Harshini .v
Business & Data Analyst | Power BI, Excel & Financial Reporting
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Data-literate analyst with hands-on experience building Power BI dashboards, automating data pipelines, and translating raw operational data into decision-ready insight.
Background spans enterprise software delivery, ETL/data migration work, and statistical modelling (MSc Data Science, 94.5% model accuracy). Comfortable learning new business systems quickly and presenting findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience
Java Full Stack Developer - Cognizant Technology Solutions
(2022-01 - 2023-12)
- Extracted, transformed and migrated data across legacy and modern systems via Python ETL pipelines, processing 10,000+ records per day with high accuracy.
- Built and maintained backend systems and reporting interfaces supporting operational decision-making for a major retail client with 50,000+ monthly active users.
- Worked across 8-person cross-functional Agile team, gathering requirements from business stakeholders and translating them into technical and reporting deliverables.
- Queried and manipulated relational data (MySQL, Oracle) to support business reporting and system integration during platform modernisation.
- Mentored junior team members and communicated technical findings to non-technical colleagues, demonstrating strong written and verbal presentation skills.
Business Intelligence & Analytics Projects - Independent / Academic Projects
(2023-01 - 2024-12)
- Designed and built an interactive Power BI sales analytics dashboard, visualising KPIs and trends to support data-driven business decisions for an e-commerce dataset.
- Built automated data-cleaning and pre-processing pipelines in Pandas, cutting data preparation time by 60% — directly applicable to fast, accurate management reporting.
- Developed and tuned predictive models (Random Forest, XGBoost) achieving 0.91 AUC, demonstrating strong numerical and analytical rigour applied to forecasting-style problems.
Education
MSc - Data Science (Advanced Practice) - Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK (2023-01 - 2025-01)
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering - CMR Engineering College, JNTUH, India (2018-07 - 2022-07)

