Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apr 2021 – Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Head of Datascience team, reported to group CTO, envisoned & nurtured many AI powered feature moats besides central ranking and discounting, domain specific SLM/LLM, NLP, vision systems for MMT, from 0 to N.
• Known for being a technology leader with breadth and depth , from setting vision top down to building such high impact DS/AI work, able to simplify concepts and converse at varying levels of depth & relevance.
• Highly capable of bringing AI thought leadership to solve unstructured business problems.
• Empowered multiple LOBs with AI/ML vision and success stories, to win CxO trust in DS & team and establish “Data and Datascience everywhere” mind-set. It was a journey of vision, perseverance and team effort cross DS and non-DS teams.
• We demonstrated DS driven impact from big-ticket charters, such as search/ranking, pricing, ZC, Price lock, TripGuarantee, and more — a rock star team of 35 data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers.
• ∞ We have built multiple patent-worthy unique USP features (filing in progress) in travel industry - such as Price lock, Rails Trip Guarantee, and Zero Cancellation, RL experiment platform.
• ∞ Loved building systems and platforms, at scale -
• Envisoned and built in-house RL/bandit sequential experiment platform. It enables the product/category and data scientists to envision sequential/continual learning ML projects.
• Travel insurance recommendation system as an extendable system for internal use cases.
• Light weight LLM router services to speed up POCs and LLM adoption.
• Multi-purpose image vision platform for travel use cases
• LLM SLM inference systems (multi-Lora) and embedding systems, partnering with Nvidia
• Ranking, recommendations, pricing, personalization, forecasting, NLU/NLP content, SLMs/LLMs, risk, causal systems, content-based IR systems, and generative AI conversational systems.

May 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Started with Hotels learning to rank , personalized ranking charter with a small pod of 3 data scientist engineers and managed multiple tracks with a team of 8. Scaled all sorts of ranking, discounting systems for both MakeMyTrip and GoIbibo brands.
• Also steered DS initiatives into Rails charter which is successful even after 3 years, for multiple brands (MMT, GI, RedRails).

Nov 2007 – Apr 2018 · 10 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• As Principal-TechnicalPartner, I have built robust AI/ML solutions & systems for diverse range of clientele, from CPG, Retail, E-commerce, Tech, Tourism, Hospitality, Pharma, BFSI, and more.
• These success stories were possible because of my team, that I guided to master a diverse range of ML systems to NLU/NLP stack. Whether it is advanced pricing econometric modeling or NLU /NLI pipeline bench, whether it is targetting/marketing strategy to advanced bayesian choice models or deep learning models, my team and I set the vision, built data flow, models, simulations, and delivered actionables to senior leadership of Fortune 100 companies.
• Technical advisor and director of many multi-million-dollar projects.
• Lead ~70 projects for a variety of industries.
• Conducted product and price optimization projects saved anywhere between 3M (retail) to 1Billion USD (cruise ship decisions), for many clients.
• Envisoned and delivered ML models on diverse datasets, some with millions of observations (generating 4X to 5X ROI).
• Promoted to Partner in 7 years, one of the best growth tracks.

Feb 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Developed very large volume scalable, ultra-low latency, software applications for multi-currency fixed income security and derivative applications.

Jul 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

• An engineer building travel demand forecasting models, network planning models, statistical models, simulations. These prediction models were used to make major planning, routing decisions and for a few ITS system analyses.