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Open to Work — Product Management · Data & BI · Solutions Engineering · Seattle, WA · OPT Authorized
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Uva Venkata Kaushik Bolla is a cross-functional technologist with 3+ years at Cognizant inside John Hancock's insurance platforms, and a Master's in Information Management (Data Science) from the University of Washington. He builds data systems that scale, stress-tests applications before bad actors do, and obsesses over the why before the how when shaping products.
LinkedIn · GitHub · Tableau · Blog · Resume · [email protected]
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HarvestIQ — Yield Intelligence Platform
UW Databricks Hackathon 2026 · Data Science
End-to-end agricultural forecasting platform predicting corn & soybean yields 60–90 days in advance at US county level. Processed 83M+ NOAA weather observations across 44,728 stations using PySpark, KDTree spatial joins, and XGBoost quantile regression.
| Metric | Result |
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| Corn R² | 0.67 |
| Soybean R² | 0.62 |
| Weather stations | 44,728 |
| Training examples | 108,573 |
Databricks PySpark XGBoost MLflow Unity Catalog Plotly
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DoorDash Table Mode — Product Spec
Product Strategy & Design
Designed a social dining rewards feature using AI + Geofencing. A table of friends earns individual credits from one shared receipt — turning a single transaction into a multi-user retention engine. Covers full UX flow, trust architecture, and OCR receipt validation spec.
| Step | Action |
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| 1 | Host geofence check-in |
| 2 | Dynamic QR (2-min expiry) |
| 3 | OCR receipt validation |
| 4 | Instant wallet distribution |
Product Strategy Geofencing OCR UX Design Figma
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Languages
Python · SQL · Java · Bash
Data Engineering & Cloud
PySpark · Snowflake · Databricks · Delta Tables · ELT Pipelines · Star Schema · Unity Catalog · MLflow · AWS · Azure
Analytics & BI
Power BI · DAX · Tableau · PostHog · Stripe · Excel
Product & Design
Figma · Product Discovery · User Research · GTM Strategy · Roadmapping · Rapid Prototyping
ML & AI
XGBoost · Quantile Regression · scikit-learn · Feature Engineering · MLflow Tracking
Cybersecurity
Metasploit · OWASP ZAP · Burp Suite · Penetration Testing · GRC · SOX Compliance
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Programmer Analyst → Hybrid Product-Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions · Bangalore, India · Aug 2020 – Jun 2023
Embedded inside John Hancock Financial Services across a three-party vendor ecosystem, working on life insurance platforms — VPAS (policy admin), Velogica (automated underwriting), and iPipeline iGO E-App (digital applications).
Python SQL Power BI Selenium TestNG ACORD TXLife XML SOX
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Founder & Product Lead
Cisco ThingQbator Incubator · Bangalore, India · Aug 2020 – Jul 2021
Selected for Cisco's startup incubator. Validated product-market fit for a construction tech platform through 30+ field interviews, and led development from ideation to prototype.
Figma Product Discovery User Research Rapid Prototyping
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