Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Data Analyst

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Data Analyst

  • MySecurityMedia
    • Python web scrapping
    • ActiveCampaign CRM python REST API v3
    • Pandas, CSV, EXCEL
    • AWS/Google App Engine/Azure/IBM, python service, schedulling, reporting api, emailing
    • visualization
  • CV Sections, Clear Concise Clean
    • Education
    • Work Experience
    • Skills
    • Extra curricular activities
    • Bullets, no typos, 1-2 page versions, maximum two colors
    • key info in first five words of sentence
    • Soft Skills ( 90% coding, communication related skills)
    • Basic, Advance, Expert ( create library )
    • quality not quantity, nice mature project with advance conncepts
    • Practical and Analytical challenges
  • Skills required
    • SQL ( Insights )
    • Dashboarding, Visualization, Tracking, Monitoring ( R, Tableau, Python)
    • Experimentation ( Hypothesis(a/b) testing, Power Analysis,Metrics/Counter Metrics, Confidence intervals, launch decisions
    • Machine Learning ( REgression, Classification, Time series forecasting, Feature Selection, Model Evaluation
    • Engineering ( Building Pipelines, Productionalizing Models
    • Business Instinct ( Asking right/hard Questions, Exaplaining results, analysis)
  • Do
    • Build with DS projects, find mentors
    • Data Anslysts/ Non Traditional background
    • Skill building via bootcamps, online courses, work on portfolio
    • Stanford ML Certificate
    • Start networking with DS 7 prepping for DS innterviews
    • Use current position and get paried with DS, get mentorship from DS
    • Business Analyst/ Software Engineeer/ Data Engineer
    • Portfolio (kaggle), Hiring Managers
  • DS interview ( 4/5 rounds )
    • Study, interview, Fail, Repeat
    • Study, interview, Fail, Repeat : notice what was missing.
    • SQl(Basic Sytnax, Joins, Windows Functions, Growth Accounting), Statistics(StatQuest video channel, online moocs, Khan Academy,Probablity, Combinatorics, Descriptive Stats), Business Case(Metric Drop Investigations, Product Launch Decision Making), Python(Pandas, numpy, scikitlearn, seaborn)/R, Experimentation(choosing metircs/counter metrics/p-value/confidence intervals), Behavioral (Strong communication, empathy, leadership & influence)
  • Tools
    • (Now) Tableau, Google Data Studio, Microsoft Azure, Google Colab, Kaggle Kernels, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras and Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm, Spider
    • (OS) Ubuntu-Linux, Windows, Mac
    • (Previously) C# , Silverlight, Java, REST Web services , WP7 , Android, MASM615, Java, Eclipse, PHP, CodeIgnitor (MVC)
  • Professional
    • Analyst Software Engineer, TRG TEch (Pvt) Ltd.
    • Micrsoft Community Trainer, 2012
  • Trainings
    • Brainchip AKIDA Machine Learning workshop in collaboration with Perth Machine Learning Group, 2019
  • Courses
    • 2016 Coursera Reasoning, Data Analysis and Writing Specialization from Duke University
    • 2020 Kaggle Introduction to Deep Learning
    • 2020 Kaggle Computer Vision
    • 2020 Kaggle Introduction to Machine Learning
    • Machine Learning Online Course from Coursera, By Andrew NJ.
    • “The Data Scientist’s Toolbox, Getting and Cleaning Data, R Programming” Four Weeks Online Course authorized by John Hopkins University and offered through Coursera
    • “Introduction to Data Science “taught by BILL HOWE Ph.D. Dept.: of Computer Science, University of Washington, U.S.A offered through Coursera
    • IEEE - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Academics
    • Ph.D (Computer Engineering)
      - Projects
    • M.S (Computer Science) - MS Thesis
    • B.S (Computer Science) - Final Year Project - mFusion (Framework for Native Cross-platform Mobile App Development) - C# , Silverlight, Java, REST Web services , WP7 , Android - Semester Projects - Virtual Maze Game - Turbo C++ - E-News Paper Miner - Dev C++ - Stop Watch – Hardware - Encrypto-Decrypto - MASM615 (Low-level Language) - File System Simulator - C#,VS2008 - RegEx to DFA - Java,Netbeans - Online Job Portal - PHP,HTML,JavaScript,CSS,MYSQL - LAN Attendance Manager - Java, Eclipse - Virtual University Project - PHP, CodeIgnitor (MVC)
  • Awards/Grants/Fundings
    • National ICT R&D Grassroot Funding
    • ECU-HEC HRDI PhD Scholarship
    • Ministry of IT Undergraduate Scholarship 1.6 million PKR
    • HEC MS Scholarship (Full Tution Fee)
    • Head Software Project Competition at Procom,2011
    • Winner of “Software Project Competition” at Softec 2011 FAST-NUCES,Lahore
    • Trained at Microsoft Catalyst Business and Technical Trainings,2011
    • Winner Software Project Competition at Probrains 2011 , Karachi University
    • Winner of “Software Project Competition” @ COMBAT 2011, PAF KIET, Karachi
    • Top in “Demo Your Project” @ Folio3 Developer’s Day, Karachi 2011
    • Top in Software Modeling and Designing at TechElite,2010, NED,Karachi
    • Top in Genesis Software Quiz at Procom,2010, FAST-NUCES
    • Runner Up in Asia-Pacific IEEE Ethics Competition
    • Selected Student for Nokia Developers Workshop, Karachi 2011
    • Secured position in FAST-NUCES Dean’s List
  • UG/PG Projects Supervision/Co-supervision/Examiner
    • 2021
    • 2020 with Assoc. Prof. Alex Rassau - Implementation of ROS environment as a robotics hub for Nexxis robots - ECU unmanned ground vehicle development - UGV SLAM implementation for autonomous outdoors navigation - ECU unmanned ground vehicle - Nexxis pilot control project - Drone control and autonomy - Pilot control for robotics hub - ECU UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) Project - Developing Robotics hub - Pilot control for robotics hub
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013

