Ashish Juttu

Hey! I'm Ashish. I'm originally from India and currently finishing up my Master's in Applied Data Science at Clarkson University here in New York.

I've been working in the data field for about 4 years now. I started my career as a Implementation Analyst at ZeroCodeHR back in Hyderabad, where I was helping clients with their HR systems and doing a lot of data analysis work. It was actually pretty interesting - working with 25+ different clients taught me how to adapt quickly and understand different business needs.

After that, I moved into a Data Engineer role at this startup called Kalpkriti. That was a game-changer for me because I got to work with much larger datasets - we're talking about 6 million+ users - and I really dove into building data pipelines and processing systems. Working remotely for a startup also taught me to be pretty self-directed and resourceful.

Now at Clarkson, I'm doing research as a Research Assistant, focusing a lot on machine learning model evaluation and NLP projects. I've been working on some cool stuff - like a customer churn prediction model where I managed to improve accuracy by 12%, and I've been diving deep into text classification and summarization using models like BART.

I've got several projects on my GitHub that I'm pretty proud of - everything from NLP work to retail price optimization to building data pipelines with tools like Airflow and Spark. I really enjoy the whole process of taking raw data and turning it into something that can actually help make business decisions.

The thing I love most about this field is how it's constantly evolving. There's always something new to learn!