Sanjana Kothari
SWE, ML @ Honeywell | MS DS @ SJSU
Based in San Jose, CA
About
I'm Sanjana, a Software Engineer, ML at Honeywell USA. I graduated with a Masters in Data Science from San Jose State University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from VNIT Nagpur. I have a strong passion for creating a change through technology, focusing on sustainability and social good. Keeping myself engaged through projects, meetups and learning!
Skills
Projects
Experience
Sept 2023 - Dec 2023
Machine Learning Intern at Nokia USA
• Developed a telecommunications QnA system, transitioning from Elasticsearch to fine-tuned BERT models, reducing infrastructure costs by 20%. • Implemented semantic and hybrid search capabilities, fine-tuned models, and integrated LLMs for data enrichment and query optimization.
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Data Engineer Intern at Honeywell USA
• Orchestrated data pipelines to migrate IoT data from CosmosDB to Azure Blob, optimizing CRUD operation costs. • Built Azure data integration pipelines and SQL-based transformation workflows to enable fire safety data analysis.
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Data Scientist at Shell
• Developed time series and regression models for demand forecasting, boosting trade revenue by 33%. • Engineered a PoC for anomaly detection in trade transactions using clustering, followed by regression analysis to assess the risk of flagged outliers and identify high-risk trade patterns.
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Associate Data Scientist
• Built a risk identification model using clustering and outlier detection techniques, to detect compliance risks in transactions, reducing manual compliance review time by 30%. •Designed ETL workflows to process consumer lending data, handling daily incremental loads of 15 GB with a focus on data validation and accuracy.
June 2024 - Present
Software Engineer 2 (ML) at Honeywell USA
• Reduced false alarm rate by 20% using time series anomaly detection on fire safety systems. • Cut compliance reporting time from 45 to 1.5 min by developing a production-grade .NET Core microservice with async task workers, queue orchestration, batch processing and optimized SQL for third-party integration. • Built a RAG system to enable natural language queries over SQL databases, inspection reports, and web sources, accelerating compliance decision-making. • Contributed to a 7% monthly defect reduction by delivering high-impact features for a cloud-based fire safety platform; and supported feature velocity for revenue-critical initiatives.
Education
2022 - 2024
MS in Data Science, San Jose State University
2016 - 2020
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur