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Shashi Mittal

Product Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 6 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 14 years of experience in Machine Learning and Operations Research.
  • Led projects saving hundreds of millions in transportation costs.
  • Developed high-impact predictive models enhancing customer experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and Operations Research expert in E-commerce and Sports Analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningOperations Research

Other Skills

Supply Chain OptimizationNetwork Flow ProblemsPredictive AnalyticsOptimization ModelsNetwork PlanningAnalytical ToolsNetwork Expansion ModelsWeb DevelopmentGenerative AI

About

Applied Science Leader with 14 years of experience building and deploying large-scale Machine Learning and Operations Research solutions for Amazon. Proven track record of driving meaningful impact for both the organization’s bottom-line and customer experience. Expertise spans Large- Scale Optimization, Machine learning, Forecasting, and production deployment of science models.

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
14 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
14 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Principal Research Scientist

Oct 2020Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · On-site

  • Currently working in the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT). Work includes solving very-large scale network flow problems for generating short-term plans for Amazon's transportation network, and using Machine Learning for generating demand inputs for the planning systems.
  • Built a Machine Learning based system for predicting which shipments going through Amazon Air are at a risk of not meeting customer promise, with customized precision/recall score of more than 80%.
Machine LearningOperations ResearchSupply Chain OptimizationNetwork Flow Problems

Senior Operations Research Scientist

Promoted

Oct 2015Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos · On-site

  • Built systems for Amazon Air network planning from scratch, including multiple Optimization/ML models that enabled the growth of the business from zero to 100+ aircraft in less than six years. Enabled faster delivery of billions of shipments for Prime customers over the years, resulting in multi-hundred-million-dollar transportation cost savings for Amazon.
  • Developed a Machine Learning model for generating delivery windows for shipments
  • delivered by Amazon Logistics, that has more than 95% accuracy and generates predictions for
  • more than 90% of the shipments. Available as a customer facing feature in Amazon shopping
  • app in US and EU since 2019, and it has greatly improved delivery experience for Amazon
  • customers.
Machine LearningOptimization ModelsNetwork PlanningOperations Research

Operations Research Scientist

Sep 2011Sep 2015 · 4 yrs · On-site

  • Built analytical tools for increasing the footprint of Amazon’s last mile delivery network in multiple major markets.
  • Helped grow the UK last mile network from ground up to delivering more than 80% of Amazon’s shipment in UK within four years, resulting in faster shipment delivery and millions of dollars in cost savings.
  • Devloped models for expanding Amazon Logistics network in multiple other countries: US, India, Germany, Italy, Japan.
Analytical ToolsNetwork Expansion ModelsOperations Research

Cricmetric.com

Company Owner

Apr 2011Present · 15 yrs 1 mo

  • Built Cricket statistics website (https://www.cricmetric.com) from scratch that caters to Cricket fans and fantasy players across the world, with 100K+ average monthly users and 1MM+ average monthly page views.
  • Built Machine Learning based models for generating Win Probability and projected 1st inning score of Cricket matches in real time.
  • Novel methods for ranking players and evaluating ROI of money spent by Indian Premier League (IPL) teams on players (https://www.cricmetric.com/ipl/ranks/).
  • Created a semantic search engine using Generative AI that directly answers users’ questions on Cricket statistics, by converting natural text to SQL queries. (http://cricmetric.com/sage/). This search engine is frequently used by other AI agents, such as Grok and AskPerplexity, for answering user provided questions on the X platform.
Machine LearningWeb DevelopmentGenerative AI

Ralco

Summer Intern

Jan 2008Jan 2008 · 0 mo

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) — Operations Research

Jan 2006Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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