Subba Rao Nittala

AI Researcher

Hyderabad, Telangana, India10 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven workflows and data science initiatives.
Proven track record in enhancing travel booking experiences.
Strong background in cross-functional team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Travel Tech expert with strong data science capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringAi DevelopmentData Analysis

Other Skills

Evaluation FrameworksExperimentationAutomationAI Foundry FeaturesWindows Developer ToolsML PipelinesTravel BookingTravel TechnologyCross-functional Team LeadershipComputer ScienceProgrammingC++CMatlabPython

About

I help build the commerce platform that powers how customers and partners buy, manage, and grow with Microsoft. Some product aspects - 🤖 AI-driven workflows that simplify quoting, pricing & lifecycle ops 🧩 Platform foundations via transactions 💳 Billing & licensing experiences that scale globally 🛡️ Trust-first: secure, compliant, reliable by design

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos

Spearheading data science initiatives focused on real business impact through evaluation frameworks and experimentation.
Developed decision support systems in Commerce core, enhancing agentic automation and quote creation processes.

Data ScienceEvaluation FrameworksExperimentationMachine Learning

Senior Software Engineer

May 2025 – Jan 2026 · 8 mos

Working on AI foundry features in Windows Developer tools team. Major focus areas - making Apps AI aware and enable language or other models to add shimmer to windows apps like Photos or Paint.

AI Foundry FeaturesWindows Developer ToolsSoftware EngineeringAI Development

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Worked on Bing - travel related worldwide experiences- focussing on Hotel segment and relevant grounding, working with partners like Booking, Expedia. Designed ML Pipelines & Enhanced Travel booking for Millions of Users (Daily user count was around 1.8M).
Article - https://www.expedia.com/newsroom/expedia-group-and-microsoft-bing-launch-new-strategic-partnership-offering-travelers-additional-loyalty-perks/
Blog - https://blogs.bing.com/search/February-2024/The-next-wave-of-Microsoft-Copilot-for-employees-and-students

Machine LearningML PipelinesTravel BookingData Analysis

Data Scientist 2

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

Working on Bing - travel related worldwide experiences like destination highlights, tips and visually immersive content.
Checkout - https://www.bing.com/travel/
Article - https://www.windowscentral.com/bing-brings-new-travel-experience-help-save-you-money

Avalara

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2019 – Dec 2019 · 9 mos

Worked on Tax automation for Cross border shipments - HS code engine.

Indix

Software Engineer

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Built catalog of > 2B. Acquired by American tax firm Avalara.
News article - https://www.geekwire.com/2019/tax-automation-company-avalara-acquires-seattle-startup-indix-boost-product-description-database/

Microsoft

Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

Worked on the Knowledge Graph powering Microsoft services such as Bing (search) and Cortana (personal assistant). The role involves onboarding or addition of semi-structured and structured data sources like Wikipedia and Wikia using big data processing platforms.
News - https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-bing-updates-search-results-interface-to-make-it-more-visually-immersive-346665

Aalto university

Research Assistant

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Espoo, Finland

Worked on the problem of contact map prediction in bioinformatics and developed a kernel based classifier to improve the performance of a state of the art algorithm. The working prototype reduced the false positives predicted by gplmDCA.
Related paper (underlying problem of contact maps) - https://acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/14909452/journal.pcbi.1003889.pdf

Ibm

Extreme Blue Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · New Delhi, India

Summer Internship at IBM Research Lab, New Delhi. Worked in the area of Text Analytics and Content Management.
IBM project - https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=4975