Utsha Saha

Data Engineer & AI/ML enthuasist

github   @uts58 ↗

linkedIn   @uts58

ResearchGate    @here ↗

About

Hi Everyone, this is Utsha. Why need sleep when there's data to clean? That's the motto I go by.

Other than data, I enjoy fishing & cooking those fishes lol! 🐟

Work Experience

 August 2024 - Present

Software Developer - Ag Data Analytics, North Dakota State University

Turning farm chores into code—slinging agricultural data into data engineering pipelines like a digital farmer! 

• Python  • SQL  • ETL  • Data Engineering  • HPC  • PowerBI  • Linux  Agriculture

 May 2024 - August 2024

Summer Research Assistant - Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, North Dakota State University

Optimizing and evaluating large language models to ensure you can rely on ChatGPT for accurate financial advice for absolutely free! 😉

• Python  • SQL  • ETL  • Large Language Model  • ChatGPT/Gemini/LLama/Claude

 Jan 2024 - August 2024

Intern - CCAST, North Dakota State University

Having fun playing Tetris with data pipelines and fidgeting with High Performance Computation clusters, all in the name of science and stuff (fun of course).

• Python  • SQL  • ETL  • Data Engineering  • HPC  • PowerBI  • Linux

 Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Student ITs/ Graduate TA - North Dakota State University

Played tech superhero for students and profs, making glitches vanish and Wi-Fi fly, while moonlighting as a code wizard, turning students into (somewhat) JavaScript-juggling, Angular-angling, Linux-loving ninjas. 🥷

IT Support  • Teaching/ Lecturing  Linux  • JavaScript 

 Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

Data Engineer Consultant - Vitispro

Became the sommelier of data, swirling, sniffing, and sipping through ETL pipelines for lots of wine websites, using a cocktail of tech tools to distill a fine vintage of data for Winesfere.com, all while cellaring terabytes of data monthly in a bespoke PostgreSQL wine cellar. 

Python  SQL/ NoSQL  • Kafka  • Airflow  • Hadoop  • ETL  • Data Engineering  • DevOps  • Linux

 Feb 2020 -  Jan 2021

Application Developer - Banglalink Digital

Composed symphonies with microservices for a million daily fans, teamed up with the law to put a stop to phone villains, whipped Linux servers into self-healing shape, and turned business puzzles into crystal-clear charts, all while being the superhero hotline for tech SOS calls.

Python  • Java  • SQL/NoSQL  • NGINX  • DevOps  • Linux

Side Projects

 2023

Job Hunting For Int'l Students In The USA: Data-Driven Insights 🌎💼

Decided to dissect the current job landscape to see if there's still a glimmer of hope for international students (I'm talking about myself).🥲 

• Python  • Pandas  • NLTK  • WordCloud  • Matplotlib  • Jupyter

 2023

Handshake-H1b-Checker 🤝

Got bored of manually checking if companies sponsor H1B, so spawned up a google chrome extension. 🤦🏼‍♂️

JavaScript Chrome

 2021

Binance-Trading-Bot 🪙

Guess how much money I lost in crypto?

• Python  • WebSocket  • TA  • Binance  • Pandas  • Numpy

 2019

Retro-2D-Space-Shooter 🚀☄️

Super proud of this project! Crafted everything from the ground up, except for the background stars—those were borrowed from another GitHub repo, lol.

C++ OpenGL

Education

 Jan 2023 - Current

MSc. in Computer Science - North Dakota State University

Got em graduate assistantship scholarship for the study, yay my bank and student loan!

 Jan 2015 - Dec 2019

Bsc. in Computer Science & Engineering - American International University Bangladesh

Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing...