May 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Senior Data Scientist | Lead AI/ML Engineer (Contract)
• AI-Driven Data Quality Product Development
• Spearheaded end-to-end product ideation and development of an AI-powered data quality product—translating complex business challenges into deployable solutions. Leveraged AI to identify data quality anomalies with 99% accuracy, including previously undefined issue patterns without relying on explicit rules.
• Sensitive Data Detection in Unstructured Content
• Designed and deployed a system to identify and redact PII/PHI in unstructured text using open-source LLMs. Achieved over 90% precision in sensitive data detection, ensuring compliance and data privacy at scale.
• Alumina Knowledge Portal –Recommendation Engine
• Built a recommendation system for standardizing entities (e.g., companies, geographies) within the Alumina portal—focused on M&A and strategic updates. Achieved over 80% accuracy in triangulating and linking records, enhancing data consistency across business intelligence systems.

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Building Next-Gen AI product in travel space. 🚀

Jul 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Consulting CTO — Product, Engineering

Jan 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Senior Leader for DnA | AI & Machine Learning
• Machine Learning, NLP, Predictive Analysis, Neural Networks, Operations Research, LLM, MLOps
• Built Patented Prediction Service for Koch DnA which is an AutoML service use by Koch companies to create forecasting models and use for inferences for sales, inventory etc.
• Built a Production Site Optimisation service for Molex which created huge saving on production process $1M per year by scheduling optimisation by 8%
• Built Production Site Optimisation Service for GP Lumber effectively saving ~$2M by production scheduling process optimisation and saving a lot of on waste material, energy and reducing carbon footprints.
• Built a Feature Ranking service for KGS Analytics suite ranking mostly important feature in higher dimension feature space.
• Experiment | POC with Generative AI.
• Architecture & Infrastructure Design
• Team Management and Mentoring

Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• FinTech, Digital Investment Platform.
• Product, Backend Engineering, BlockChain.

Dec 2019 – Jun 2020 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• CyberSecurity Product.
• Data Engineering, Backend development, Design and Develop Data Pipelines.
• Delivered PluginKB Management System to ease biz-dev operations.
• Stack: Python, Spark, Django, Cassandra, Docker.
• Focused building SRS Platform, read more here.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Energy-Internet Product.
• Acquired by Schneider Electric & Uplight Energy.
• Machine Learning | Platform | Data Engineering
• Energy-Data Platform — Data & Analytics
• Predictive analysis platform for energy forecasting: ARIMA, DeepLearning models.
• Built Connectors framework: An IoT connectivity platform built in Python(Django) enables data ingestion and device control. IoT like Honeywell, Tesla, Rheem, Ecobee.
• Lead product integration&development for an energy giant in Japan for VPP solution.
• Data aggregations using Spark and visualisation via Grafana.
• Applications for protocols like SCADA, Modbus.
• Expertise in OpenADR(VEN & VTN) Python applications built from scratch.
• Virtual Power Plant (VPP) solution, depth knowledge in battery communication.
• Creating/Enhancing data ingestion pipelines.
• Data ingestion at Scale: NiFi to ingest data from large file to Hbase.
• Stack: Python, GoLang, Django, Flask, Hadoop, Kafka, Hbase, InfluxDB, SQL, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, ScikitLearn, Statsmodel.

May 2016 – Jan 2017 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Design & Developed web based product applications which is a suite of different services.
• Services include applications like News app which is largely is personalised news in 7 indian languages
• RESTFul APIs for mobile app and web app
• Integration with front-end web technologies like JavaScript, AngularJS.
• Initate proper deployment stargrey to deploy app on dev and production servers.
• Deployment on Amazon (AWS) servers, services like EBS, EC2, S3 and configuring other tools like Jenkins, Supervisor, Ngnix

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• AfterBuy and AfterSell platform provided an easy platform to discover and avail services for brand products like home appliances, cars etc. and keeps the track of the products/services for brands like Philips, 3M etc.
• Develop web-based python application for different projects, used as services.
• Back-end development using Django framework, MySQL.
• Developing RESTful API's using Tastypie and Django Restful Framework (DRF).

Dec 2014 – Oct 2015 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Backend Engineering, Python Django Developer.