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Shirya Kaul

Brisbane,QLD

Summary

Data Analyst with hands-on experience in Snowflake, Power BI, and cloud-based pipelines across sectors like mining, healthcare, insurance, education, and government. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, streamlining manual processes, and delivering scalable, self-serve analytics using DBT and Databricks to drive data-informed decisions.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Specialist Data Analyst

BHP
01.2025 - Current
  • Built and maintained end-to-end Snowflake data pipelines to improve rostering, maintenance, finance, and production reports.
  • Developed financial data models using DBT and Power BI Dataflows, cutting data extraction time by 40%.
  • Improved query performance by 30% by fixing data quality issues using advanced SQL and optimized Snowflake warehouse design.
  • Automated data collection from SharePoint, Excel, and emails using Power Automate, reducing manual work and increasing consistency.
  • Automated data flow from the EOS Fleet Management System to DBT and Power BI Dataflows using Python scripts, supporting mining maintenance reporting for trucks and fleet cycle insights.
  • Worked closely with business teams to gather requirements and translate them into clear user stories and solution designs for Agile delivery.
  • Created and presented Power BI dashboards to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making.
  • Took full ownership of data issues and enhancements from discovery to resolution, ensuring timely communication with all stakeholders.

AI & Data Consultant

EY
07.2021 - 05.2024
  • Led the team working with an insurance client, collaborating closely with stakeholders to gather and refine reporting requirements through user story sessions and journey mapping.
  • Spearheaded the development of a fatigue rating dashboard for Queensland Police Service using Power BI and SQL, improving their rostering system.
  • Developed an LLM-powered medical report summarization app for healthcare clients by integrating Databricks and OpenAI APIs, boosting document processing efficiency.
  • Managed stakeholder engagement, providing training and support to help business users understand ML model results and adopt automation confidently.
  • Led deployments of predictive model APIs using GitLab, ensuring smooth production delivery of ML solutions.
  • Ingested and transformed data from Databricks Lakehouse with snowflake, enhancing data quality and query performance.
  • Mentored junior analysts on ML modeling and Postman to promote a learning culture within the team.
  • Maintained clear communication and managed expectations across delivery sprints through regular demos, progress check-ins, and thorough Confluence documentation.

Project Officer

QUT
08.2019 - 12.2020
  • Analysed data and created visualizations to identify trends, boosting student enrolment strategies.
  • Integrated SQL and Excel data sources into Power BI for comprehensive business insights.
  • Optimized data models and relationships to support complex queries and enhance performance.
  • Created optimized SQL views in SSMS for data governance and role-based access, improving Power BI model performance.
  • Utilized advanced Excel features, to analyse and transform student data, identifying student performance trends and interests.
  • Created reports for educators to address their queries, helping guide course adjustments and improve student engagement.
  • Worked with educators to resolve defects in reports, improving the quality of insights for better decision-making.

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Cybage Software
06.2017 - 05.2019
  • Authored Java test scripts, enhancing test coverage by 40% for DCIM platform features.
  • Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipeline, maintaining new feature releases.
  • Led stakeholder meetings to present findings, prioritize bug fixes, and ensure alignment on requirements.
  • Maintained test scripts with Jenkins and Selenium, reducing release cycles by 40%.
  • Conducted UAT, smoke, and regression testing, reducing production issues.
  • Authored technical documents, including Test Requirement Specifications, User Stories and User Cases to clearly define and communicate project requirements.

Education

Master of Information Technology - Data Science

Queensland University of Technology
06-2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Software Engineering

Chitkara University
06-2017

Skills

  • Analytics & Engineering: Data Engineering, ETL, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Data Visualization, Power BI, Snowflake, Power Automate, DBT, Databricks
  • Generative AI: LLM Fine Tuning, Transformers, Open AI APIs, Prompt Engineering, Hugging Face Transformers
  • Cloud Platforms: Azure DevOps, ADF
  • Languages: Python, PySpark, SQL, Java
  • DBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SSMS
  • Frameworks & Tools: Agile, Confluence, SharePoint, Jira, Version Control (Git)
  • Soft Skills: Business Analysis, Team Collaboration, Verbal, and Written Skills, Stakeholder Management, Presentation Skills, Technical Writing, and Documentation

Certification

  • Managing Machine Learning Projects with Google Cloud
  • EY Artificial Intelligence - Applied AI - Bronze Learning (2024)
  • ChatGPT for Beginners: SciFi Writing with Dall-e
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

Timeline

Specialist Data Analyst

BHP
01.2025 - Current

AI & Data Consultant

EY
07.2021 - 05.2024

Project Officer

QUT
08.2019 - 12.2020

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Cybage Software
06.2017 - 05.2019

Master of Information Technology - Data Science

Queensland University of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - Software Engineering

Chitkara University

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