I am a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years of experience in troubleshooting and solving technical problems through the application of data management and analysis. During this period, I have become very passionate about collecting, organizing, and presenting data towards creating actionable insights, either by me or others.

I have excellent computer programming skills and proficient in multiple programming languages including C, C++, Python, and R. I am well-versed with statistical analysis. I am skilled in relational database design and SQL with operations in Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer. I have extensive experience with creating web-based interactive dashboards, visualizations, and reports using both commercial tools such as Tableau and Grafana or self-developed software using Python-dash and R-Shiny. I routinely create text processing and scripting tools for process automation in Windows, Unix, and macOS. I have experimented with Amazon cloud services, docker containers, and machine learning applications.

In my extensive experience, there has always been lots of available data to be managed and analyzed to gather useful insights - the limiting factor in most cases is the availability of time and personnel resources to do it. I have volunteered for various organizations under various capacities. I feel that it is time to continue with my volunteering efforts by using my time, skills, and passion towards gaining insights from data management and analysis.

My core strength is data organization and presentation. I am very skilled at collecting and combining structured and unstructured data, organizing, and presenting them in an easy-to-interpret format. So, I am primarily interested in data management projects, where I believe my contributions could be of high quality and value. All I wish to accomplish in working on these projects is to lay a data foundation that could be of use to the organization for years to come.

Personal information
Full name: Anand Lakshmikumaran
User name: anandvlak
Organization memberships
Not a member of any organization.
Awards
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Volunteer background
Education: PhD on Mechanical Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
Volunteer availability
Start date: Sept. 5, 2023
End date: None
Hours available per week: 10
Volunteering interests
No stated preferences.
Skills
Skill
Beginner
Intermediate
Expert
Python
C/C++/C#
Computer Science (Algorithms)
Java
JavaScript
SQL
Data in Relational Databases
Data in Text Files
Data > 1TB
Data from Sensors
Multimedia Data (Video or Audio)
Text Data (NLP)
Data Visualization
Experience working on real-world problems using data
Experimental Methods (RCTs, A/B testing, etc.)
Data Analysis
Unsupervised models
Decision Trees
SVMs
Random Forests
Time Series Models
Neural Networks / Deep Learning
Semi-Supervised models
Regression Discontinuity
R
Matlab

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