Data scientist building GenAI systems and automated pipelines.
I'm Darren — currently a Data Engineer at YPI, designing RAG frameworks,
LLM-powered data tools, and automated pipelines that cut manual work
by up to 40%. MPS in Data Science (UMBC, Dec 2025).
Working AI-governance platform for firms running AI on trading desks — four modules covering explainability, security, incident response, and vendor risk, grounded in real regulatory research (FINRA, SEC, EU AI Act).
Trading-signal audit trail logging plain-English LLM rationales for every BUY/SELL/HOLD
Red-team suite firing 10 OWASP-style prompt-injection payloads at a simulated trading copilot
Incident tabletop simulator modeled on real cases (Knight Capital, deepfake market panics)
LLM-powered pipeline that generates synthetic log-return time series for financial risk simulations — filling the data gap for rare and extreme market scenarios.
Prompt-driven generation workflows for financial time-series data
Realism enforced with KS tests, distribution checks, and histograms
Automated quality-filtering loop that regenerates failed samples
Capstone testing whether immigration drives inflation across Canadian provinces (2010–2025), using a provincial quarterly panel built from Statistics Canada data.
Merged CPI, population, immigration, housing, and policy-rate data into one panel dataset
Compared linear, regularized, tree-based, and time-series models (ARIMAX, VARMAX)
Found interest rates — not immigration — to be the dominant inflation driver (r ≈ 0.7)
Automation-first work across finance, analytics, and operations.
Data Engineer — YPI
Jan 2026 – Present
Building a partner portal platform for nonprofit volunteer organizing — role management, event calendar with ICS sync, and a volunteer database with scoring analytics.
Implemented OCR-based data intake (Tesseract.js) converting photographed sign-up sheets into structured volunteer records.
Designing event reporting workflows tracking attendance, signups, and engagement against goals, with CSV and photo-scan import.
Graduate Assistant — Division of Professional Studies, UMBC
Baltimore, MD · Jul 2024 – Dec 2025
Automated payroll and financial reporting with Python + Excel, cutting manual effort by 40% while improving accuracy.
Restructured document and data organization across Google Workspace and Adobe, improving audit readiness and retrieval speed.
Coordinated payroll and deposit workflows for a 6-person team, reducing processing time by 30%.
Data Analyst Intern — BizViz Technologies
Bengaluru, India · Jan 2023 – Apr 2023
Analyzed large-scale energy consumption datasets with Python + SQL to surface trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
Built dashboards and reports visualizing energy usage patterns for enterprise clients.
Validated SQL queries and Python scripts to ensure data quality and platform reliability.
IT Intern — SEG Automotive
Bengaluru, India · Aug 2022 – Sep 2022
Built Power BI dashboards for near real-time production-line KPI monitoring.
Automated data extraction and transformation from manufacturing systems, cutting reporting turnaround.
Ran exploratory analysis to identify process bottlenecks, contributing to measurable productivity gains.
04 · EDUCATION
Education
MPS, Data Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD · Dec 2025
B.E., Computer Engineering
Presidency University Bengaluru, India · Jun 2023
Certifications
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Claude 101
Anthropic
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AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Anthropic
05 · CONTACT
Let's talk
Open to full-time and internship opportunities in Data Science, AI Systems, and Analytics.
Based in Baltimore, open to relocation.