Publications

  • Conference Articles
    • Shaikh, Muhammad Bilal, and Abdul Rehman Soomrani. “ Optimizing Distributed Machine Learning for Large Scale EEG Data Set”. International Conference On Computing And Mathematical Sciences-ICCMS 2017.
    • Rahim, Sahar, Rizwan Maqsood, and Muhammad Bilal Shaikh. “A Novel Energy Management Approach In Smart Grid Challenges And Opportunities”. 4Th International Conference On Energy Environment And Sustainable Development. 2016.
    • Shaikh, Muhammad Bilal, Mehak Marium, and Abdul Rehman Soomrani. “Second Eye Of Blind: A Novel Communicatoin System For Visually Impaired Smartphone Users”. International Conference On Computing And Mathematical Sciences-ICCMS 2017.
    • Shaikh, Muhammad Bilal, Sobia Mansoor, and Dil Nawaz. “Personal Software Quality Assurance : A Novel Approach For Process Improvement”. 2nd International Conference On Emerging Trends In Engineering, Management And Sciences”. 2016.
    • Syed, Faraz, Muhammad Bilal Shaikh, and Zain Hassan. “Virtual Reality Based Meeting System”. First International Conference On Industrial Engineering And Management Applications (IEMA-2017).
    • Shaikh, Muhammad Bilal., Qureshi, Rizwan., Khurshid, Khurram., Multistage Adaptive Filter for ECG Signal Processing accepted in ICMVA’2015 Hong Kong, June 22-23,2015
    • Shaikh, Muhammad Bilal., Qureshi, Rizwan., Anwar, Syed Muhammad., Majid, Muhammad, A Novel Adaptive Algorithm for Removal of Power Line Interference from ECG Signal, accepted & presented at IMTIC’2015 Jamshoro 11-13 Feb 2015 ( will be published in proceedings of Springer Journal)
    • Ahmed, Abrar.,Naveed Ur Rehman, Sahito, Attaullah.,Shaikh, Muhammad Bilal. An Antenna Design for 4G Terminals accepted & presented at ICCET’2014 Khairpur (in proceedings of Sindh University Research Journal)
  • PwC job description (30/3/2021) PDF