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Arya
Kadarkar

Data / AI / Systems

I design and build data and AI systems that solve real business problems at scale.

Blending analytical rigor with engineering precision to turn complexity into leverage across applied AI, analytics, financial modeling, cybersecurity, and business strategy.

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Site Thesis

Applied machine learning, systems thinking, and business analysis translated into precise, business-facing case studies.

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Structure Over Decoration

Current Positioning

MS Information Systems candidate focused on recruiter-ready evidence across analytics, AI, systems, finance, and business decision support.

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Featured Projects

Selected systems work.

Case studies centered on applied AI, analytics, financial modeling, and business-facing technical decision support.

Plate 01

2026-05

AI-Powered Healthcare Insurance Fraud Detection System

AI-assisted fraud scoring and decision-routing platform for healthcare insurance operations.

Built an AI-assisted healthcare insurance fraud detection system that scores claims and providers for fraud risk, routes cases through decision automation, and supports investigators with a business-friendly analytics dashboard.

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System Type

Healthcare AI

Delivery State

Completed / Flagship

Tools

Pythonpandasscikit-learnStreamlitPlotlyjoblib

Concepts

Fraud DetectionDecision SupportResponsible AIHealthcare AI

Proof Point

Streamlit-based fraud scoring dashboard with decision routing, business impact modeling, and responsible AI controls.

Plate 02

2026-05

Residential Home Sales Wizard

AI-powered residential real estate prediction system for sale price and sale timing analysis.

AI-powered residential real estate prediction system for sale price and sale timing analysis using large-scale county-level property data.

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System Type

Applied Analytics

Delivery State

In Progress / Capstone

Tools

PythonPandasScikit-learnFeature EngineeringSystem Design

Concepts

Predictive ModelingReal Estate AnalyticsSale Timing Analysis

Proof Point

200+ property features structured into a dual workflow for sale price and sale timing analysis.

Plate 03

2026-04

Airbnb Perfect Rating Prediction

Classification workflow for predicting perfect guest rating outcomes from listing features.

Machine learning classification project predicting perfect guest rating outcomes using structured and text-based listing features.

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System Type

Machine Learning

Delivery State

Completed / Coursework

Tools

PythonPandasScikit-learnXGBoostTF-IDF

Concepts

ClassificationFeature EngineeringModel Evaluation

Proof Point

~0.815 validation ROC-AUC across structured and text-based listing features.

Plate 04

2026-05

Quantitative Portfolio Optimization and Financial Modeling

Risk-aware portfolio analytics workflow for benchmarking, simulation, and allocation analysis.

Financial analytics project focused on portfolio performance, risk-adjusted returns, simulation, and allocation decisions.

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System Type

Financial Modeling

Delivery State

In Progress / Personal

Tools

PythonExcelNumPyPandasMonte Carlo

Concepts

Portfolio OptimizationSharpe RatioRisk-Adjusted ReturnsBenchmarking

Proof Point

Portfolio analytics workflow covering Sharpe ratio, beta, drawdown, benchmark comparison, and Monte Carlo simulation.

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Experience

Experience across market research, business development, and technical execution.

Experience spanning client research, business development, automation, and structured analytical support across business and technical contexts.

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March 2025 - July 2025

Pune, India

Market Research Intern

Fortune Business Insights

Supported market research and consulting work across ICT and semiconductor sectors by translating industry information into structured client-facing insights.

Analyzed market trends, revenue drivers, competitive positioning, and industry developments for client-facing research deliverables.
Authored 50+ report descriptions and supported senior analysts and business development teams.
Contributed research to global consulting projects, including work related to Asia's video conferencing market.

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May 2024 - December 2024

Hybrid

Business Development Intern

EcoStart Ventures

Worked on sustainability-focused business development, customer profiling, supplier matching, and early AI-assisted recommendation workflows.

Analyzed company documents, sustainability goals, and operational priorities to build detailed customer profiles.
Mapped customer needs to relevant supplier solutions and contributed training data for an AI-based recommendation model.
Tested the sustainability platform and identified 50+ UX and functionality issues.

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August 2024 - December 2024

State College, PA

Research Assistant

Penn State Independent Study with Prof. Mark Gough

Worked on a Penn State independent study with Prof. Mark Gough, building automation pipelines to collect and structure legal contact data at scale.

Built automated web scraping pipelines in Python and JavaScript to collect structured contact data for 1,500+ employment lawyers.
Identified target data sources, extracted relevant fields, and cleaned results across multiple legal directories.
Improved the efficiency of a repetitive data collection process through structured automation.

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System Archive

Coursework organized as foundation first, specialization second.

Penn State provides the technical base in algorithms, systems, databases, theory, math, and statistics. UMD adds graduate specialization in AI, analytics, cloud, digital transformation, finance information systems, and business process analysis.

Penn State B.S. Computer Science

Undergraduate foundation in algorithms, systems, databases, theory of computation, math, and statistics.

Public-facing archive only. Grades, GPA, student ID, repeated-course history, and audit status are intentionally excluded.

Computer Science Foundations

Programming, algorithms, systems, databases, theory, and software construction.

Data, AI & Analytics

Data mining, statistics, probability, numerical methods, and analytical modeling.

Systems & Architecture

Operating systems, computer organization, digital design, and low-level systems thinking.

Mathematics & Quantitative Foundations

Calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics, and vector analysis.

Business, Finance & Management

Business fundamentals connecting technical systems to markets, operations, finance, and organizations.

UMD M.S. Information Systems

Graduate specialization in AI, analytics, cloud, digital transformation, finance information systems, and business process analysis.

Data, AI & Analytics

Data Systems & Cloud

Business Technology Strategy

Process, Projects & Execution

Finance & Visualization

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Active Workbench

Current simulations, builds, and learning systems in motion.

A live view of active professional simulations, portfolio builds, and learning projects. These are ongoing work items, not employment entries.

Forage Virtual Job Simulation

British Airways Data Science Job Simulation

Primary active simulation focused on turning business rules into a reusable data decisioning output for airport operations.

Progress10%

Platform

Forage

Status

Active

Current Task

Task One — Modeling lounge eligibility at Heathrow Terminal 3

Current Position

Task 1 of 2

Focus Areas

Data ScienceLookup LogicBusiness RulesWritten Justification

Started

2026-06

Target Finish

2026-06

Next Output

Reusable lounge eligibility lookup table plus written justification.

Open Program

Active

BCG X Data Science Job Simulation

Forage / Forage Virtual Job Simulation

Final recommendation framing and model interpretation

Progress 68%

Active

Healthcare Fraud Platform Iteration

Independent Build / Portfolio Build

Refining business impact assumptions and dashboard walkthroughs

Progress 57%

The workbench tracks what is actively being built, simulated, or refined right now, with progress expressed publicly without overstating any item as formal employment.

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Contact

Available for internships and systems work that values rigor over noise.

Open to summer 2026 opportunities in analytics, AI, business systems, and technical strategy.

Reach out for internship opportunities, project conversations, or a deeper walkthrough of the portfolio case studies and coursework archive.

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