About Me

Hello, This is Anju Mercian.

After completing my Master's in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, I worked as a Software Engineer for Intel for half a decade, in their Chandler, Arizona campus. Loved Arizona, such a wonderful state and Chandler was an amazing city; so many places to hike, I love the outdoors. But the summers were really hot, still tolerable. 😀

Moved to the Bay Area for personal reasons, worked freelance as a Technical Project Manager, Business Anaylst and Data Analyst. During my freelancing journey I realized my passion for data; analyzing data and using data for prediction and story telling, which led me to upskilling. I took several online courses in Udacity, Udemy and Coursera on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Engineering, Full Stack Engineering and Computer Vision, received certifications and upskilled. To gain experience working on real-world projects, I volunteered at a startup social enterprise called Omdena. Currently, I am working full time for Meta as a Data Engineering Consultant.

Work Experience

Meta Platforms Inc

Mar 2022 - current
Data Engineer
  • Creating Data Pipelines and building dashboards for the Portal Dogfooding Team

Omdena

Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Lead ML Engineer and Product Lead
  • Developed and launched “Smart Safe Route”-an AI-tool that identifies safe routes during earthquakes
  • Worked on a “Credit Scoring System” - an AI-tool that helps people secure loans without a bank account.
  • Project “COVID-19 Economic Policies Analysis” to illustrate the economic impact on wage losses
  • Built and Launched “Safe Solutions for Adverse Climate” an AI-based recommendation tool that suggests nature-based solutions to help societies and ecosystems adapt to drastic climate changes and mitigate adverse impacts for WRI(World Resources Institute)
  • Worked on a project “Land Ownership Authenticator”, an AI-tool to authenticate land transfer and ownership for corporations and people in Africa that promotes good governance and fights corruption.

Intuitive Surgical

Sept 2018 - Dec 2019
Business Analyst
  • Project Lead responsible for creating Business Requirements for Product Life Cycle Management Software 2.0.
  • Designed and developed automated tools for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance.
  • Coordinated and successfully launched the Marketing Automation Tool Project (Marketo)
  • Developed automated email templates for Marketo using HTML and CSS

VMware (Consultant)

Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Technical Project Manager
  • Strategize Data Compliance to manage, regulate and protect Personal (GDPR) data.
  • Execution and implementation of EU compliance via Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) tools, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) algorithms & tools and instrumenting data policies for Enterprise-wide.

Intel Corporation

Mar 2011 - Sept 2016
Software Engineer
  • TPM and Tech-Lead to start two new chip-manufacturing factories from the network perspective, including network architecture, deployment and software configuration
  • Developed & Automated Network applications that reduced production issues by 15%.
  • Team Leadership: Mentored and managed 3 new hires on networking team and client operations. Managed a team of 6 members for Project delivery and coordinated efforts to ensure independent work, zero production issues after deployment and successful delivery to meet deadlines.
  • Consistently exceeded expectations in the annual performance review, promoted after 2 years.
  • Designed and developed a database system for the Infrastructure that helped reduce the workload of 6 technicians by 65% which allowed them to work on other projects.
  • Factory downtime Project manager, lead 12 projects for the factory with 0% production downtime.

Skills

Data Engineering

  • Postgres
  • MySQL
  • Spark
  • Apache Cassandra

Programming Languages

  • C++
  • Python

Machine Learning

  • Supervised Learning
  • Unsupervised Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Convoluted Neural Networks (CNN)
  • Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
  • LSTM
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • Pytorch
  • pandas
  • numpy
  • seaborn
  • matplotlib
  • NLP Libraries: SpaCy, Gensim, NLTK

Front End

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript

Back End

  • Flask
  • NodeJs
  • Express
  • Django

AWS

  • Redshift
  • SageMaker
  • S3
  • EMR

Projects

Project 1
Data Engineering Nano Degree

Contains projects completed during Udacity Data Engineering NanoDegree Course

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Project 1
Deep Learning Nano Degree

Contains projects completed during Udacity Deep Learning NanoDegree Course

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Project 2
Full Stack - Casting Agency

Capstone Project for Udacity Full Stack Nanodegree

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Project 3
Computer Vision Nano Degree

Contains projects completed for Udacity Computer Vision Nano Degree

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