Pawan Gupta

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led data science initiatives at Ola to enhance marketplace performance.
Developed ETA modeling at Swiggy to improve customer trust.
Currently building India's AI assistant leveraging advanced AI technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science expert in AI-driven consumer solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data AnalyticsOperations Research

Other Skills

Problem SolvingSystems DesignTeam ManagementR (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)TensorFlowMachine LearningBig DataJavaScriptC++AlgorithmsJavaHTMLCSoftware Development

About

Currently building Kruti, India's own AI assistant, turning everyday perplexities into simple answers and actions leveraging LLMs, long-context reasoning, prompt engineering, and agentic AI to power real-world agents for cab booking, bill payments and beyond Previously led Data Science at Ola Consumer, driving marketplace performance and cost efficiency across pricing, allocation, automation, location intelligence, and fraud systems. Earlier, led ETA modelling at Swiggy, improving reliability and customer trust at scale

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Krutrim

Principal Data Scientist

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Building Kruti - India's own AI assistant (https://www.kruti.ai)

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

4 roles

Principal Data Scientist

Promoted

Apr 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led the data science effort at Ola Consumer to drive performance and cost efficiency for the marketplace and experience functions. Optimal pricing and allocation, process automation, location intelligence and fraud detection have been some of our key focus areas

Problem SolvingSystems DesignOperations ResearchData AnalyticsTeam Management

Lead Data Scientist

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Senior Research Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Research Engineer

Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 · 11 mos

Swiggy

Staff Data Scientist

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Owned the data science charter for Promises (ETA modelling) at Swiggy

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Data Scientist

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

As a part of Tech Infra datascience team, mined and analysed SQL query big data to identify frequent and costly operations along with associated entities and achieve overall system optimisation.
Built time series forecasting models to predict insertion rate for database tables to prevent memory overflow errors