Open to roles · May 2026

I turn messy data into decisions that actually matter.

Business Analyst & Consultant. MS Business Analytics @ UMass Amherst (GPA 3.9). 3 years delivering data-driven decisions for Fortune 500 clients at Cognizant.

See My Work
3.9
GPA · UMass
3
Years Enterprise
F500
Clients Served
5
Projects
Nishant Chaudhari

The analyst who asks why
before asking how.

I'm a Business Analyst and aspiring Consultant who believes the hardest part of any project isn't the analysis — it's figuring out what question you're actually trying to answer.

At Cognizant, I worked at the intersection of data, operations, and stakeholder communication for one of the world's largest insurance companies. Impact doesn't come from dashboards alone — it comes from the clarity you bring to a room full of decision-makers.

Now completing my MS in Business Analytics at UMass Amherst's Isenberg School, where I've deepened my skills in machine learning, financial modeling, and strategic analysis — building the toolkit that modern BA and consulting roles demand.

Actively targeting BA and Consulting roles where ambiguous problems need sharp, structured thinking.

Problem Framing

I define the right problem before chasing solutions — the most underrated consulting skill.

Data-Driven Analysis

SQL, Python, Tableau — from raw data to insight without hand-waving.

Executive Communication

I translate technical findings into boardroom-ready narratives for non-technical audiences.

Cross-Functional Delivery

3 years coordinating across engineering, ops, and business teams in enterprise environments.

Five real problems.
What the data revealed.

Finance · ML
View on GitHub

Credit Card Default Predictor

Out of 30,000 cardholders, which ones will stop repaying next month? Banks write off billions annually to defaults they saw coming — but acted on too late. I built a classification model to flag high-risk customers before they default, giving credit teams a data-backed early warning system.

Logistic Regression & Random Forest — AUC 0.772, 57% intervention precision on flagged customers
PythonScikit-learnLogistic RegressionRandom ForestEDA
Market Research · NLP View on GitHub

Rhode Island Airbnb — Pricing & Sentiment Analysis

Across 150,000+ guest reviews, are Airbnb hosts in Rhode Island pricing their listings based on what guests actually experience — or just what they wish they were worth? I used VADER sentiment analysis to score review tone by listing, then mapped those scores against pricing tiers to surface where hosts are overcharging relative to guest satisfaction.

Identified pricing mismatch patterns across segments — Random Forest MAE 0.29 on review score prediction
PythonVADER NLPRandom ForestTableau
Fintech Strategy View on GitHub

Block, Inc. (SQ) — Fintech Strategy & Regulatory Risk Analysis

Block Inc. runs two very different bets simultaneously — a consumer payments app (Cash App) and a Bitcoin treasury strategy. Does combining fintech scale with crypto exposure make Block stronger or more fragile? I analysed ~10,000 Google Play reviews with VADER, benchmarked Block's revenue streams against competitors, and assessed the $255M regulatory penalty impact on long-term positioning.

Cash App sentiment 72.65% positive — board-ready strategic recommendations on risk concentration
VADER NLPCompetitive AnalysisExcelPower BI
Healthcare · Deep Learning View on GitHub

Brain Tumor Detection — MRI Classification with CNN

Radiologists miss roughly 4% of brain tumors on first read — can a model trained on labeled MRI scans catch what a tired human eye misses? I built a Convolutional Neural Network classifier to distinguish tumor-positive from tumor-negative MRI images, focusing on minimising false negatives where the cost of error is highest.

High classification accuracy on holdout test set with strong sensitivity on tumor-positive cases
PythonTensorFlowCNNComputer Vision
Finance · Forecasting View on GitHub

Gold Price Prediction — Macroeconomic Signal Modelling

Gold moves on fear, inflation, and dollar strength — but which macroeconomic signals actually predict its price, and how far ahead can you see? I tested whether a combination of treasury yields, USD index, oil prices, and market volatility could reliably forecast short-term gold price direction using regression and time-series models.

Reliable short-term price movement forecasting with interpretable feature importance
PythonTime SeriesScikit-learnMacro Indicators

Enterprise delivery
at real scale.

Cognizant — Analyst
Cognizant — Intern
Research + Mentorship
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant · Client: Chubb Inc. (Fortune 500 Insurance)
Sep 2022 – Nov 2024
Insurance Operations · IBM BAW/BPM · Production Support · Fortune 500 Delivery
40%
Workflow Speed ↑
25%
Query Speed ↑
30%
Downtime ↓
15%
Recon Errors ↓
  • Mapped end-to-end claims and policy lifecycle processes, identifying bottlenecks that drove a 40% reduction in workflow processing time
  • Optimised SQL schemas for financial reporting — delivering 25% faster queries and 15% fewer reconciliation errors across insurance operations
  • One of few analysts with privileged DB access on live production systems serving Chubb — trusted for high-stakes financial data operations
  • Led cross-functional incident resolution across middleware, database, and application teams with strict SLA adherence under pressure
  • Redesigned monitoring workflows reducing system downtime by 30%, validating solutions against business requirements across dev and production
Programmer Analyst Intern
Cognizant · Financial Services
Mar 2022 – Aug 2022
Financial Services · SQL Reporting · Agile Delivery · Performance-Evaluated Program
  • Improved data accessibility by 20% through SQL reporting initiatives — strong enough to earn a full-time conversion offer
  • Developed process documentation and workflow models for financial services projects in a rigorous, performance-evaluated environment
  • Accelerated team delivery by 15% through proactive Agile collaboration across cross-functional engineering teams
Research Author + AI Mentor
IEEE · Springer · Volunteer Program
2021 – 2024
Peer-reviewed Research · ML Applications · AI Literacy · Community Impact
  • Published at the IEEE International Conference on AI-driven optimisation and ML applications to real-world datasets IEEE 2021 ↗
  • Contributed a chapter to a Springer publication on applied analytics and data-driven decision frameworks Springer 2024 ↗
  • Volunteered as an AI Mentor — simplified complex ML concepts for non-technical audiences, practising the communication skill consulting demands most

What I bring
to the table.

Analytics & Programming
SQLAdvanced
Python (Pandas, NumPy, Sklearn)Proficient
Excel / Power QueryAdvanced
StreamlitWorking
Visualisation & BI
TableauProficient
Power BIProficient
Data StorytellingStrong
Machine Learning & Stats
Classification ModelsProficient
NLP / Sentiment AnalysisWorking
Statistical AnalysisStrong
Business & Consulting
Requirements GatheringStrong
Stakeholder CommunicationStrong
Process Mapping / BPMProficient
Strategic AnalysisDeveloping

Where I learned
to think analytically.

MS Business Analytics
Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst
Jan 2025 – May 2026
⭐ GPA 3.9 / 4.0
B.Tech Electrical Engineering
MIT – World Peace University (MIT-WPU), Pune
2018 – 2022
⭐ GPA 9.3 / 10

Got a problem
worth solving?

Looking for BA and Consulting roles from May 2026. If you have a complex problem and need structured thinking — let's talk.