Jalem Raj Rohit

VP of Engineering

Gurugram, Haryana, India12 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Authored books on Machine Learning and serverless engineering.
World #4 and Diamond moderator of StackOverflow.
Founding member of Pydata Mumbai and Delhi.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Data Science expert with strong capabilities in Machine Learning and AI.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)

Other Skills

CC++CSSData AnalysisDatabasesDeep LearningGNU OctaveGamificationHTMLHTML 5HTML scriptingJavaScriptLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxManaging the Learning Function

About

• Authored two books and a video lesson on ML and serverless engineering (Details in my exp. with Packt below) • Open-source: Tinkers around in Julia, Go, R and Python (https://github.com/Dawny33) • World #4 and Diamond moderator of StackOverflow • Founding member of Pydata Mumbai and Pydata Delhi Keywords: Python, R, Julia, Go, Scala, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Big Data • Talks (https://speakerdeck.com/dawny33): 1. The 1960s elegance behind Go's regexp (FOSS Asia, Singapore 2017) 2. Understanding Serverless Architecture (Pycon Taiwan 2017) 3. Linear Regression - The good, the bad and the untold (PyData Delhi 2017) 4. Getting into Data Science (Guest talk at Pydata Raipur, IIIT Naya Raipur) 5. Machine Learning Workshop (2hrs; IIIT Naya Raipur) 6. Lessons learned from building serverless distributed systems (DevOps Days India 2017) 7. Machine Learning Workshop (5.5hrs, Miles India Camp 2017 http://miles.camp/) 8. Lessons learned from building serverless distributed systems (Velocity Conf. London 2017)

Experience

Paisabazaar

Senior Engineering Manager - Machine Learning

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

AVP - Technology
Heads the ML and AI capabilities. Responsible for Applied AI, MLOps, and research. Domains of research in the ML group: Audio/Speech ML, risk/fraud and language models.
Launched a user-facing GenAI-powered chatbot for premium users that can answer questions about their credit report and give personalized recommendations on how to improve their credit health and mix
Launched an internal speech-to-text system that uses an in-house fine-tuned ASR model and language models for auditing all sales calls for compliance. Resulting in 100% call monitoring across call center ops ensuring compliance and mitigating fraud.
Resulting in a 61% reduction in DNC complaints due to real-time DNC detection and call restrictions.
Launched an AI-generated video explainer/guide for all premium customers on their credit health and how to improve it. Powered by in-house fine-tuned text-to-speech model.
Resulting in 7-10% increase in lead conversion.
Driving agent, training and business productivity + conversion by leverage insights and signals from calls
Driving org-wide AI adoption - achieving overall >50% speed-up in product development including frontend dev

Python (Programming Language)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Speech RecognitionNatural Language Processing (NLP)Large Language Models (LLM)Machine Learning

Episource

3 roles

Lead Data Scientist

Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Data Scientist II

Apr 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr

Leading all things Computer Vision

Senior Data Scientist I

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos

Gep worldwide

2 roles

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Aug 2020 · 7 mos

Led a computer vision product and an NLP classification product
Responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle management of both. This includes engineering, software architecture design, Machine Learning and deployment + people management

Data Scientist

Mar 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Things I do:
Machine Learning and ML-Ops
Software Engineering
DevOps
Search
Product Development [Planning, developing, Deploying]
Owning and mentoring software teams
Things I don't do:
Web Dev and design
Green Tea

Episource llc

Senior Consultant - Data Science and NLP

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Things I did:
Architecting the end-to-end backend infrastructure for serverless Machine Learning
Responsible for the backend, infrastructure, ML-ops and DevOps
Keywords: AWS, Ansible, Serverless, NLP, Docker, Devops

Zomato

Senior Software Engineer - Data Science

May 2016 – Jan 2017 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Things I did
Statistical modeling and ML for understanding user behavior
Recommender Systems
Statistical modeling based growth optimization
Things I didn't do
Ask for free food cause I work at Zomato
Keywords: Python, R, SQL, Hive, Kafka, Apache Spark, Decision Trees, Random Forest, Apriori, FP-Growth, Logistic Regression

Packt publishing

Author

Oct 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Birmingham, United Kingdom

Julia Cook-book: An ML guide in Julia programming language: [https://www.amazon.in/Julia-Cookbook-Jalem-Raj-Rohit-ebook/dp/B06Y2X6HM4/]
Julia Solutions: The video course adaptation of the Julia Cookbook: [https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/julia-solutions-video]
Building Serverless Applications with Python: [https://www.amazon.in/Building-Serverless-Applications-Python-cost-effective/dp/1787288676]
Translated into Chinese(Mandarin) and Korean
Keywords: Machine Learning, Big Data, Distributed Computing

Kayako

Data Scientist

Jun 2015 – May 2016 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

First data scientist of Kayako.
Worked on text and large scale social network analytics; and architecting the data pipelines for ETL, querying, machine learning and visualizations
Mining valuable actionable insights from business data, along with hacking historical data for insights which can help Kayako and it's customers in providing better customer service. Includes time series forecasting, analyzing SaaS metrics and growth hacking.
Keywords: Python, R, Time Series, AWS, Redshift, ETL

Scimergent

Data Scientist Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

1. Analysis of Indian Poverty, and it's influential factors with World Bank data and other open sourced data.
2. Analysis of the decadal migration rate of Indian districts and it's influential factors.

Mozilla

Club Lead, IIT Jodhpur

Jan 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

FireFox Student Ambassador, core member and speaker at Mozilla conferences and events.
Speaks about contributing to open source projects, Data Science and metrics.