I like the momentmessy data startsmaking sense.

I studied Computer Science & Engineering at GITAM University in India, finishing in 2024 with a CGPA of 8.75 / 10. That degree is why I think about data the way I do: as systems that have to be designed, not spreadsheets that happen to exist.

Writing code came first. Caring about whether the numbers coming out of that code were actually true came shortly after, and that turned out to be the more interesting problem.

I moved to Sydney for a Master of Data Science at Macquarie University (2024–2026), where the work stopped being about single models and started being about whole systems: schema design, ingestion, data quality, the SQL layer underneath a dashboard, and only then the modelling.

That is the part I kept gravitating towards. Most of my projects now run the entire length of a pipeline rather than picking one comfortable slice of it.

The through-line in my work is refusing to make the data look better than it is. On PayScope I built a data-quality framework that flags invalid records instead of deleting them, so the audit trail survives and an analyst can see exactly what was wrong. Trusted transaction coverage came out at 69.7%, and that number is honest.

The same instinct shows up everywhere else. I use an aggregate-before-join pattern in SQL marts to stop grain mismatches quietly inflating every downstream metric. On the Airbnb model I deliberately excluded leakage columns that would have let it cheat, and when the price field turned out to be 100% null I changed the feature strategy and documented it rather than quietly dropping the dataset.

And I try to make a result explain itself. SHAP on the Airbnb classifier showed that host portfolio size, not price or amenities, drove guest satisfaction, and it explained away a misleading pattern in the raw data at the same time. Two methods landing on the same answer is worth more to me than one impressive score.

Alongside the degree I completed the IBM Data Science and Google Data Analytics Professional Certificates, and I keep building end-to-end projects because that is where the awkward, unglamorous problems live.

I'm currently looking for a junior data analyst or analytics engineer role in Sydney, somewhere the data is genuinely messy and someone is waiting on a decision at the other end of it.