Jun 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Built the Data & ML Infra platform in India, hired across roles - Full stack & Data Engineers. Led team of 25+ members across US & APAC. The platform is used by Matching Science, Sales, Marketing, Search systems for model training , experimentation, serving, feature store and observability.
• ML Infra & Feature Store Platform:
• ▸ Led the team deliver innovative solutions like Self served No code model serving platform streamlining the MLOps and reduced the deployment time from 3-4 weeks to 1-2 days
• ▸ Enabled fine tuning & auto scaling of the inference servers and transformed Indeed Search systems with Gen AI models
• ▸ Brought in innovations like building a Load testing platform and scaled the services enabling performance testing of model serving applications.
• ▸ Built Feature store platform synchronising real time events and provisioned online & offline store for low-latency, high throughput use cases (candidate recommendation to Employers & Job recommendation to Jobseekers)
• ▸ Responsible for setting up team structure handling 24X7 availability of ML Services.
• ML Platform Bridge Team:
• ▸ Being part of ML Leadership council, established Org wide strategy collaborating with multiple Science & ML leaders across business groups and set up vision for Unified ML platform.
• ▸ Drove the Org level OKRs aligning with the vision and mission of building unified ML platform.
• ▸ Established shared ML platform architecture spanning across teams and devised strategy for execution path for the teams
• ▸ Set up the vision and team charter across US, India and Tokyo and enabled the teams to deliver work streams with effective knowledge transfer and collaboration.

Mar 2018 – May 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• ▸ Being the first employee of Vrbo.com (Part of Expedia Group) in Bangalore, helped in building technology team and ramp-up the members.
• ▸ Led a high performing team of 12+ towards design and development of Data products.
• ▸ Set up team vision and charter, career development, performance management, hiring etc
• ▸ Led the team in design, development and delivered Data products for Travel Partner Group
• providing 360-degree view of Vacation rental properties. Leveraging image and NLP techniques for matching properties, derived insights at property and destination level using Graph which are used by Partner success team for Partner acquisition/property retention.
• ▸ Drove the delivery of de-duplication Models the properties hosted on Expedia and enabled Partner Success teams in property acquisition and retention
• ▸ Recognised as crucial engineering leader for driving market insights data products that helped in recovery of travel during COVID-19.
• ▸ Create unique value proposition of the data products. Work with stakeholders, product owners, cross functional and cross geography teams to create roadmap ,ideation and execution

Feb 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As the first employee of Big Data and AI capability group @Fractal.ai, built and setup technology team of 20+ from scratch across Bangalore & Mumbai locations
• As a hands on Leader, Led AI projects for clients in the domain of FSI, CPG and Defence. Expertise in Pre-sales and Consulting for clients, having a track record of onboarding clients with data scale problems to Fractal.
• ♦ Lead teams in designing and developing Big Data Solutions for analytical problems at large scale.
• ♦ Hiring, retaining great talents, coaching and mentoring.
• ♦ Worked with pre-sales and sales teams in creating unique value proposition of the technology driven solutions
• Projects/Problems Addressed:
• 1. Worked with CPG and FSI clients in building Propensity models and implementing Customer Genomics (Probabilistic Learning Algorithm) on Spark.
• 2. Built Customer propensity models using some of the supervised techniques such as LogisticReg, RandomForest, XGBoost at large scale leveraging Spark RDD/DataFrames & ML Pipelines.
• 3. Build Security Surveillance systems using OpenCV, Spark, BoV and Elastic Search
• 4. Worked with one of the FMCG company in developing a real-time anomaly detection system using Kafka, Spark-Streaming and Cassandra.
• 5. Good expertise in statistics, regression analysis and clustering problems.

Jun 2015 – Feb 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• 1. Worked as Senior Engineer in developing operational data store for Airlines.
• 2. Worked with kafka, Spark Streaming, Data Frames & Cassandra.
• 3. Involved in architectural decisions of ETL and DB.
• 4. End to End development and evaluating the performance of the product.
• 5. Ensure data integrity and fault-tolerance.
• 6. Resolved technical issues pertaining to Concurrent writes, handling write failures, shuffle issues, memory issues etc.
• 7. Deep expertise in tuning internals of Spark.
• 8. Research on technical aspects that would be applicable for the product.

Sep 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

• 1. Worked as Research Engineer in Big Data Labs
• 2. Worked with Real time analytics projects.
• 3. Worked on Hadoop ecosystem and related POCs
• 4. Contributor to Apache Storm. Implemented ML algorithms over Storm.
• 5. Implemented large scale deep networks over Spark.
• 6. Implemented realization of deep learning for NLP tasks over Spark.
• Experimented on Text Mining, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Neural Networks and NLP.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• 1. Worked on ETL tools – MS SQL Server Integration services (SSIS) and reporting tools SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• 2. Worked on evaluating the performance of SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2012.
• 3. Worked as SQL developer. Developed many optimized SQL queries.
• 4. Experience in resolving memory issues and Performance tuning of SQL queries