Nirmal Pant

Machine Learning Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Machine Learning and Big Data computation.
Published research on Computer Vision and painting classification.
Top 0.1% in Mathematics during high school.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and Big Data expert in the SaaS industry.

Contact

1nirmal.pant@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkASP.NETBig DataCC++Core JavaGitJSPJavaJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxMachine LearningMicrosoft SQL Server

About

I have been part of Retail Catalog, Incubation, Maps Team in Microsoft STCI. I have experience in Machine Learning and Big Data computation. I have been involved in ads Classification & Matching, Automatic Email Generation System for User Queries. I was also part of the Maps Team which requires lot of big data processing which gets surfaced into Bing Maps. I have interest in Computer Vision and published paper for Classification of Paintings based on Genre and Style. I was among top 0.1% successful students in Mathematics in High School (2004) and Intermediate School(2006). I have secured 99.6 percentile in GATE 2012.

Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Worked on Deals Identification using different features like Price History, Price Drop, Price Comparison to come up with deal of the day scenario.
Design & Lead Bing Shopping Search initiative on Serp for Key Scenarios like Best of Web/ Shopping Answers etc and scale it across 85+ markets.
Working of Related Searches for Shop & scaling it using different candidate generation techniques & ranking improvements.
Lead User Analytics on Shop with analysis on Query / Clicks / Other Engagement Analysis.

Software Engineer II

Mar 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Built a Category Classifier to identify the category of a given product ad.
Worked on Ads Conflation models for conflating product with product ads and generating metrics for overmatching and undermatching.
Worked on Scaling Similar Products using Node2Vec Graph based Similarity.
Developed a Query Weapon Classifier to detect shopping content suppression.
Worked on Scaling Product Based Shopping Task Pane Triggering using different Preweb/PostWeb Based Triggering Techniques.
Worked on Retail Opportunity Analysis on Retail Intent Queries and sliced it into different intent and user cohorts.
Shipped an L3 Ranker for Shop Vertical Ranking and Relevance across all markets.

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Worked on Bing Maps Data Platform Team and implemented a Generic Pipeline Design for Maps Data from different vendors for Bing.
Implemented a machine learning based similarity algorithm for conflation of data from different vendors based on vector based models and bag of words. It had improvement in the matching with significant performance improvement.

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Assistant System Engineer

Sep 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai

Worked with TCS’s NGM Solutions Team for 1 year and 9 months in DotNet Technology and Sharepoint Product.
Implemented a Vodafone POC in SharePoint that involved custom development by invoking web service and content management in SharePoint.
Implemented Solr Search, which involved document and database search, including advanced search features such as faceting and auto-complete for the ICICI Prudential project.