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Valeria Caras

Valeria Caras

Helsinki,18

Summary

Motivated professional with desire to bring value through impactful work.

I have research oriented approach to job tasks and thrive on digging into data to answer the questions and facilitate data workflows. Enjoy team work and take every opportunity to learn from colleagues and be helpful myself. Work effectively independently and quickly learn new skills.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Analytics Engineer

Posti Group Oyj
Helsinki
03.2023 - Current
  • Build ETL jobs for extracting data from datalake and servers, developed workflows in databricks Azure ans AWS
  • Succesfully built retail data model from scratch to end for parcels delivery service points and lockers, which facilitated retail analytics and ML models

Data Scientist

CSC IT Center for Science
Espoo
03.2022 - 03.2023
  • Developing and advancing an internal analytical tool in R Shiny to increase impact from the users' experience data, conducting data analysis, developing data workflows using Apache Airflow
  • Conducted analysis of academic research publications in Finland for Academy of Finland using tree-based ML methods which was successfully published

Trainee User and Customer Impact Development

CSC IT Center for Science
Espoo
10.2021 - 02.2022
  • Assisted in UX research analytics, surveys and reporting

Research Assistant Intern

University of Helsinki
Helsinki
02.2021 - 08.2021
  • Assisting in workshop and seminars planning, data collection and research, publishing of materials for the blog and visualization of results

Research Assistant Intern

The Quality of Government Institute
Gothenburg
03.2021 - 06.2021
  • Data scraping through R, reporting, analyzing the survey data, and producing graphs on different indicators. Also assisted in various tasks on article writing, data collection, and coding

Education

Master of Social Science - European and Nordic Studies

University of Helsinki
Helsinki
05-2021

Bachelor of Political Science -

Higher School of Economics
St. Petersburg
06-2019

Upper Secondary School -

Liceum
Chisinau
06-2015

Skills

  • Programming in Python, R, SQL
  • Data analysis and machine learning
  • Cloud analytics (Azure, AWS) and databases
  • ETL, ELT in databricks, Apache Airflow, GitHub
  • Research skills
  • Visualisations and dashboard building in R, Power BI, Python

Languages

Romanian
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Russian
Proficient (C2)
C2
Finnish
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Certification

  • Datacamp certificates: Data Scientist with Python\R, Data Analysts with Python\R
  • Azure Databricks & Spark for Data Engineers (Udemy)
  • Deep Learning with Python (FITech Network University)

Affiliations

  • running, body combat, learning languages, painting

Timeline

Analytics Engineer

Posti Group Oyj
03.2023 - Current

Data Scientist

CSC IT Center for Science
03.2022 - 03.2023

Trainee User and Customer Impact Development

CSC IT Center for Science
10.2021 - 02.2022

Research Assistant Intern

The Quality of Government Institute
03.2021 - 06.2021

Research Assistant Intern

University of Helsinki
02.2021 - 08.2021

Master of Social Science - European and Nordic Studies

University of Helsinki

Bachelor of Political Science -

Higher School of Economics

Upper Secondary School -

Liceum
  • Datacamp certificates: Data Scientist with Python\R, Data Analysts with Python\R
  • Azure Databricks & Spark for Data Engineers (Udemy)
  • Deep Learning with Python (FITech Network University)
Valeria Caras