Varun Nathan

Lead ML Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in quantitative data analysis and machine learning.
Proven track record in building predictive models.
Gold medalist in both Master's and Bachelor's degrees.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science expert with a focus on SAAS and Fintech industries.

Contact

varunnathan89@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

NlpModel TrainingData ScienceMachine LearningAnalytics

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsAnalytical skillsBusiness AnalysisCampaign analyticsChatbot developmentCredit risk modelingCustomer analyticsData AnalysisData MiningData analysisData engineeringDeploymentDocument clusteringIntent detectionKeyword extraction

About

I am a numbers enthusiast with aspirations of being part of a world class organization doing hardcore quantitative data analysis and number crunching. I am passionate about solving complex business problems using cutting edge statistical and machine learning techniques and learning new technologies.

Experience

Observe.ai

3 roles

Staff Machine Learning Scientist

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Apr 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Amazon

Applied Scientist II

Jul 2020 – Dec 2020 · 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Areas of work:
> Recommendation and Search
> NLP
Roles and Responsibilities:
> Model training experimentation
> Building model service
> Deployment

Freshworks inc. (formerly freshdesk)

Lead Data Scientist

May 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

Areas of work:
> Building Information-Retrieval based chatbots for Freshdesk
> Document clustering of support tickets
> Keyword/phrase extraction and topic modelling of customer queries
> Intent detection and entity extraction for chatbots
> Improving the quality of speech transcriptions using language modelling and soundex algorithm
> Training conversational bots with dialog management capabilities using open source frameworks such as Rasa
> Interest model for predictive lead scoring for freshsales

Kabbage, inc

2 roles

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Oct 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Building credit risk models for Kabbage and its partners
2. Data Engineering - engineering the data science pipeline that 's setup on python with new facilities
3. Assessing the importance of new sources of information (revenue channels) in new customer and returning customer credit risk models
4. Model Monitoring - monitoring models of Kabbage and partners
Tools used at work include Python, R, Hadoop, AWS, SQL and hive

Data Scientist

Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 · 7 mos

I was part of the data science team of Kabbage in India
Credit Risk Management - Developing application & behavior scorecards
Portfolio Management
Marketing Analytics - Channel Optimization, Designing line & price campaigns, loyalty campaigns
Long Term Customer Value Estimation - Estimating long term profits of new & existing customers with the aim of using them in new customer underwriting, line and price assignment strategies, marketing campaigns etc.