Computer Science Engineering · MITAOE Pune · 2023–2027

Rushikesh
Baban Kedar

Data Science & AI/ML specialist — building SQL-driven reporting pipelines, predictive models, and full-stack dashboards. National Finalist at Insightfy 6.0 (IIM Lucknow), Rank 1 in the Data Analysis Round.

#1
National Rank
Insightfy 6.0 · IIM Lucknow
4
Projects
ML · Analytics · Deployed
2
Internships
AI/ML & Finance Analytics
Pune
Location
Maharashtra, India
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Featured Achievement
National Finalist · Insightfy 6.0 Analytics Competition, IIM Lucknow
Ranked 1st nationally in the Data Analysis Round & 2nd in the Case Study Round — advanced to the Online Grand Finale.
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About Me

Computer Science Engineering student at MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune. Specialising in Data Science, AI/ML, and Full-Stack Development — with a focus on turning raw data into actionable business decisions.

Completed 2 industry internships in AI engineering and financial analytics, plus a live deployed project (JobSearchy) serving real users. National Finalist at Insightfy 6.0 (IIM Lucknow), Rank 1 nationally in the Data Analysis Round.

I enjoy taking ideas from notebook to production — whether that's a transformer-based caption generator, a customer-upgrade propensity model, or a live job-hunting platform with automated reporting.

LocationPune, Maharashtra – 412105
EducationB.Tech Computer Science Engineering, MITAOE · CGPA 7.43
FocusData Analytics · AI/ML · Full-Stack

Core Proficiencies

Languages & Querying
PythonSQLJavaJavaScriptC++
Data Science & ML
PandasNumPyScikit-LearnXGBoostSHAPHugging FaceSMOTEStatsmodels
Visualisation & BI
Power BITableauPlotlyMatplotlibSeaborn
Web & Backend
ReactNode.jsExpress.jsFlaskREST APIsGradio
Databases & Tools
MySQLSQLiteMongoDBGitJupyterGoogle Colab
Live · Production

JobSearchy — live in production

End-to-end Python + SQL job-hunting agent. Scrapes 500+ jobs from 7 sources, scores each against your resume with TF-IDF, and delivers automated reports. Click the live preview below, or open it in a new tab.

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500+
Jobs / Run
7
Scrapers
1,480+
Jobs Indexed
Daily Scan
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Work Experience

BB Advisory
Finance Analytics
Finance & Market Analytics Intern
  • Performed quantitative analysis on multi-source financial datasets for portfolio optimisation and pair-trading strategy evaluation
  • Built Python pipelines to clean, merge, and model market data; automated repetitive processing tasks
  • Generated analytical reports and dashboards translating quantitative outputs into investment insights
Jul – Sep 2025
Remote
CodSoft
AI / ML
AI / ML Intern
  • Built an AI Image Caption Generator using Vision Transformer (ViT) + GPT-2 — a transformer-based CV+NLP pipeline
  • Leveraged Hugging Face VisionEncoderDecoderModel combining image feature extraction with natural language generation
  • Deployed end-to-end in Google Colab with a Gradio web interface for real-time captioning
Jun – Jul 2025
Remote
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Selected Projects

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JobSearchy — AI-Powered Job Hunting Agent
Live

End-to-end Python + SQL data platform that scrapes 500+ jobs from 7 sources, scores each using TF-IDF cosine similarity against a user's resume, and delivers ranked reports via email and Telegram. SQLite backend with normalised schemas. Flask backend with 15+ REST endpoints powering a React dashboard. Automated 4×-daily scheduler. Currently live in production on Render with 1,480+ jobs indexed.

Deployed: Render + GitHub CI/CD · Pipeline: 7 scrapers in parallel · DB: 1,480+ jobs
PythonSQLFlaskSQLiteReactTF-IDFScikit-Learn
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Bengaluru Restaurant Market Intelligence
Rank #1 National

Comprehensive EDA on 844 Bengaluru restaurants across 8 localities. Cleaned and standardised raw Zomato data; applied 5 statistical tests across 15 visualisations to uncover pricing, rating, and locality-level patterns. Key finding: price has near-zero correlation with customer ratings (r = −0.01). Delivered actionable recommendation: HSR Layout as the top untapped market opportunity.

Competition: Insightfy 6.0 · IIM Lucknow · Result: Rank 1 Nationally
PythonPandasPlotlySciPyStatsmodelsEDA
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CraveConnect — Customer Upgrade Propensity Model
Rank #2 National

End-to-end ML classification pipeline on 1,000+ customer records (18 behavioural & demographic features) predicting membership-upgrade propensity. Applied SMOTE for class imbalance; benchmarked Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost — final model achieved AUC-ROC of 0.7969. Used SHAP values for per-customer feature attribution. Engineered propensity score buckets driving an estimated ₹33K annual revenue uplift.

Competition: Insightfy 6.0 · IIM Lucknow · Impact: ₹33K estimated uplift
PythonXGBoostSHAPSMOTEScikit-LearnPandas
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AI Image Caption Generator — ViT + GPT-2

Transformer-based computer vision + NLP pipeline that generates natural-language captions for any image. Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder extracts image features; GPT-2 decoder generates fluent captions. Built using Hugging Face VisionEncoderDecoderModel — an advanced architecture over conventional CNN+RNN approaches. Deployed end-to-end with a Gradio interface for real-time image upload and instant captioning.

Architecture: ViT encoder + GPT-2 decoder · Framework: Hugging Face Transformers · Deployed: Gradio on Colab
PythonHugging FaceViTGPT-2GradioPyTorch
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The Journey · 2023 → 2027

2023
Joined MITAOE Pune
Began B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering at MIT Academy of Engineering, Pune — the start of the journey.
Jun – Jul 2025
AI/ML Internship · CodSoft
Built transformer-based ViT + GPT-2 image captioning pipeline. First deep-dive into production-grade CV + NLP work.
Jul – Sep 2025
Finance Analytics Internship · BB Advisory
Built Python pipelines for portfolio optimisation and pair-trading analysis. Translated quantitative outputs into investment-ready dashboards.
2026 · Live
JobSearchy Deployed
Designed & shipped an end-to-end AI job-hunting platform with 7 scrapers, TF-IDF matching, SQL pipeline, and automated 4×-daily reporting. Currently in production with 1,480+ jobs indexed.
2027
B.Tech Graduation · Next Chapter
Graduating with a focus on data analytics, AI/ML, and scaled systems. Open to full-time roles in data-driven teams.
Rushikesh Baban Kedar
Data Analytics · SQL · Python · BI
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A tightly crafted, role-targeted resume covering my data analytics & AI/ML work, BB Advisory internship, and the Insightfy 6.0 national finals. Updated regularly — always the latest version.

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What People Say

Rushikesh consistently delivered clean, production-ready analytics work during his internship with us. His Python data pipelines were a standout — fast, readable, and impressively well-automated.

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BB Advisory — Team Lead
Finance & Market Analytics · 2025

His Insightfy 6.0 submission stood out for both technical rigour and business storytelling. Ranking first nationally in the Data Analysis round is a strong signal of his analytical depth.

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Insightfy 6.0 — IIM Lucknow
Competition Organising Committee · 2025
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