Susant Achary

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in building large-scale distributed data systems.
  • Proven track record in real-time personalization and recommendation systems.
  • Strong contributor to open-source machine learning projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer specializing in AI and Machine Learning for Media and Insurance industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

TransformersData EngineeringComputer Vision

Other Skills

HuggingFace TGIPythonFastTextDistributed SystemsApache AirflowStreaming InfrastructureGoogle BigQueryGoogle DataprocDeep LearningDocker SwarmBack-End Web DevelopmentEdge ComputingGitImage ProcessingObject Detection

About

Learning Everyday.... Experienced engineer in the data space. Interested in large scale distributed data systems, focused on impact over activity. #Building Port_AI, #FULL STACK # Busy Fine-Tuning SLMs, Quantising, With a Goal to Continuously Explore and Build Tools from Open Source to Solve Daily Problems. Code does the talking ๐Ÿ˜„ Along Side Focusing on Geospatial Intelligence and Reasoning and Medical Imaging ๐Ÿ‘‹ ASK Anything in General ๐ŸŒ Traveler at heart! ๐Ÿ˜Š --------------- Contributor@๐Ÿค— (Admirer of Open Source) **All views and comments are personal. ** My core strength lies in a Research-to-Realization approach: ๐Ÿ”น Explore state-of-the-art research ๐Ÿ”น Integrate promising innovations into new/existing tools for PoCs ๐Ÿ”น Present key findings to leadership ๐Ÿ”น Transform successful PoCs into industry-grade solutions Thank you.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Hugging face

Open Source Contributor

Aug 2024 โ€“ Present ยท 1 yr 9 mos

  • Member - LiteRT + MLX Community
  • Contributed 30+ LLM models .
  • Love the HF Community, so work with models, datasets, explore, learn concepts and upload FT, Quantized - Models, where-in possible.
  • Continuous Goal to Build Tools from Open Source to Solve Daily Problems.
  • Check out work:
  • Finetuned-distilgpt2 on Constitution of India- https://huggingface.co/Susant-Achary/distilgpt2-finetuned-constitution-of-india
HuggingFace TGITransformers

Samsung global research (sgr)

2 roles

Product Manager

Jun 2023 โ€“ Nov 2023 ยท 5 mos

  • For brief period of time was managing the projects, a lesson learnt on job.

Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager (AI-ML, Recsys, Distributed Systems)

Apr 2022 โ€“ Present ยท 4 yrs 1 mo

  • ๐Ÿ”น[Samsung TV Plus (FAST) | Real-time Discovery (RecSys + Search/IR)]
  • Built p95 low-latency real-time personalization + discovery stack for remote-first TV UX across ~4,300 live channels + ~66,000 VOD in ~30 countries.
  • Unified RecSys + Search/IR across Guide, Home, VOD rails, Sports hubs with hybrid retrieval (ANN embeddings + lexical + rules) and freshness + geo/rights + language/safety filters.
  • Implemented constraint-aware ranking for channel-surfing intent, cold-start, multilingual catalogs, and diversity/novelty; deployed distributed serving with cache hierarchy (device โ†’ edge โ†’ server) + online features.
  • Primary metrics owned: Time-to-First-Play (TTFP), Qualified Watch Time, Retention, Query Success Rate, Latency/SLO (p95), Infra cost per play, user satisfaction.
  • Revenue linkage: improved discovery โ†’ higher watch time/retention โ†’ better ad fill + ad yield (FAST monetization) and session depth (measured via qualified watch-time uplift + retention lift).
  • ๐Ÿ”น[Samsung.com (E-Com B2C) | Batch Product Personalization ($120M Revenue)]
  • Architected a daily batch recommender across 20 countries for Homepage, PDP, Search, Order Confirmation, using 6+ algorithms (EASE, SASRec, CF, FastText similarity, association rules, popularity).
  • Built BigQuery pipelines (Adobe clickstream + orders + catalog) with daily feature refresh; trained EASE + FastText on Dataproc; orchestrated DEV/STG/PROD with Airflow (retries/backfills/logging).
  • Developed a modular framework (40+ strategies) with blending + business rules + country tuning; shipped GDPR-aligned personalization (consent filtering, governed PII).
  • Business impact: drove $120M cumulative revenue from personalized placements and improved conversion across key surfaces.
  • Primary metrics owned: CTR, ATC rate, CVR, Revenue per Session / RPV, AOV uplift, coverage (catalog + user), diversity, latency/availability of daily delivery, and offline ranking metrics (NDCG/Hit@K) for model iteration.
Data EngineeringTransformersPythonFastTextDistributed SystemsApache Airflow+3

