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Hello, my name is

Ishan

CS • BSc

I'm a Toronto based Lead AI/Data Engineer@RBC with a background in LLM's, Data Engineering and Statistics.🤓 . I have extensive experience designing end-to-end solutions from Algorithms, ETL pipelines and Big Datasets to optimize workflows and big data challenges in the financial space.🤖

Experience

RBC

Lead AI & Data Engineer

Focused on orchestrating big data pipelines on Snowflake,Hadoop and building Gen AI/ ML usecases for GLobal Wealth Customers & Advisors.

Lead AI/Data Engineer

Leverage wealth management data to execute ETL and ELT processes on Snowflake. Building GenAI solutions using Hugging Face, OpenAI models deploying on AWS & On-Premises, performing statistical analyses, fine-tuning & RLHF techiques. Learning and reading research papers to enhance the performance of LLMs. Making production ready applications. 

Scotiabank

Senior Data Engineer

Focused on processing big datasets and data analytics support to teams - Global Business Payments, Credit Risk in Carribean, Peru, Canada & US.

Senior Data Engineer

I am responsible for the improvement of SQL and No-Sql queries. Moreover, Analyzing the big data-sets(~100GB per day) and detect fraud transactions. Apart from that, Created various automation tools using python, airflow, JS and reduced 4000 manual hours. 

Scotiabank

Data Scientist

Analyzed datasets to catch Fraud transcations. Supported AML/ATF, Global Business Market, Global Wealth & Cyber security teams.

Data Scientist

Responsible for parsing SWIFT transactions for AML/ATF purposes using Python and R. Moreover, focused heavily on source to target data validation, & completeness testing. Focused on creating models using scikit-learn and nltk. Created and automated ~25 production-ready power BI dashboards 

Hydra

Data Solution Partner

Assisting new or existing Hydra Customers with data warehouse implementation, analytics, and reporting services.

Data Solution Partner

Responsible for ETL to a Hydra data warehouse by linking open source services like airflow, data build tool, airbyte and many-more to completely automate the pipelines for retention metrics, visualizations etc. Moreover, responsible for the data migration from public clouds to hydra. Also, provide assistance with query optimizations.

Sanau

Full-Stack Developer

Responsible for deploying automated sub-domains on the internet using Docker and AWS in the Start-up to support small businesses.

Full-Stack Developer

My key responsibilty was to use Route53 service on AWS and automated the deployment of MERN stack. Moreover, I learned designing docker files for scalability and for high performance. Reduced Production website loading time by 100ms using Gzip compression and Cloudflare

Park2Sky

Web Developer

Responsible for designing, coding and maintaining websites and databases for customers to manage vehicle bookings.

Web Developer

Here, I deep expertise and hand on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JQuery and API's. Furthermore, I am responsible for managing RESTful Services and develop knowledge of Search Engine Optimization(SEO).

Techrangle

Developer

Responsible for managing Azure cloud VM machines and web-server - Nginx to provide web traffic data to the Elasticsearch index's.

Developer

Managed production-level Nginx web server. Moreover, resolved production level Ubuntu server's OS to resolve application port issues using port-forwarding and proxies. Managing the elasticsearch index's and analyzed the data using Kibana

About Me

I was born and raised in India. After completing my high school, I moved to Toronto, Canada to pursue my Bachelors, and have lived here since then.

Outside of work, I enjoy learning about LLM's research papers, configuring and networking servers and deploying services or applications such as Grafana, Hadoop, NodeJS, and more. I like to learn technical or non-technical skills during my free time. I can also solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute and on a path of becoming a better thinker.

Additional Information

Programming Languages: Python, SQL, Git

Most Used Tools: Hugging Face LLM Models (esp - Meta 3.1 8B-70B, Deepseek Models), OpenAI Model API's (GPT 4o, GPT 3.5), AWS Bedrock, AWS Sagemaker Model Deployments( w/ Airflow) for LLMs inferencing in on-premise cloud , AWS, Azure, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Snowflake, DBT

Education

Sheridan College
Adv Diploma in Software & Network Engineering Graduated: 2020 (Honours) Brampton, Canada
McMaster University
B.Tech in Software Engineering Technology Graduated: 2024 Hamilton, Canada
University of Toronto
Masters in Computer Engineering Started: Sept 2024 Dropped out Toronto, Canada
University of Waterloo
Masters in Mathematics in Data Science Starting: Sept 2025 Waterloo, Canada

