Nitin Sangwan

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Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 9 mos experience
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  • Led engineering and product teams at PaySense.
  • Founded an ag-tech startup focused on sustainability.
  • Developed data science infrastructure for real estate technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Ag-Tech expert with a strong background in data science and engineering.

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About

Currently making an honest attempt to build a better agriculture ecosystem with technology and science. If you are excited by agriculture technology and/or sustainability, don't hesitate to reach out. -- Previously Head of Engineering and Product at PaySense, a fintech consumer credit startup in India that was acquired by PayU in 2019 for USD $185M. -- 9 years of experience in web engineering, machine learning and product development. Continue to be fully hands-on.

Experience

Virtual internships

Vice President of Engineering

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs

Dehaat

Vice President Of Engineering

Sep 2019Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Responsibility: Own all tech development; build and lead the team.
  • My work:
  • Set up a team of ~100 across all roles of tech; built a culture of accountability and documentation.
  • Hands-on contribution to backend services, systems engineering and architecture.

Better soil

Founder

Apr 2019Aug 2019 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Attempted to start a venture in ag-tech - building an ecosystem of quality food and sustainable farming, premised on a traceable supply chain. In the process, visited and interviewed farmers, consumers, farmers' markets, not-for-profit organizations and passionate individuals.
  • The startup did not materialise as expected, but I came out of it with a deep appreciation for sustainable practises as well as day-to-day challenges faced by farmers.

Paysense

Head of Engineering and Product

Sep 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Acquired by Naspers/PayU.
  • PaySense is a fintech startup providing access to personal and consumer credit in India. It has constantly appeared amongst top lending fin-tech startups in India.
  • My work - built complete lending infrastructure - acquisition, underwriting, loan management, payments and collections. Set up and lead data science and subsequently complete engineering and product team.

Housing.com

Head of Data Science Lab

Mar 2014Mar 2016 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Housing.com is a listings portal for residential real estate. Was the first to provide a usable map based listings search experience.
  • My work - developed personalised discovery experience, search relevance and recommendation system; built complete analytics infrastructure handling millions of clickstream events every hour; optimized SEO/M and website experience with predictive loading.
  • Set up and lead the data science lab.

American express

2 roles

Assistant Manager, Fraud Prediction

Feb 2014Mar 2014 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Fraud risk modelling: regression, decision tress and random forests to predict fraud; evaluating digital fraud indicators for online transactions; developing fraud prevention strategies; developing big data capabilities.

Big Data Analyst, Fraud Prediction

Jan 2012Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Fraud risk modelling: regression, decision tress and random forests to predict fraud; evaluating digital fraud indicators for online transactions; developing fraud prevention strategies; developing big data capabilities.

Netapp

Member Technical Staff

Aug 2011Dec 2011 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on NAS protocol development (CIFS) on a scalable Clustered Storage platform.

Eth zurich

Summer Intern

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Schweiz

  • Developed app for real time diagnosis of cancer using machine learning on patient's cellular images.

Artifical intelligence lab, reykjavik university, ísland

Summer Intern

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Iceland

  • Worked in collaboration with a game production organisation to develop AI enabled NPCs (Non Player Characters) for social gaming environments.

Center for development of advanced computing

Summer Intern

May 2009Jul 2009 · 2 mos · India

  • Developed machine learning solution for Drug Structure Prediction.

Evolutionary systems group, italia

Summer Intern

May 2008Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Italy

  • Worked on developing virtual reality models of archeological sites of Italy - Part of NET-Connect Project of European Union.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Integrated Masters — Mathematics and Computing

Jan 2006Jan 2011

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