Udit Kalra

Business Analyst - Underwriting Retail Automation

Thane, IndiaInsurance
3roles
41skills
1education
1credentials

About

Results-driven Business Analyst with experience in cross-functional underwriting retail automation, requirements analysis, premium calculator automation, UAT, deployment, and stakeholder collaboration. Also experienced in data science projects and foundational software engineering with Golang and Terraform.

Experience

Business Analyst - Underwriting Retail Automation

Zurich Kotak General Insurance

December 2024 - Present · Mumbai

Designed and automated premium calculators across multiple retail lines of business; developed Excel-based underwriting automation tools; partnered with underwriters and stakeholders to analyze requirements and ensure regulatory compliance; contributed to OEM automation; led process automation initiatives; conducted UAT, validation, deployment, and post-deployment support; used JIRA to track and resolve bugs.

Software Engineering Intern

Takeoff Technologies Inc

May 2023 - July 2023 · Pune

Built REST APIs using Golang; used Google Cloud Platform services including Cloud Functions 2nd-gen, Cloud Firestore, and Cloud Storage; implemented Terraform for infrastructure provisioning; completed a company-specific API suite capstone project.

Artificial Intelligence Intern

NeoDocto Inc

September 2021 - January 2022 · Remote

Developed a ManyChat bot; created a video testimonial; led a team of six interns and helped them achieve all assigned tasks; applied digital marketing techniques.

Education

SVKM NMIMS MPSTME

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Engineering and Business Systems

August 2024

Academic Score: 3.43/4 CGPA. Publication: “Efficacy Check of Haralick and Symmetry Features for Skin Lesions Classification,” International Journal of Computer Applications 185(3):1-8, April 2023.

Skills

CC++PythonRSQLGitJavaGoTerraformVBAGoogle ColabCode BlocksXcodeRStudioVS CodeSublimeGitHubMySQL WorkbenchPower BIFigmaGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Cloud StorageCloud FirestoreMicrosoft ExcelJIRAPandasMatplotlibscikit-learnNumPySeabornXGBoostStreamlitPyCryptoGolangREST APIsCloud Functions 2nd-genCloud StorageUAT testingRequirements engineeringProcess automationData analysis

Projects

House Price Prediction Model

Applied machine learning models to the Chennai House Price dataset using multiple data scaling approaches and evaluated eight models with R2 scores. Used Google Colab, Pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, and NumPy.

Built a Data Science Web App using Streamlit and Python

Built a Streamlit app visualizing injury hotspots, collision timing, and the top five dangerous NYC streets for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. Used Python and VS Code.

Bank Management System

Developed a Java bank management system with functionality for adding customers, changing customer names, checking account balances, and summarizing accounts. Used Java and VS Code.

Statistical Data Visualization on Breast Cancer Diagnosis CSV

Conducted exploratory data analysis using Pandas and Seaborn; created multiple plots and a heatmap; performed feature selection with recursive feature elimination and cross-validation and applied PCA. Used Python, NumPy, Pandas, Google Colab, Seaborn, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, and XGBoost.

EDA on Breast Cancer Diagnosis CSV

Performed exploratory data analysis using Pandas and Seaborn, created multiple visualizations and heatmaps, and analyzed tumor types, correlations, and variance.

Demonstration of Real-Time Operating System using 4 Algorithms

Implemented a menu-driven mini project demonstrating Earliest Deadline First, C-SCAN, Half-Fit, and Blowfish algorithms for process, I/O, memory, and file management. Used Google Colab, Python, and PyCrypto.

Volunteering

Member (Community Service)

Rotaract Club of Bombay Airport

December 2021 - November 2024