Skills

Analytics Tools

  • PowerBI90%
    90%
  • Kibana85%
    85%
  • Grafana80%
    80%

Cloud Platforms

  • GCP85%
    85%
  • AWS80%
    80%
  • Azure75%
    75%
  • Cloudflare75%
    75%

DevOps

  • Docker95%
    95%
  • Bitbucket90%
    90%
  • GitHub80%
    80%
  • JIRA90%
    90%
  • Jenkins70%
    70%
  • Maven80%
    80%
  • Gradle85%
    80%

Databases

  • Oracle85%
    85%
  • Sybase80%
    80%
  • MariaDB80%
    80%
  • Microsoft SQL80%
    80%
  • MySQL90%
    90%
  • Microsoft Access50%
    50%
  • SQLite90%
    90%
  • Mongo90%
    90%
  • Postgres90%
    90%

Languages

  • Python97%
    97%
  • R90%
    90%
  • Java90%
    90%
  • C#87%
    87%
  • JavaScript80%
    80%
  • C70%
    70%
  • Objective C60%
    60%
  • Swift80%
    80%
  • PHP80%
    80%
  • HTML & CSS 89%
    89%
  • XML90%
    90%
  • GraphQL90%
    90%

Big Data Tools/Services

  • Trino85%
    85%
  • Apache Rancher75%
    75%
  • Apache Hadoop90%
    90%
  • Apache Hive90%
    90%
  • Apache Spark80%
    80%
  • Apache Cassandra90%
    90%
  • Apache Airflow80%
    80%
  • Presto80%
    80%
  • Teradata85%
    85%
  • Scala70%
    70%
  • Databricks80%
    80%
  • Snowflake85%
    85%
  • Elasticsearch90%
    90%

Projects

Java Projects

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C# Projects

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Unity Projects

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Project's | Live. RealTime.

docker-mern

ChatGPT Bot

Introducing a Streamlit Cloud-deployed ChatGPT-like chatbot powered by OpenAI's GPT-4.0 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo models. Hosted on a private server and exposed via Cloudflare Tunnel.

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IntelliReceipt

OCR Project using OpenCV, Tesseract and EasyOCR to process Retailer Receipts implemented with FastAPI, WSGI (Gunicorn) & Docker hosted in Cloudflare.

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Chat App

NodeJs Real Time Web Application built with Socket.io and Express, which is powered by Docker.

speech2text

Matrix

Matrix is an audiobook app interface which is build with react framework embedded with material UI design and react bootstrap, and contains npm packages.

Big-Data-Services

Big Data Tools

Applications that are deployed on linux such as "Spark", "Hadoop", "Trino" and many more.

DevConnector

DevConnector Docker CI/CD App

This application is MERN application where the deployment is made with Docker, like merging all services such as Databases, React, and other independent containers together.

Awards and Certification

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Azure Certified Data Scientist

validates the skills and knowledge to apply Azure’s machine learning techniques to train, evaluate, and deploy models that solve business problems.

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Employee of the Year 2022 - Scotiabank

"Best of the Best Award" - Top Individual Performance

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Azure Certified Data Engineer

Have a solid knowledge of data processing languages, such as SQL, Python, or Scala, and able to understand parallel processing and data architecture patterns.

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MongoDB Associate Developer

Have hands-on experience completing day-to-day operational tasks needed to use MongoDB.

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Apache Airflow Developer

can demonstrate the fundamental skills needed to effectively create, manage and monitor DAGs on Apache Airflow.

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Power BI Business Analytics Workshop - Microsoft

Completed workshop provided by Microsoft at Scotiabank for Business Analytics using Power BI.

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Software Testing - Visual Studio

Earned Software Testing with Visual Studio Certification for managing test executions.

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Comp TIA Linux+ LPI: System Architecture

Achieved Comp TIA Linux+ System Architecture Certification.

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National Genius Search Foundation

Qualified and Achieved State-Level Rank all over India, held by 'NGSF'.

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International Mathematics Olympiad

Earned rank of 5,636 globally in Mathematics Problem Solving Ability Test.

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