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Saket Khandelwal

Data Scientist
Melbourne

Summary

Determined data scientist whose objective is to solve real world problems. Has been exposed to many fields of software engineering and Data Science with hands-on experience in developing projects in those fields.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Data Scientist

Telstra Corporation
Melbourne, VIC
04.2022 - Current
  • Translated business requirements into data-driven solutions, providing value-added insights that directly contributed to the organization's strategic goals.
  • Design, implement, and maintain ETL pipelines and analytical models using AWS (Glue, Spark, Redshift, S3), Python, and SQL.
  • Develop recommendation systems and propensity models to optimize customer product suggestions.
  • Build customer segmentation and retention models, delivering actionable insights to marketing and sales teams.
  • Implement machine learning and data governance systems to effectively monitor datasets, ensure data quality, and support compliance.
  • Translated business requirements into data-driven solutions, providing value-added insights that directly contributed to the organization''s strategic goals.

Graduate Data Specialist

Telstra Corporation
Melbourne, VIC
2 2021 - 04.2022
  • Assist in implementing and maintaining automated ETL data pipelines while ingesting data across multiple sources using Spark, Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Python.
  • Implemented SCD methodologies to generate historical data for data warehouses.
  • Involved in creation of business rules for data migration from legacy to state-of-art systems.
  • Analysed data for Business products and created visualisations to gain insights by leveraging Power BI and Azure Synapse.
  • Developed and Implemented Anomaly detection algorithms to detect anomalies with product related metrics.
  • Experience working in a full agile environment.

Summer Research Intern

Melbourne Data Analytics Platform
01.2020 - 04.2020

Responsibilities

  • Assist in scope definition and planning for numerous research collaboration projects.
  • Developed a Data Processing Pipeline using MongoDB, Elastic Search and python.
  • Worked on large-scale social media text analysis to gain insights on gendered hate speech and domestic using parallel-processing and Natural Language Processing.
  • Implemented visualisation dashboards using Dash for social media network analysis.
  • Developed a Machine Learning Pipeline to automatically extract information from legal judgments to assist law practitioners using Machine Learning (Deep Learning, Heuristics, Word embeddings).

Accomplishments

  • Experience working with researchers and professors in academia and writing a research paper which was accepted by Australian Language Technology Association (ALTA).

Software Engineer

aCommerce
06.2018 - 01.2019

Responsibilities

  • Developed data retrieval end point services (API) using the Django Rest Framework.
  • Worked with tables from MongoDB/Postgres/sqlite databases with Python.
  • Assist in scope definition and planning.
  • Worked with automation build and deploy tools.
  • Experience with agile environment, Git and Jira.

Accomplishments

  • Creation of a new end-to-end seller management system.

Assistant Researcher

National University of Singapore
06.2017 - 08.2017
  • Visualized the effects of insider threats on complex network systems.
  • Design and develop a visualizer for a mathematical model using Flask and Angular.

Education

Master of Science - Data Science

The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC
03.2019 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi
Thailand
08.2014 - 05.2018

Timeline

Data Scientist

Telstra Corporation
04.2022 - Current

Summer Research Intern

Melbourne Data Analytics Platform
01.2020 - 04.2020

Master of Science - Data Science

The University of Melbourne
03.2019 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

aCommerce
06.2018 - 01.2019

Assistant Researcher

National University of Singapore
06.2017 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi
08.2014 - 05.2018

Graduate Data Specialist

Telstra Corporation
2 2021 - 04.2022
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