Erik Castro

Erik Castro

Data Scientist and Software engineer
United Kingdom

About Me

Data Scientist and Software engineer, with a background in Computer Science. Experienced in back-end engineering (Python, Java, SQL, PLSQL),data modelling, statistical analysis, machine learning (ski-learn, Pandas, NumPy…

Experience

Data Analyst

Yield4finance
Jun 2020 - Present · 6 years 4 months

Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on data to discover patterns or anomalies.
Present findings of EDA with recommendations and possible solutions.
Increment Instagram Influence - Github
NLP and Machine Learning to increment Instagram influence
● Generated a dataset of 13k images and related metadata with Instagram Graph API and web scraping.
● Employed Natural Language Process for feature engineering and image classification based on instagram users interactions.
● Created a prediction engine to forecast images that will produce the highest user retention rate increasing likelihood of engagement.
● Fully automated instagram procedure using Amazon AWS to create posts and follow new users increasing an instagram account from 0 to 15k followers in under a month.

Data Analyst

Yield4Finance, United Kingdom, London

<p>Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on data to discover patterns or anomalies.<br>
Present findings of EDA with recommendations and possible solutions.</p>

Financial Trader

Samuel And Comp Trading, United Kingdom, London

<p>Developed in-depth reports of technical, fundamental, political behavioural and macroeconomic influences within the financial markets, including currencies, commodities and equity markets.<br>
Create analysis reports to summarise trading performance statistics and outline future developments.</p>

Oracle Developer

Drive Software Solutions, United Kingdom, London

<p>Responsible for the design, construction, unit test, code review and bug fix of allocated modules to agreed time.<br>
Development of solutions for enhancements based on technical specifications.</p>

Skills

Analytics Data Analysis Professional Information Systems Management Data Mining Microsoft Access Statistical Analysis System (SAS) Structured Query Language (SQL) Data Representation Data Analysis Skills Power BI R Programming Language (R) Tableau Python OOP machine learning NLP neural nets scikit-learn NumPy Pandas Keras Time Series Java PLSQL data modelling statistical analysis back-end engineering Amazon AWS FbProphet KNN Decision Tree Random Forest Adaboost Gradient Boosting XGB hot-encoding ROC curve Confusion matrices GridSearchCV Instagram Graph API web scraping Natural Language Process image classification predictive modeling exploratory data analysis Oracle
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