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 1 month

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

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

Financial Trader

Samuel And Comp Trading, United Kingdom, London

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

Oracle Developer

Drive Software Solutions, United Kingdom, London

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

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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