May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• [pro bono] The India Climate and Health Data Capacity Accelerator program aims to strengthen data capacity of the social sector in India by placing data professionals as Fellows within social impact organizations. As a mentor, guiding fellows as they navigate and solve complex issues using data-driven strategies.

Nov 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Reach out if building and training large-scale ML models excites you - multi-modal (GPS, transactions, time series, entity resolution in financial text etc) across core product, marketing and recommendations while optimizing for key business metrics like monetization, growth and retention.
• With a lean team of 35+ strong engineers from some of the top institutes and industry, we're actively hiring for more senior and staff roles to lead the way.

Aug 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Leading a stellar team on Trust and Safety AI for all content on the LinkedIn Platform, specifically looking at combating Hate Speech, Fraud, Spam and ensuring trust and policy compliance on LinkedIn Feed, Groups, Ads and Jobs.

Apr 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Tech lead for several projects in LinkedIn AI, specifically looking at creating and deploying personalized models for job recommendations for 700+ Million members worldwide, model biases, graph based representation learning at scale.
• Lead a 5 member team across multiple projects to learn new graph embeddings for directionality, ensure quality of recommendations, serve new candidate retrieval algorithms etc.

Sep 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Powering the algorithms behind recommendations on Jobs Home (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/ )
• Lead efforts to address biases in the system and introduced novel deep learning models leading to significant increase in Jobs Revenue
• Delivered talks on ML at various avenues for evangelizing LinkedIn and hiring ML talent
• Conducted hands-on workshop on recommendation systems and ML basics for 100+ engineers at LinkedIn
• Technology: Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Pig, Python, TensorFlow

Feb 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr

• [pro bono] Building ML models / frameworks for Automated Assessment of Free Text Answers (Indian Languages) by Children in Rural Areas. This is to enable in-app evaluation of children's learning levels, thereby suggesting the right interventions for personalized growth. Links below

Jan 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Development and deployment of machine learning models to improve cost, speed and efficiency for Flipkart’s Supply Chain Logistics impacting over 15 million shipments monthly
• Projects undertaken: predicting delay in shipment delivery, clustering ordered-together data, kids age insight and other data science use cases in supply chain and user insights
• Built core, scalable constructs for tenants (Snapshot Store, Inventory Management etc.), platform's client library, re-architected codebase to layered micro-services, archival strategy for messages
• Among top 3 teams in Machine Learning Challenge organized at Flipkart
• Technology: Python, Spark, Java, Shell Scripting, MySQL, Cassandra, HBase, Redis, Scala

Jul 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore, India

• Part of Automatic Storage Management, a file system and volume manager for Oracle DB
• Designed priority load balancer, multiple DB-ASM instance connections for Oracle Server Cluster
• Implemented changes in file extent allocation, name parsing and IP address resolution in clusters
• Patent on Efficient Mirror Data Re-sync
• Additionally developed tools to aid in understanding of code flow using Python, Javascript

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Understanding Social, Institutional and Economic Aspects of Malnutrition in Urban Slums (ICDS Scheme)
• Developed a web tool for trend analysis, correlation and visualization of ICDS data collected by Department of Women and Child Health, Govt. of Maharashtra
• Comprehensive data analysis of Dharavi Slum data with SNEHA Foundation
• Delivered a functional data analysis tool to Department of Women and Child Health, Govt. of Maharashtra

Jun 2009 – Aug 2009 · 2 mos · HQ:Delhi, India

• Developed the intranet portal - Personnel Information System (PIS) for NIC that manages employee data and records. The portal was developed using HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP and Oracle 9i.