Balaka Biswas

Balaka Biswas

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Software Engineer @ TCS | MLH Fellow (Spring 2021) | Machine Learning enthusiast
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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  • Motion
    SDE Intern
    Motion
    May 2026 - Current (6 months)
    Customer Software Development Intern, Dynamics 365 CRP, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Atlassian Confluence, Github
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Student Assistant
    University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)
    Working as a on-campus student assistant at the International Student and Scholar Services(ISSS), UAB. Roles and responsibilities: 1. Make the data workflow faster and more precise to minimize query lookup time for DSOs. 2. Maintain, update, and organize the university's student and scholar database. 3. Aid international students with immigration questions, CPT, OPT, and STEM OPT document management. 4. Take part in planning and executing UAB NISO(New International Student Orientation) for every term. Skills: Database Management, Big Data, Data Analytics, Team Management, Team Training, Planning
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Product Engineer
    Tata Consultancy Services
    Jul 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 1 month)
    Role and responsibilities : 1. Enhanced vendor selection by 18% by implementing shipment-delivery lead time prediction using Machine Learning to identify profitable vendors and filter out potential losses. 2. Fine-tuned sales prediction by over 26% by developing a Time-Series Forecasting model using Regression Analysis on the last 10 years' sales data. 3. Reduced the update time of bulk inventory data (>100 entries) by 12%, using the Excel upload feature - planned and undertook the end-to-end development of the REST APIs. 4. Engineered a streamlined report system by integrating Spring Boot services to generate consolidated PDFs, reducing print time by 15% and enhancing user efficiency for over 1,000 daily transactions, resulting in a 20%
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    Data Scientist
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 1 month)
    I worked as a Software engineer for 1 year, developing their product (website) and integrating Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Data Analytics into their solution. Languages/Tools: Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Tableau, Flask, SQLite, Git, Jira Achievements/responsibilities : 1. Participated in raw data creation by extracting user ratings of various educational institutions across the state from Google reviews. 2. Ensured higher data quality and model accuracy by collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather and preprocess data from various sources. 3. Increased website traffic by creating interactive data visualizations using tools like Matplotlib and Seaborn that enhanced data-driven storyt
  • Major League Hacking
    Open Source Developer (Fellow)
    Major League Hacking
    Feb 2021 - Apr 2021 (3 months)
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    Open Source Mentor
    Aug 2020 - Oct 2020 (3 months)
    I was the mentor for the project "Malaria Detection using Deep Learning", which was registered under HakinCodes for Contributors' Hack 2020. My responsibilities were to guide the participants through the project and review their code / documentation. Verify the certificate at : https://verify.givemycertificate.com/verify/2010003512000015
  • Getboarded
    Data Science Lead + Dashboarding Intern
    Getboarded
    May 2020 - Aug 2020 (4 months)
    My roles as a Data Science lead intern were : 1. Identifying hiring indicators for recruitment process. 2. Mapping hiring indicators to candidates via BI/Excel dashboarding. 3. BI/Excel based skill dashboarding for candidates.
  • Girlscript Summer of Code
    Open Source Contributor(Data Science)
    Girlscript Summer of Code
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2020 (4 months)
    GSSoC is a 3 months long open source contribution challenge which is conducted by GirlScript Foundation in the window of March to June. I had contributed to a project on recommendation engine. Rank : 72
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  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
    master, Master of Science - MS, Data Science
    University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)
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    Fellow, Open Source
    MLH FELLOWSHIP
    Jan 2021
  • Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata
    bachelor, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science
    Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2022 (4 years 1 month)
  • Apeejay School Kolkata
    SSC, AISSCE, Science
    Apeejay School Kolkata
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2018 (14 years 1 month)
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