I am a first generation student present in the tech world only because of the hard work of my mother.
I am an undergraduate(soon to be a computer science engineer). I started my data science and machine learning journey in 2019. I chose this field not because of the hype or popularity but because of my passion to solve real world problems. I believe in the wonders artificial intelligence is capable of.
Till now I have worked on very diverse set of projects ranging from social good, open source to industrial.
It all started as a Junior Machine Learning Engineer at Omdena. My most proud project with them was #sexedPL aimed to analyze sex education and reduce teenage crimes and suicides. Soon I was promoted to Machine Learning Engineer for the next challenge ‘AIForEnergy’ where I used data science for sustainable development. I used my skills for social good and learned a lot.
After some time I decided to dive in the business side of data science and joined Mylo as a data scientist. My work directly impacted customer interaction. The retention rate was increased upto 5% and community feed started having high interactions.
I spent my summer with Major League Hacking in their fellowship program where I contributed to major open source infrastructures including Scikit-Learn, Keras and BentoML for 12 weeks. The code I contributed has been dowloaded for more than 10 million times till now.
Currently I am leading the pod of explorer fellows at MLH. I love code debugging, pair programming and brainstorming with them each day. Under my mentorship, fellows have built more than 15 projects using technologies rangning from Machine Learning to Game Development.
My ‘Notebooks Year in Review’ report with Deepnote is out now. Check out what I found after analyzing 10,000 repositories on Github.
I am a huge supporter of diversity and I work for upliftment of women in tech as a lead for Women Who Code Python Track.
‘You become what you believe. -Oprah Winfrey’
Some of my most recent accomplishments are:
Nothing happens over night. It takes years of hard+smart work to achieve your dreams. Oftenly its natural to get overwhelmed and drop in between but thats when the crowd is differentiated from the achiever.
Want to know more about me?Along with many amazing things, you can find me doing data science, NLP projects, contributing to open source, speaking at webinars, advocating for diversity and maintaining this site.
I am always looking for meaningful collaborations. If there’s anything I can help with, get in touch!
"I worked with Yashika at the beginning of her journey in applied NLP at Omdena and I was amazed by her curiosity and ability to learn and apply methods quickly. She did that without failing to seek to understand the maximum of aspects, in particular by writing and seizing all the opportunities to transmit the knowledge which she had just acquired. Her obvious interest in NLP research means that she already knows and tried to apply a lot of state of the art methods, but I also noticed that she has very good qualities in programming and best practices of software engineering. I have no doubt that she has improved further since then and I look forward to seeing the interesting things which she will work on in the future. I recommend her without hesitation for her open-mindedness, her curiosity and her incredible tenacity !"
Julia Wabant Data Scientist at Lextenso
"Yashika worked under my guidance for the Machine Learning and Deep Learning course. She used to ask insightful questions related to topics that were not even covered in the course. This shows that she was spending extra hours, studying and researching on her own, outside of the class. Yashika built several complex models as part of the course and also helped her peers when they got stuck. Such candidates are a dream to work with, for anyone in the team."
Mudit Goel Ex-LinkedIn, Owner Coding Elements