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
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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