Business & Data Analyst with a software engineering background, building end-to-end analytics systems that turn complex data into actionable insights. Experienced in Python, SQL, and interactive dashboards, with recent work spanning AI-assisted workflows, ETL pipelines, and decision-support analytics for career advising and labor-market intelligence.
Dinara Zhorabek
Summary
Education
Boston University Metropolitan College
Boston, MA
Master of Science, Applied Business Analytics
May 2026
Cumulative GPA: 3.81/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Data Mining, Data Science, Marketing Analytics, Operations Management, Enterprise Risk Analytics, Cloud Analytics
Relevant Coursework: Data Mining, Data Science, Marketing Analytics, Operations Management, Enterprise Risk Analytics, Cloud Analytics
Kazakh-British Technical University
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Bachelor of Science, Information and Communication Technology
June 2023
Major in Information Systems
Cumulative GPA: 3.57/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Calculus, Discrete Structures, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Principles, Enterprise Architecture
Cumulative GPA: 3.57/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Calculus, Discrete Structures, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Principles, Enterprise Architecture
Work Experience
Boston University
Boston, MA
Graduate Research Assistant
Oct 2024 - Present
- Created a Django web platform that includes interactive labor-market dashboards and a user questionnaire, supported by automated ETL pipelines and Plotly analytics.
- Support development of AI-driven workflows, including prompt engineering, scripting, and test-case design for intelligent agent behaviors. Perform quality assurance testing of AI outputs across varied student profiles and career objectives.
- Assist with pilot program operations, including creation of onboarding materials, collection of user feedback, and benchmarking against traditional advising methods.
The Build Fellowship
New York City, NY
Data Science Build Student Consultant
July 2025 - Sep 2025
- Cleaned and validated extensive healthcare datasets to enhance data quality for modeling.
- Conducted exploratory data analysis (EDA) to summarize and visualize patient trends using Excel tools.
- Identified significant patterns supporting evidence-based insights and early-stage recommendations through statistical methods like t-tests, ANOVA, and regression.
VTB Bank Kazakhstan
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
- Directed the end-to-end development of enterprise-grade financial software, managing project scoping, system design, data architecture, backend logic, API integrations, and CI/CD deployment. This approach accelerated delivery timelines and enhanced platform reliability across engineering teams.
- Engineered high-throughput, no-code enterprise applications utilizing Java and PostgreSQL, optimizing modularity and service scalability. This effort resulted in a 30% reduction in feature rollout time and decreased backend load through efficient data flow design.
- Designed and deployed a credit scoring engine from the ground up, establishing secure RESTful POST integrations with external systems, introducing real-time performance monitoring, and delivering a streamlined user experience through Oracle APEX.
- Architected core banking UI components using React and Node.js, which improved component rendering and state management, enhanced page responsiveness, and reduced transaction latency by 4%.
- Optimized large-scale relational queries and PL/SQL procedures with DBMS Profiler and Query Analyzer, restructuring slow execution paths and achieving an average reduction of 50% in critical query runtimes.
Projects
- Built an end-to-end labor-market analytics web platform (Django) with relational modeling and interactive dashboards.
- Published a visualization methodology paper formalizing task-aligned design principles for decision support.
- Developed a quantitative trading strategy integrating sentiment analysis, volatility signals, and regime detection for TSLA vs. XLY.
- Built a full research pipeline with feature engineering, model backtesting, rolling-window optimization, and performance evaluation.
- Implemented in Python with Plotly dashboards to visualize signals, returns, and risk metrics.
- Conducted an exploratory data analysis of Airbnb listings in Copenhagen to uncover pricing drivers, host behavior patterns, and neighborhood trends.
- Built interactive visualizations to analyze availability, review scores, and room-type impacts on price.
- Applied clustering and feature analysis to identify distinct market segments and inform data-driven pricing insights.
- Integrated Lightcast job-posting data with FRED macroeconomic indicators to analyze 2024 U.S. labor-market trends.
- Applied machine learning, NLP, and statistical modeling to evaluate hiring patterns, skill demand, gender disparities, and regional wage dynamics.
- Published findings in an interactive Quarto website featuring reproducible analytics and dynamic visualizations.
- Processed and engineered photometric and astrometric features from ~100K Hipparcos stars for multi-class stellar variability classification.
- Built and compared kNN, Logistic Regression, SVM, and Random Forest models; Gaussian SVM achieved 71% test accuracy.
- Analyzed class imbalance and feature overlap to assess model limitations in astronomical prediction.
Skills
Programming & ML: Python · NumPy · Pandas · Scikit-Learn · PySpark · TensorFlow · Transformers · LangChain
Data Engineering: SQL · PostgreSQL · Snowflake · MongoDB · ETL Pipelines · Data Modeling · API Integration
Cloud & Deployment: AWS EC2 · Azure ML · Docker · Git · REST APIs
Visualization & Analytics: Plotly · Streamlit · Tableau · Power BI · Matplotlib · A/B Testing
Articles
Zhorabek, D. (2026). Compass Labor Analytics: Visualization Architecture for Career Planning.
Third International Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Technology (SET-III).
Additional
Awards: Presidential “Bolashak” Scholarship (Kazakhstan) · BU MET Hackathon Winner (2025)
Certifications & Training: Data Analyst (DataCamp) · Back End Development and APIs (freeCodeCamp)