Shriansh Chari
Data Analyst
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolShriansh Chari is a data analyst and curious problem-solver with eight years of experience blending hands-on engineering and applied analytics, currently pursuing an MS in Data Analytics at San José State University. He has built predictive models (XGBoost), performed EDA and visualization with Pandas/NumPy/Matplotlib, and mentored student teams at Purdue’s Data Mine while serving as scrum master. Shriansh also applies computer vision and OCR (OpenCV, Tesseract) to real-world ingestion problems and has practical web development experience from a state agency project. An active open-source contributor, he has influenced gameplay balance as a back-end developer on the widely used Pokémon Showdown simulator by implementing tiering and ban-list logic. Beyond academics, he designs and teaches coding workshops and logistics for large competitive events, demonstrating a rare mix of technical depth, teaching aptitude, and event operations. His penchant for extracting insights from hobbies like basketball and competitive Pokémon underscores a disciplined, statistics-first approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics at San José State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (major), Data Science (major), Political Science (minor), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (major), Data Science (major), Political Science (minor) at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, STEM, High School Diploma, STEM at Cupertino High School
Github Skills (13)
data-manipulation10
showdown10
sh10
typescript10
load-balancing10
typescripts10
rebalancing10
game-development10
typescript-types10
data-structure9
version-control9
data-structures9
git9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
smogon/pokemon-showdown
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Pokémon battle simulator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 PRs, 5 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Shriansh primarily contributed to the Pokémon Showdown repository by implementing and updating the in-game tiering system and ban lists for different Pokémon games. Their contributions involved modifying TypeScript files to reflect tier changes for various Pokémon, including banning and unbanning certain Pokémon in specific game formats like BDSP, ZU, NU, BW1, and OU. The user also added new aliases for moves and restricted the use of certain abilities and items, impacting gameplay dynamics.
mongamebattlesimulationsimulator
shrianshChari/pokemon-showdown-client
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
The client for Pokémon Showdown
Contributions:51 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 5 months
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