Feb 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · New York, New York, United States

Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, New York, United States

Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States

Jan 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Acquired

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Worked on building machine learning models for automatic assessment of software engineering proficiency and code quality.

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos

• Part of the Driving Safety Team. Worked on algorithms to detect risky driving behavior using telematics data.

Aug 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Berkeley, CA

• Natural Language Processing, Web Architecture and Database Systems.

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos

• Working on solving engineering and machine learning problems to assist ad-tech that serves over 250 billion ad recommendations a month.
• Worked on optimisation of ad delivery, ad relevance and CTR predictions for banner ads.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Applying deep learning models to Named Entity Recognition achieving state-of-art results in Hindi.

May 2015 – Nov 2015 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Haptik allows you to chat with experts and get help with customer support issues, FAQs, information, and almost anything else within minutes. Think WhatsApp - but instead with a certified expert who knows the company inside out.
• Designed algorithms to automate chat conversations, developed data structures for semi-organised data and built chat-context sensitive APIs.

Dec 2014 – May 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on the API backend that handles millions of chats every month on the iOS and Android apps.
• Worked on internal chat tools that integrate machine learning and human effort.
• Developed a scalable image sharing solution for the product that serves voluminous amounts of messages.
• Worked on front-end and design of various tools used throughout the company.
• Tools/Technologies: ReactJS, Flux, Django, MySQL, AWS S3, EC2, Nginx, PIL (Image processing), XMPP, NLTK, Spacy, Numpy, SciPy

Oct 2014 – Dec 2014 · 2 mos

• Worked on the backend and route optimization methods and algorithms for car pooling

Sep 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Worked extensively on PHP based Yii framework.
• Designed and built new features for the product.
• Collated geographical data for various cities and localities by scraping it off the web.
• Developed a backend panel for partnered real estate brokers for data visualisation.
• Did SEO and link building.
• Technologies Worked on : Yii (PHP based MVC framework), Jquery, Bootstrap, Maps/Places/Autocomplete API, AWS, EC2 and RDS, MySql, Scrapy, HTML, CSS

May 2009 – Jan 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Started the blog Etiole.com. Mainly covered technology news and editorials on consumer technology. Wrote 900+ articles and edited 400+ articles. The blog served 100000+ visits per month at its peak. One of the few Indian blogs to have reached Digg's frontpage. Managed a team of 20+ authors and contributors from around the world.

May 2008 – Dec 2014 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• My team and I undertook about 40 freelance projects that required a diverse technical expertise.
• Technologies/Tools/Work : Wordpress, Yii, Django, AngularJS, Nodejs, Jquery, HTML, CSS, Objective C, Android, Facebook Graph/Twitter/Maps Api, Heroku and AWS deployments, MySQL, Postgres, RESTful api development, D3.js, 3.js (Javascript Graphics), Memcached, Nginx, Apache