Zak Kraehling

Data Analyst

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About Me

I'm an analytics professional focused on fixed income, data analysis, and data wrangling. I have worked with domestic insurance clients as a Client Servicing Analyst with Clearwater Analytics in Boise, ID since December 2021. I'm an enthusiast for all things Linux, risk, math and my educational background is in data analytics and economics. I’m also the creator of full-fred, an open source Python API the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis recommends for accessing its databases. In my free time I like to read, spend time with friends and family, and stay fit.

Experience

Clearwater Analytics

December 2021 - Present | Boise, ID

Client Services Analyst

  • Validated investment data sets against cash flow predictions and third-party custody data.
  • Created standard operating procedures for quarterly investment accounting reporting projects.
  • Reconciled transactions and positions of investment portfolios using data received via third-party providers.
  • Supported insurance client queries within GAAP accounting, performance, compliance, and risk reports.
  • Integrated alternative investments including limited partnerships into client reporting workflow.

The Ohio State University

July 2018 - July 2019 | Columbus, OH

Research Assistant, College of Arts & Sciences Department of Economics

  • Co-authored a research manuscript focused on asymmetry in transfer markets of over 3,000 NCAA football recruits spanning 14 years.
  • Edited the manuscript and code, and shared findings of OLS and probit regression modelling results at the 2019 Eastern Economic Association Conference.

Education

Boston University

Sept 2019 - December 2021

Master of Science Candidate in Applied Data Analytics

Ohio State University

Aug 2016 - May 2019

Bachelor of Arts in Economics

  • Cum Laude
  • Cofounder and president of Sports Analytics Society

Projects

full-fred

Feb 2021 - Present

Open source Python HTTP API to Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED). The interface translates to Python 100% of methods FRED Web Service supports as per its documentation and is available on the Python Package Index.

HHS Selenium Bot

Nov 2020 - Mar 2021

Selenium firefox web scraper in Python that navigates to the U.S. H.H.S. archive of medical data breaches affecting 500+ people, clicks JavaScript buttons, monitors download, and closes. It removes zombie processes and reduces 100% of unit labor cost of manual data retrieval.

Java Homepage Spring Boot Application

May 2021 - Present

This homepage portfolio site using Spring Boot and Java.

Volunteering

FamilySearch

Web Indexer

May 2021 - Present

Parsed and transcribed 652 birth, census, probate, and naturalization legal records as part of FamilySearch's web indexing initiative to make historical legal records searchable online for FamilySearch users. There's more information about Web Indexing on FamilySearch .