Vikas Rai

About

Data Analyst with a strong quantitative foundation in mathematics and hands-on experience building dashboards, analytics pipelines, and machine learning models. Seeking an entry-level data analyst role focused on turning data into business decisions.

Experience

• Data Analyst
  Analytics Portfolio Projects
  2026 – Present

  Designed and maintained Power BI dashboards, wrote advanced SQL queries for automated ETL pipelines, built customer segmentation pipelines, and developed interactive Tableau dashboards for sales datasets.

• Subject Matter Expert – Mathematics
  QASolvers Inc
  2025 – —

  Designed curriculum-aligned quantitative problems and applied structured error-identification and analytical review methods to ensure content accuracy.

Education

• Post Graduate Program in Data Science
  University of Texas at Austin
  Data Science · 2025 – 2026
• M.Sc.
  Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith
  Mathematics · 2021 – 2023
• B.Sc.
  Swami Vivekananda Subharti University
  Mathematics · 2018 – 2021

Skills

Tools / apps / platforms

Projects

• ML · Customer Churn Prediction ↗
  Python, Scikit-learn, XGBoost

  Built and evaluated a churn prediction classification model with feature engineering, scaling, and hyperparameter tuning.

• Tableau · Global Sales Performance Dashboard ↗
  Tableau

  Built an interactive executive dashboard analyzing global retail sales across regions, product hierarchies, and demographic segments.

• SQL · Revenue Analysis (E-Commerce) ↗
  MySQL, SQL

  Normalized an e-commerce schema and wrote analytical SQL queries for cohort retention, revenue trends, and churn analysis.

Courses & certifications

• Applied Machine Learning in Python · University of Michigan
• Google Generative AI Leader · Google Cloud
• Microsoft SQL Server Professional Certificate · Microsoft
• Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst · Coursera / Microsoft