasonality detection—with academic rigor on predictive models for unstructured data. Her background includes end-to-end data science in FinTech at Lendigo, GPS-to-emission modeling and API development at Instituto de Telecomunicações, and technical editing that sharpened her ability to communicate complex methods. She is skilled at extracting features from non-traditional sources and operationalizing imbalanced-data workflows, making models both practical and robust. Fluent across research and production, she brings a rare combination of deep technical foundations from a PhD pathway and hands-on deployment experience in high-stakes domains.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at DCC-FCUPMaster of Engineering, Computer Science, Master of Engineering, Computer Science at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Kerala University, ThiruvananthapuramMaster's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at Universidade do Porto
Github Skills (28)
internet6
faunadb6
r-package6
sensitive-data5
artemis5
nodejs5
javascript5
tower5
machine-learning4
amazon4
iot4
fail2ban4
python4
database4
vagrant4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nirbhayashaji/MigraR
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
R Shiny code for MigraR application
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
r-packageshinyrstatsshiny-r
nirbhayashaji/diabetes_onset_detection
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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