Aicamp

Community Development Member

Jun 2023 โ€“ Present ยท 2 yrs 11 mos ยท Remote

  • Organize Events for AICamp and Plan the Host Setup. Assisting Tech Crowds with AI Related Questions

Github

Open Source Contributor

Apr 2021 โ€“ Present ยท 5 yrs 1 mo

Coursera

Beta Tester

Jul 2020 โ€“ Present ยท 5 yrs 10 mos

  • Test courses from Coursera and Suggest on the content before they are released; and give my reviews and feedback on the content.Primarily Data Science and Analytics

Kaggle

Kaggle Contributor

May 2019 โ€“ Present ยท 7 yrs

  • Kaggler by Curiosity , 3X Kaggle Expert

Allstate india

Machine Learning Engineer - 2 (Computer Vision Stack)

Feb 2019 โ€“ Mar 2022 ยท 3 yrs 1 mo ยท Remote

  • [Domain: Claim Estimation in Automotive & Property Insurance]
  • ๐Ÿ”นWorked on creating fully supervised and semi-supervised semantic segmentation models to segment different types of damage on images of damaged cars.
  • ๐Ÿ”นIncorporate Computer Vision, AI, 3D rendering, etc. into existing product for Vehicle Claim
  • Verification by creating synthetic dataset by Unity3D, UnReal Engine to train model.
  • ๐Ÿ”นDeveloped pipelines for data preprocessing and image feature extraction and reduced reproduction GPU hours and cost by 50%.
  • Worked with CCCOne Total Repair Platform to integrate APIs.
  • For Property Inspection Tool worked to identify Start-Up Tech and Evaluation for Allstate Strategic Ventures.
  • Technical Lead
  • ๐Ÿ”นAllstate a Fortune 100 Company (Closely worked with Allstate Northern Ireland Team)

Tata consultancy services

Computer Vision Developer(ML) , TCS Innovation Lab

Oct 2015 โ€“ Jan 2019 ยท 3 yrs 3 mos ยท Remote

  • Worked extensively in Computer Vision , Image Processing and Edge AI based product development which includes Algorithm Experimentation, Implementation, Optimization and Operationalization.
  • Below are the Work in brief :
  • Scene Text Detection &Recognition : Deep Learning based Detection, Extraction , Recognition and Translation . [Domain: Logistics & Transportation].
  • Digital Evidence Management System: Object Detection & Localization, Tracking the object
  • Masking portion of image. [Domain: surveillance]. [Live-In Production]
  • Forest Asset Inspection : Identify tree , Localization, counting of trees , Volumetric Analysis using 3D Point Cloud and Digital Terrain Model. [Domain :Forestry].
  • Warehouse Inventory Management: Counting the inventory in warehouse, Image Quality Analysis, Image Alignment and Super Image Resolution. [Domain: Retail & Warehouse]. [Live-In Production]
Deep LearningComputer VisionDocker SwarmBack-End Web DevelopmentEdge Computing

Cmc ltd

Semantic and Ontology Developer R&D - BigData CoE

Oct 2014 โ€“ Sep 2015 ยท 11 mos ยท Hybrid

  • Worked involved Ontology Modelling and Development on Tenant Management System
  • Used RDFS, RDF, writing SPARQL Query ,using Sesame API & Jena API.
  • Triple Store in Open Source Technologies. [Domain: IOT]
  • CMC earlier a PSU later acquired by TCS Ltd in 2014
GitImage ProcessingObject DetectionComputer Vision

Kilometer.in

Intern

Apr 2014 โ€“ May 2014 ยท 1 mo ยท online

  • My Responsibility as an Intern was to generate traffic and encourage the awareness about Car Pooling ,Car Sharing to avoid traffic congestion.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar

Bachelor of Technology - BTech โ€” Information Technology

Jan 2010 โ€“ Jan 2014

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Delhi

Master of Science - MS โ€” Geoinformatics (Geo-Spatial)

Jan 2025 โ€“ Jan 2027

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Delhi

Post Graduate Diploma - Applied Statistics โ€” Industrial Statistics(Specialization)

Jan 2016 โ€“ Jan 2018

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