I'm a mechanical engineering graduate and recently completed the Big Data Analytics and Optimization certification course from INSOFE which is Certified for the quality of content, pedagogy, and assessment by Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Skills
Statistical analysis
Data exploration, visualization, regression, time series, bayesian methods
Big data engineering
Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Pig, Spark, Sqoop
Machine learning
Trees, Neural nets, deep learning, rule induction, ensembles, collaborative filtering, SVM, clustering
Spectral methods, dimensionality reduction, PCA-SVD, matrix factorization
Text mining and NLP
Pre-processing, sentiment, entity extraction
Optimization
Linear, quadratic programming, evolutionary methods