Nitin Hardeniya — CEO

I lead a team of over 30 Data Scientists, Decision Scientists, and Analysts at Gojek, where we are responsible for implementing machine learning models across the GoFood, Mart, and Biz products. Our team focuses on solving problems in search, recommendations, computer vision, natural language processing, content improvements, and merchant and user growth. I have over 12 years of experience working on machine-learning problems applied to various real-world applications. I have written a book, “NLTK Essentials” and filed >5 patents. I have done my masters from IIIT Hyderabad, specialising in computational Linguistics (NLP), focusing on information retrieval/NLP for Indian languages. I was an early scientist at Swiggy, I built V1’s of problems like feed ranking, and catalogue intelligence, Over time my team focused on Home page personalisation, Multi-objective optimisation, and Food Discovery. Build ML tech behind some of the key features like "top-picks", "Restaurant like X" and Feed ranking using Pointwise/ Pairwise ranking; we also used LDA and ALS (Alternative least Square) to build hybrid systems. Actively collaborated with the platform team to build and deploy these cutting-edge systems. Swiggy was a landmark in my career where I worked in various positions as a principal scientist, managing small and Large teams. Have worked across different setups, from a fast-growing startup to one of the most prestigious finance companies. Solid record of end-to-end Developing -> Deploying delivering Millions$ of impact at 10M DAU scale in latency constraint setting. Author of the book "nltk-essentials"​ You can buy it here>> - https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/nltk-essentials - http://www.amazon.com/NLTK-Essentials-Nitin-Hardeniya/dp/1784396907 - https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/nltk-essentials/9781784396909/

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science leader in B2C tech, specializing in machine learning and AI-driven personalization.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 15 yrs 3 mos