About

Focus Area of Work

  • Collaborate with doctors, epidemiologists, program managers and other stake-holders, analyzing Health Management Information System (HMIS) data to identify trends, patterns, and insights crucial for public health interventions.
  • Play pivotal role in informing evidence-based decision-making, enhancing healthcare strategies, and optimizing resources to improve population health outcomes.
  • Develop end-to-end data systems to support low-resource public health and development sector projects by using Open Source Software and Digital Public Goods.

Work Experience

Skills

  • Advanced Data Analysis
  • Health Informatics
  • Programming Proficiency
  • Database Management
  • Project Management
  • Communication Skills
  • Stakeholder Engagement

Tech Stack

  • Programming – Python, JavaScript, Java, R, SAS, Julia, PHP, C, C++ etc.
  • Markup – HTML, XML, MD, YAML
  • Artificial Intelligence – Unsupervised Learning, ChatBots using JS and Generative AI, Hugging Face Models, Private GPT, Open AI API, Jugalbandi API.
  • OS Platforms – Linux, Windows & Android
  • Server – Ubuntu, Other Linux and Windows OS
    Providers- GCP, AWS, BigRock, NIC MeghRaj
  • DBMS – MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Firebase etc.
  • IDE – VS Code, Net Beans, Geany, SAS Studio, R Studio
  • GIS – PySAL, QGIS, ArcgGIS, Google Earth Engine, Google Earth, Google Maps, Bhuvan, Leaflet, Folium, Geo Pandas, SatScan
  • Open Data Kit – ODK, SurveyCTO, ONA Data, KoBo-ToolBox, XLSForms, PyXForms
  • BI Tools – Metabase, Tableu, Powe BI, Looker
  • JS Data Viz – DC.JS, Google Charts etc.
  • Office Suite – MS Excel & MS Office Apps, Libre Office, Google Workspace

Education


Publications

1. Optimizing Village-Level Targeting of Active Case Detection to Support Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination in India. View
2. Visceral leishmaniasis outbreaks in Bihar: community-level investigations in the context of elimination of kala-azar as a public health problem. View
3. Development and Evaluation of Active Case Detection Methods to Support Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination in India. View
4. Spatial Variation in Delayed Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Bihar, India. View
5. The Impact of Indoor Residual Spraying on Sandfly Abundance and Incidence of Visceral Leishmaniasis in India from 2016 to 2022. View


Projects

Development of Dashboards for Data Synchronization Monitoring System for Tracking AMRIT App Database Health.
Nov 2023 – Present           Associated with Piramal Foundation  

Skills: Python · Data Visualization · SQL · MySQL · Linux
Development of AI Chatbot for Health Information Help Line (HIHL)104.
Jul 2023 – Present             Associated with Piramal Foundation  

Skills: Software Development, JavaScript, Python, DBMS, Gen-AI, Jugalbandi.AI
Development of Web-based Smart AI Chatbot Assistant for Piramal Foundation Jul 2023 – Present                 Associated with Piramal Foundation  

Skills: Open Source Software · Software Development
Data system for Kala Azar Case Detail Surveys
Jun 2020 – Jul 2023              Associated with CARE India

Data system for Kala Azar Case Detail Surveys across total 37 districts of Bihar & Jharkhand. Technologies – ODK, Python and Google Cloud based tools.  

Skills: Python · ODK · Google Colaboratory
Developed software system for implementation of activities under Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) – Infection Transmission Dynamics Study
Aug 2020 – Jul 2023            Associated with CARE India  

Data system designed for conducting house-hold census, comprehensive individual as well as household level surveys in the villages of Bihar, capturing status of blood sample collection of participants along with status of processing of samples at various stages in CARE’s lab and AIIMS Patna lab. Development of web-based satellite maps and dashboards for enabling village analysis of disease hot spots by KA experts  

Skills: Python · QGIS · ODK · Folium · GitHub · Google Colaboratory
VL Control Activities – Implementation of National HMIS for Kala-Azar Elimination Program | Kala Azar Management Information System (KAMIS) Apr 2016 – Jul 2023             Associated with CARE India  

Kala Azar Management Information System (KAMIS) is the Health Management Information System (HMIS) for National Kala Azar Elimination Program (NCVBDC , MOHFW)  

Skills: Software Documentation · Software Project Management · Data Visualization · Java · JavaScript · MySQL · User Experience (UX) · Linux System Administration · OWASP · Software Product Management · User Interface
Data visualization for RAFT software system
Sep 2021 – Apr 2023           Associated with CARE India  

Data visualization for monitoring of progress indicators for neo-natal health program in RAFT software system developed by CARE for Govt. of Bihar  

Skills: Python · Bash · Microsoft Office · Linux · Data Profiling · Data Integration · Data Cleaning · Data Normalization · Data Analysis · MS Excel – Data Models, Power Query, Power Pivots · Interactive Data Visualization
_____________Technical Review – Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 Packt Publishing    

ISBN 9781785283758


Skills: Python, Technical Review, Documentation, Communication

Achievements