Pankaj Kumar Porwal — CEO
• Leading the AI/ML strategy roadmap, identifying high-impact AI/ML and GenAI use cases across fraud, personalization, pricing, negotiation, customer support, and search & discovery, influencing product roadmaps and organizational investments in AI. • Collaborating with engineering and product teams to integrate ML models in customer-facing applications, improving user engagement and operational scalability. • Expertise in supervised/unsupervised learning, ensemble methods (XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost), recommendation systems, optimization techniques, reinforcement learning, deep learning (CNNs, Transformers) and NLP (GenAI, RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, LangChain) • Proficient in Python (scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, PyTorch, Tensorflow), SQL (Snowflake, MySQL), Knowledge Graphs, Git, cloud-native workflows on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Function, GCS) and AWS (S3, Lambda) • Experienced in MLOps best practices with a track record of deploying and scaling ML solutions in production using cloud-native architectures (GCP, AWS), containerized services (Kubernetes, KServe), and robust CI/CD pipelines. Familiar with implementing observability, model monitoring, and orchestration using Airflow • Hands-on experience deploying ML models via REST APIs, batch (cron) jobs, and streaming pipelines (RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub); serving models on VMs with Gunicorn and process management with Supervisor • Strong foundation in experimental design (A/B testing) and causal inference, with hands-on experience applying these methods to optimize user experiences and drive business outcomes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science leader with expertise in AI/ML solutions across Fintech and E-commerce sectors.
Experience: 19 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence (ai)
Career Highlights
- Led AI/ML strategy impacting multiple business areas.
- Achieved significant cost savings through innovative solutions.
- Expert in deploying scalable ML solutions in production.
Work Experience
Amazon
Applied Science Manager - Alexa International (8 mos)
CARS24
Director - Data Science (DS/ML Labs) (4 yrs)
Techno India NJR Institute of Technology, Udaipur
Principal (11 yrs 3 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Assistant Professor (2 yrs)
Cornell University
Post Doctoral Associate (5 mos)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant (1 yr)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Cornell University
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
