Ridz Balla

Ridz Balla has a diverse work experience starting from 2019. They began their career as a Business Analyst Intern at narratable.co, where they excelled in communicating key analysis findings to the founders. In 2019, they also worked as a Customer Service Specialist at IGA, INC., ensuring high-level customer satisfaction and managing point-of-sale processes. In 2020, Ridz worked at AEC Group as a Market Research Surveyor, surpassing survey quotas through excellent communication and persuasion skills. They also had a role as an Investment Research Analyst at UNSW Founders, conducting investment research and collaborating closely with the Business Development manager. Ridz showcased their technical skills as a Software Engineer at Upwork in 2020, developing a node.js communication layer in TypeScript and creating trading strategies for their client. In 2021, they joined Particular Audience as a Software Engineer, specializing in frontend web development and incorporating machine learning models into web applications. Ridz then joined Payble in 2022 as a Full Stack Engineer, contributing to the development of features and utilizing serverless technologies. Currently, Ridz is a Full Stack Engineer at NOVA Entertainment, starting in 2023.

Ridz Balla completed a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer and Communications Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, which took place from 2014 to 2018. Following this, Ridz pursued a Master's degree in Finance from UNSW Business School, which took place from 2018 to 2020.

In addition to these academic qualifications, Ridz has obtained several certifications. These include "Designing RESTful APIs" from LinkedIn in April 2023, "C# Intermediate Programming (OOP, Inheritance, Composition, Interfaces, Classes)" from Code With Mosh in December 2021, "Modern HTML5 & CSS3 from the beginning" from Udemy in July 2021, "Modern JavaScript from the beginning" from Udemy in July 2021, "Project Based Algorithms and Data Structures" from Udemy in July 2021, "Data Manipulation with Pandas" from DataCamp in June 2020, "Introduction to Data Visualization with Seaborn" from DataCamp in June 2020, "Introduction to Python for Finance" from DataCamp in April 2020, "Intermediate Python for Data Science" from DataCamp in March 2020, "Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1)" from DataCamp in March 2020, "Introduction to Python" from DataCamp in December 2019, "Business Metrics for Data-Driven Companies" from Coursera Course Certificates in October 2016, and "Database Management Essentials" from Coursera Course Certificates in August 2016. It is worth noting that the obtained month and year for the certification "Introduction to Data Science in Python" are not provided.