Credit Risk Modeling for Millions
2018.
Technologies: Python, Pandas, scikit-learn, Azure Databricks, HDFS, PySpark, Oracle SQL
The project goal was to improve existing financial credit risk models for the customer, a large financial institution. The model we developed together provided the opportunity to save millions.
I worked with internal stakeholders to locate and identify all the necessary data. Then I wrote a set of reusable tools in Python to query and extract billions of rows, for millions of customers, from an unreliable legacy Oracle database. I configured a pipeline, loading the data into an Azure Datalake Store. I used Databricks and PySpark to clean the data and make a high-quality dataset for investigation and modeling. After, I engineered features and trained a time series model using Gradient Boosted Trees. I deployed the model for internal use and comparison to an internal Flask API.
The model we developed together exceeded the Key Performance Indicator by 5%. For a stable credit risk model, 5% is a substantial improvement which can mean thousands of loan defaults avoided and millions saved.
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