Mahesh Jindal

AI Researcher

New York City, New York, United States6 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building advanced recommender systems.
  • Strong background in large language models and decision science.
  • Proven track record in optimizing user engagement through ML.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning expert in the B2C SaaS industry focusing on personalized user experiences.

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Skills

Core Skills

Recommender SystemsMachine LearningData Science

Other Skills

A/B TestingAlgorithmsAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkBig DataBootstrapC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Casual InferenceCloud ComputingContextual BanditsData Analytics

About

I am an Applied Scientist specializing in Research Science and Machine Learning, with a focus on building advanced recommender systems and leveraging cutting-edge research in large language models (LLMs). My work centers around ranking algorithms, representation learning, reinforcement learning, and sequential recommenders to deliver highly personalized user experiences at scale. At Amazon Global Media and Entertainment, I drive personalized recommendations through the use of large-scale datasets and state-of-the-art ML techniques, optimizing user engagement and business impact. With a research background from Columbia University, I integrate decision science to ensure models not only deliver accuracy but also support real-time, data-driven business decisions. My expertise extends to LLMs, representation learning, and model interpretability, enabling smarter, more adaptable systems for content understanding and personalization. Let’s connect if you’re looking for an applied scientist passionate about recommender systems, decision science, and innovative machine learning research to drive business growth. My skillset includes: Research Areas: Recommender Systems, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks. Core Skills: Data Modelling, Statistics, Machine Learning, MLOps, Data Visualization, REST, SOAP, Software Development, Distributed Computing, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing Programming Languages: Java, Python, Scala, R, SQL,JSON, XML, LaTeX. Cloud: AWS, GCP Frameworks: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Scalding, Spring, Django, Flask, Scalatra, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Spacy, NLTK, Dask Databases: PostgresSQL, MySQL, DynamoDb, Redshift, MongoDB, H2, Redis Analytical Softwares: Tableau, Dremio, Power BI Connect with me here - https://topmate.io/maheshjindal ---

Experience

6 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Applied Scientist II

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos

Reinforcement LearningRecommender SystemsLarge Language Models (LLM)Contextual BanditsNatural Language Processing (NLP)OffPolicy Evaluation+5

Applied Scientist I

May 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Research on content ranking, search relevance, representation learning and Large Language Models
PersonalizationResearchRankingMachine LearningRecommender SystemsContextual Bandits+1

Data Scientist

Jan 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Working on Applied Science and Research in Personalization and Search Relevance space.

Johnson & johnson

Research Fellow

Sep 2022Dec 2022 · 3 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • Worked as a Applied Science and Research fellow for the capstone project to predict Commercial Insurance Payments for Surgical Procedures using ML

Audible

Data Science Research Intern

Jun 2022Dec 2022 · 6 mos

  • Worked on Applied Science and Research for developing Reinforcement Learning Based ML Systems from scratch for personalized ranking and content recommendations.
ETLStatisticsCloud ComputingDeep LearningTensorFlowBig Data+11

Columbia university in the city of new york

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Large Scale Stream Processing

Promoted

Jan 2022Jun 2022 · 5 mos

Big DataResearchMachine LearningData Science

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Reinforcement Learning

Sep 2021Dec 2021 · 3 mos

  • Worked as a graduate teaching assistant for the Reinforcement Learning course responsible for taking coding sessions, grading assignments and clarifying subject related doubts of the students.
Machine Learning

Columbia university department of computer science

Graduate Research Assistant - IRT Lab

Jan 2022Dec 2022 · 11 mos · New York, New York, United States

StatisticsBig DataResearchNatural Language Processing (NLP)Software DevelopmentMachine Learning+1

Fico

3 roles

Software Engineering - Engineer 1

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos

  • ◘ Developed an event-driven application framework (using Java, Kafka, Kubernetes APIs) to capture and monitor data events from 15+ applications. It also generates automated Tableau reports and sends alerts in case of any application malfunction. It helped in improving client services and reducing labour costs by $100000.
  • ◘ Performed Natural Language Processing, Modelling and Sentimental Analysis on Equity research reports integrated with FICO Score Platform for generating consumer risk score with 93% accuracy (Tools Used: Spacy, NLTK, TensorFlow, Python, AWS Redshift, AWS Sage Maker).
  • ◘ Assisted Product Owner with Backlog grooming, User Story R&D, and prioritisation, (Tools Used: Jira).
ETLStatisticsCloud ComputingDeep LearningTensorFlowBig Data+10

Software Engineering - Associate

Jul 2020May 2021 · 10 mos

  • ◘ Built and proposed a new design of Data Processing framework supporting Batch and Web Service Execution; Integrated with 5+ FICO legacy Software; TOP Contributor, (Tools Used: Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Stream, Kafka Ecosystem, AWS EKS, Java, Scala, Spark, AVRO, Parquet Maven, Git, Docker).
  • ◘ Built a Cluster Service Provider supporting seamless integration, widely used by multiple FICO applications for dynamically provisioning Kafka Clusters on Kubernetes, (Tools Used: Java, Fabrik8, Spring Boot, SQL, AWS EKS, VPC, EC2, IAM, ELB).
  • ◘ Built and deployed an autonomic auto-scaling prediction system for cloud resource provisioning using Neural networks and SVM’s used to generate optimized resource configuration while spinning up cloud resources; Reduced overall AWS Billing Cost by $1MM; TOP Contributor, (Tools Used: NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Docker, Flask, Python).
  • ◘ Performed unit testing, sonar integration for code-coverage and collaborated with QA team managers to coordinate testing for 24/7 coverage, (Tools Used: Jacoco, Junit, Mockito, Power mock, Sonar).
ETLStatisticsCloud ComputingTensorFlowBig DataAlgorithms+9

Software Engineering - Intern

Mar 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • ◘ Built a spark execution framework for provisioning dynamic AWS EMR Clusters, scheduling, and executing Spark Jobs. TOP Contributor, (Tools Used: Java, Scala, Spring Boot, AWS EMR, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon S3, Spark Job Server).
  • ◘ Built a customized ETL software required by ‘Equifax’ to perform wrangling operations on large datasets using Big Data technologies; presented Software Architectural Design to an 8-member client team; TOP Contributor, (Tools Used: Java, Scala, Spark, Apache Zeppelin, EMR, Spring, Amazon S3, Scalatra, Kubernetes, AWS RDS, ELB).
  • ◘ Worked on code refactoring, code coverage and unit testing of 4+ applications resulted in application performance improvement by 30% on average.
  • ◘ Debugged and resolved 60+ JIRA production issues related to various software applications raised by the product owners without any backlogs.
  • ◘ Received a Spot Award in Nov 2019 for outstanding contributions towards projects.
ETLCloud ComputingBig DataAlgorithmsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Databases+6

Chegg india

Subject Matter Expert - Software Development

Sep 2018Apr 2019 · 7 mos

  • ◘ Worked on resolving and implementing solutions for challenging problems asked by Computer Science undergraduate students within restricted time constraints.
  • ◘ Helped peers and subordinates to prepare for exams related to Computer Science subjects.

Education

Columbia University

Master of Science - MS — Data Science

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Chitkara University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jul 2016Jun 2020

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