Amudhan Venkatesan

Associate Analyst at MasterCard

Summary
~ Graduated from UC Berkeley, with academic, research and professional experience in big data software
systems and statistical business analytics in data mining. Including extensions to computer/data security,
resiliency of systems, optimization and machine learning tools. ~ Interested in full-time technology consulting
and analytics as well as business data consulting opportunities.

Experience
Associate Analyst, Data Scientist at MasterCard
August 2014 - Present (8 months)
- Fraud Analytics/Consulting - Business Data Solutions and Modeling using SAS Enterprise Miner - SQL
development for data analysis and validation - Big Data product development and Hadoop research
Big Data Software Analytics Research Assistant at UC Berkeley
August 2013 - August 2014 (1 year 1 month)
- Did research under Professor Zuo-Jun Shen at UC Berkeley, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Involved in researching and developing a model for corporate scandal analysis, risk management and product
release prediction algorithms. - Use of existing big data models to complete a social media data mining
algorithm as well as text analytics process for real time twitter data streams. Application of data mining
techniques to unstructured retweet and tweet data for parallel processing and optimized data analytics.
- Application of bass diffusion model and agenda-setting theories to predictive algorithm development.
Technology: Python, Hadoop tools
Data Integrity - Undergraduate Software Researcher at UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center
August 2013 - February 2014 (7 months)
- Developed a research project in soft error analysis for data transmission in embedded combinational
logic and flip flops. - Emphasis on optimization of high resiliency tradeoff models to decrease energy
overhead by using CAD based commercial tools to analyze Pareto graphs. - Important derivations drawn to
security in big data transmission and storage as well as integrity and resiliency systems for data analytics.
Languages: C++, Perl Scripting(Basic)
Big Data Technical Consulting Intern at Serendio
June 2013 - August 2013 (3 months)
- Was a member of the big data software research and consulting team for an insurance and social mediabased fraud analytics product. - Also exposed to technologies for setting up sentiment classification, entity
handling and personally developed the big data statistical analysis platform for the insurance fraud analytics
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product. - Utilized tools including HBase, Hadoop cluster setups, Map-Reduce and Multi-thread algorithm
development. Languages: Java, Python
Business Operations and Engineering Intern at Emerson
June 2011 - September 2011 (4 months)
- Involved in analyzing and updating existing operation schedules and human network systems, as well as
handling of on-time failures and production plans. - Conducted project management and optimized resource
loading activies. - Also worked with the production floor on optimization and development of efficient
engineering practices. Developed ideas for local software register optimization and clean-up of legacy
enterprise systems.
Rotational Program Intern at LCS
June 2010 - August 2010 (3 months)
- Involved in the research and development team for localization of software. - Underwent a rotational
internship program with R&D, Sales, Production and Management. - Exposed to ideas in production
analysis, project management and engineering process optimization.

Education
University of California, Berkeley
EECS w/ IEOR, Data Analytics, 2010 - 2014

Courses
EECS w/ IEOR, Data Analytics
University of California, Berkeley
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Data Structures
Computer Architecture
Discrete Math and Computational Probability
Engineering Economics
Signals and Systems
Circuits
Fundamental Algorithms for Systems Modeling,
Analysis and Optimization
Computer Security
Tools of Industrial Engineering
Linear Programming
Technical Firm Leadership
Operations Research 1
Random Processes and Probability Modeling
Entrepreneurs in technology and business

CS 61A
CS 61B
CS 61C
CS 70
E 120
EE 20N
EE 40
EE 144/C244(Graduate)
CS 161
E 10
IEOR 162
IEOR 171
IEOR 160
EE 126
E 198
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Introduction to Current Engineering Projects

Microelectronic Devices and Circuits
Semiconductor physics
Computer Simulation of Industrial Engineering
Systems
Decision Analysis
Computer Science Ethics (Honors)
Game algorithms

E 92
EE 105
EE 130/230M (Graduate)
IEOR 131
IEOR 166
CS H195
MATH 198

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Independent Coursework
Basic Introduction to Database Systems

CS 145 - Stanford

Machine Learning

CS 229 - Stanford Online

Statistical Aspects of Data Mining

STATS202 -Stanford/Google

Languages
English
French
Arabic
Tamil
Hindi

(Full professional proficiency)

(Professional working proficiency)
(Limited working proficiency)
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
(Elementary proficiency)

Skills & Expertise

Python
C++
Programming
Software Engineering
Unix
Java
Simulations
Scheme
Signal Processing
Discrete Mathematics
Discrete Event Simulation
Operational Efficiency
Hadoop
MySQL
Algorithms
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Git
Testing
Big Data
Data Mining
Data Modeling
Quantitative Finance
Machine Learning
Predictive Modeling
Risk Management Consulting
Linear Programming
Mathematical Programming
Project Management
Perl
Electrical Design

Organizations
I.E.E.E
Executive Officer , Industrial Relations (2011-2013). Officer, H.O.P.E. (2010)
August 2010 to August 2013
- Worked with companies including Google , Microsoft and Oracle in organizing and developing an industrial
base at UC's. Led project management and event organization with customer requirement incorporation. Teaching assistant of electrical circuits seminar taught by I.E.E.E. - Member and College representative at
National I.E.E.E seminars and technology briefs.
Leadership Award Scholars Association
Scholar and Member
Cal Software Security
Member , Officer
- Engagement and seminar lead on computer ethics and social implications of technology. - Research in
offline attack modeling on cryptography models.
Associated Students of University of California , Berkeley
Intern
August 2011 to August 2012
Transparency Director : Directly involved in public relations and funding for the college. Developed event
promotion models for local businesses and events.

Honors and Awards

- Leadership Award, University of California Berkeley - Leadership Scholarship, Cal Alumni Association Competent Toastmaster Award, Toastmasters intnl. - National Valedictorian (2008-2010)

Interests
Big Data, Machine Learning Tools, Business Analytics, Technology Consulting, Quantitative Trading and
Investment Optimization, New Technology, Gourmet Cooking

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Volunteer Experience
Mentor at Telementor
August 2014 - Present (8 months)
Involved as a mentor in the MasterCard sponsored telementor project, for engineering and marketing projects
in local high schools.

Projects
Big Data Security
August 2013 to August 2014
Members:Amudhan V.

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Amudhan Venkatesan
Associate Analyst at MasterCard

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