Growing up I was a typical student in school. When I got my Math test results back, my mom would say something like "Chirag, Math is black and white. You should be able to score 100%". For the longest time, I didnt believe her. I would argue and give unconvincing excuses about my non-100% mediocre perfromance. Then some thing happened in the 8th grade. I think it was geometry that did it. I got interested in math and performed better at it. I got so good that eventually I excelled at every math course in high-school and in college (Calculus, Statistics, Differential Equations, etc.).
During my time in college, I took a course called Computer Organization. It was about microprocessors. Microprocessor interested me because of its complexity and it involved logic and numbers. After college, I worked at my then dream company Sun Microsystems. It was a fun job, generating and analyzing huge amounts of data for microprocessor development.
After riding the boom and bust of the tech bubble, I wanted to understand the financial markets. To fulfill that curiosity, I pursued a MBA with focus in finance and economics. Now as a hobby, I analyze economic data. I have my own financial models to pick and monitor stocks and mutual funds. However, with so much financial and economic information at hand, it is difficult to process such abundance of data. Similarly, businesses have a problem on a much larger scale, lot of data but not enough resources to do the analysis. My goal is to help businesses gain insightful information by analyzing and visualizing data.
Currently, I am working at Accenture on the Reporting and Analytics team creating reports to help clients make better business decisions.
