SARANSH SRIVASTAVA

VP of Engineering

18 yrs 7 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led high-performing AI/ML teams at Expedia.
Developed innovative AI solutions for travel recommendations.
Expert in deep learning and statistical learning techniques.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Travel Technology expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

Contact

saranshec@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Ai SolutionsRecommendation SystemsNatural Language Understanding

Other Skills

.NET.NET FrameworkAJAXASP.NET MVCAgile MethodologiesAgile/Scrum methodologyAmazon Web Services (AWS)Build AutomationBusiness AnalysisC#C# 4.0Classification modelsContinuous IntegrationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cross Collaboration

About

- A visionary innovator with a strong passion for transforming industries through AI/ML. - Years of extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing end-to-end AI/ML products/solutions. - A highly accomplished leader with an exceptional record of building and leading high-performing AI/ML teams to drive intelligent transformation. - Worked across a variety of challenging analytical problems such as Recommendation Systems, Surface OmniChannel Capabilities, Customer Journey Study, Customer Effort Score, and Virtual Assistant/Chatbot, etc. - Currently leading a team of engineers and scientists to build a smarter conversation platform at Expedia. -Technical Experience: Deep Learning: CNN, RNN, LSTM, Data Augmentation, etc. Statistical Learning: Time Series Models (including ARIMA, ARFIMA, and ARCH) Generalized Linear Models (including Multiple Regression, Logistic Regression, and Polynomial Regression), Regularized Regression Models (Ridge Regression, the LASSO, the Group LASSO). Machine Learning: Principal Component Analysis, Decision Trees, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, and Gradient Boosting Machine. ✉︎ saranshec@gmail.com

Experience

18 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · India

Expedia group

2 roles

Sr. Manager, Software Development Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Sep 2022 · 4 yrs

Improved Business Operations by providing the Data-Driven Routing Framework with self-learning capabilities.
Lead all aspects of Business Analysis, design, development, testing, and delivery in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodology.
Responsible for delivering AI Solutions for Recommendation Systems to provide travel recommendations.
Cross Collaborated with the Technical, Product, and Operation teams to streamline the roadmap between the Intelligence and Front Line Agent services to enhance the customer experience.
Contributed to greater team productivity and performance by mentoring and promoting individuals from onshore and offshore teams.
Worked closely with stakeholders to determine the priority of specific requirements based on their business values.

Data-Driven Routing FrameworkAI SolutionsRecommendation SystemsAgile/Scrum methodologyBusiness AnalysisCross Collaboration

Software Development Engineer II - III

Jun 2013 – Aug 2018 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for delivering AI Solutions for Recommendation Systems to provide travel recommendations for customers.
Spearheaded the implementation of an Intelligent Contact Distribution system for travel customers to connect to Expedia support using different channels like Chat, Voice, or Email.
Design and developed a Virtual Agent Platform for travel customers
to connect to Expedia support using different channels like Facebook Line, WhatsApp, etc.
Build and develop Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system
to handle end-to-end interactions between virtual chatbots and travel customers.

AI SolutionsIntelligent Contact DistributionVirtual Agent PlatformNatural Language Understanding

Grapecity

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Build speech recognition systems where the entire workflow of sending the audio files from hospitals to text conversion and verification is performed by Physicians.
Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client

Speech Recognition SystemsCross-functional Collaboration

Indus valley partners

Software Engineer

May 2010 – Mar 2011 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Build Reconciliation System for Hedge funds to provide the real time reconciliation between funds and broker.
Worked on Build Automation for Continuous Integration CI using MS Build and Team City.

Reconciliation SystemBuild AutomationContinuous Integration

Verizon

Software Analyst

Jul 2007 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Development of pricing and ordering systems for different telecom products like FIOS, HIS and their Value-added services.
Performed system analysis, documentation, testing and production support for platform transitions.

Pricing and Ordering SystemsSystem AnalysisDocumentation