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Atharva Deshpande

Student at University of East London

United Kingdom

2+ years of work experience

Sep 20242 ySep 2026

London

Stayed in the UK on the Graduate visa, applying for data roles while working part-time in retail; relocated to India in 2026. Maintained and reconciled daily stock and sales records, spotting discrepancies and correcting them to keep inventory data accurate. Used Excel to track sales and stock trends, and flagged fast-moving and slow-moving items to management to support ordering decisions. Built and managed the staff rota, balancing availability against busy periods. Handled data queries from colleagues and management, pulling figures and explaining them clearly to non-technical staff. Kept skills current through self-directed projects in Python, SQL and Power BI.
Quiesta Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Feb 202211 moJan 2023

Pune

Cleaned and validated 10,000+ user records in Python (duplicates, missing values, inconsistent formats) to make them model-ready. Built an end-to-end fake-news classifier on 10,000 articles (NLP preprocessing, TF-IDF); benchmarked Logistic Regression and Linear SVM on a held-out test set. Improved on the Naive Bayes baseline by moving to a fine-tuned BERT-based classifier. Deployed as a Streamlit app with live predictions; presented results and limitations to the team in non-technical language.

Atharva’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
gemini
gemini

Education

University of East London

Master of Science - MS, Data Science

University of East London

20231 yr2024

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Headline

Student at University of East London

Location

United Kingdom

AI stack

claude code

gemini

Work experience

Retail associate at Lexington, Sep 2024 - Sep 2026 · 2 y, London, Stayed in the UK on the Graduate visa, applying for data roles while working part-time in retail; relocated to India in 2026. Maintained and reconciled daily stock and sales records, spotting discrepancies and correcting them to keep inventory data accurate. Used Excel to track sales and stock trends, and flagged fast-moving and slow-moving items to management to support ordering decisions. Built and managed the staff rota, balancing availability against busy periods. Handled data queries from colleagues and management, pulling figures and explaining them clearly to non-technical staff. Kept skills current through self-directed projects in Python, SQL and Power BI.

Data scientist intern at Quiesta Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 11 mo, Pune, Cleaned and validated 10,000+ user records in Python (duplicates, missing values, inconsistent formats) to make them model-ready. Built an end-to-end fake-news classifier on 10,000 articles (NLP preprocessing, TF-IDF); benchmarked Logistic Regression and Linear SVM on a held-out test set. Improved on the Naive Bayes baseline by moving to a fine-tuned BERT-based classifier. Deployed as a Streamlit app with live predictions; presented results and limitations to the team in non-technical language.

Education

Master of Science - MS, Data Science, University of East London

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