Aditya Kalia

iPhone Quality Engineer Intern

Apple•  September 2018 - December 2018

• Led cross functional engineering teams to gather technical findings and corrective actions on returned units • Created visualizations in Tableau to monitor various regressions and trends, allowing proactive analytics on KPI • Reduced workload by 30% by creating a Python tool that leveraged internal API to automatically report on metrics • Managed 50+ international contractors and coordinated testing of components on the iPhone to triage the root cause

Operations Analyst

Ritual•  January 2018 - April 2018

• Analyzed promotional sales data and measured the growth of users / orders on a per merchant and city scale • Worked with Apple on an incentive campaign to boost user transactions via Apple Pay, increasing engagement by 3X • Created complex SQL queries to power reports highlighting merchant’s performance in-app with KPI insights • Developed a logistic regression model to predict if an item will be bought alone or grouped with multiple items • Conducted prescriptive analytics to determine what factors affect customer basket size in order to increase it

Data & Technology Analyst

LoyaltyOne•  May 2017 - August 2017

• Led descriptive analytics on migration of client transaction data from on-premise DB to AWS cloud DB • Automated data validation analysis using Python to verify all data going into the database; flagging any data violations • Created ETL (extract, transform, load) pipeline for incoming data from clients to store in AWS

Project Control Officer

Finastra•  September 2016 - December 2016

• Generated burn-up and velocity charts to track and monitor team’s progress to achieve set sprint goals • Mapped dependencies with third party vendors to identify bottlenecks and improve timelines • Co-created Agile software development life cycle documentation to improve development workflow by 2 weeks • Led daily scrum meetings with software teams to obtain statuses and resolve issues impacting the team

INVENTORY & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ASSISTANT

TSC Stores•  January 2016 - April 2016

• Coordinated successful integration of new software into existing data warehouse management system • Automated reporting on safety, quality, delivery, and cost using Google Apps Script to increase visibility to stakeholders • Oversaw development of third party software and recommended revisions to ensure successful integration

University of Waterloo, Waterloo

Management Engineering, BE•  September 2014 - April 2019

Waterloo's innovative management engineering program provides undergraduate students with an engineering education required to understand, design, implement, and manage complex management systems upon which organisations depend. Management engineers use industrial engineering principles, math, and computer programming to optimise and improve processes in any organisation. By graduation, students have gained a strong background in data analytics, information systems, operations and supply chain management, and organisational behaviour that can take them just about anywhere, from software to finance, supply chain, logistics, health care, and more.