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Work Experience

Moneygram

Bengaluru, India
Senior Software Engineer (ML), Mar 2023 - Current

  • Worked on setting up Kubeflow pipelines with GitLab integration for the team
  • Worked on several document intelligence projects such as KYC verification using VLMs, data extraction using text segmentation, detection and recognition models
  • Developed a multilingual chatbot using Google’s Dialogflow CX, Natural Language AI, and Botcopy API
  • Integrated several features in the chatbot: live agent handoffs, authentication, Qualtrics Survey, transaction query, amend, and refund support
  • Integrated LLMs for chat summary; RAG over company FAQ docs
  • Used DOC AI and BERT QA models for document question answering to automate agent onboarding

Paytm

Bengaluru, India
Senior Software Engineer (ML), Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Developed the ML orchestration framework using Azkaban and AWS EMR
  • Improved performance of models through better feature engineering and handling class imbalances
  • Implemented transient EMR cluster design to reduce costs and bottlenecks for Spark jobs

Capgemini

Bengaluru, India
ML Tech Lead, Apr 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Applied state-of-the-art deep learning models (CNNs, YOLO series, MMAction, VAEs, MS-Simple Baselines, GANs, Vision Transformers, etc.) to detect several unsafe events (person out of bounds / standing up, anomalous objects, person in distress) for Disney parks
  • Integrated MLOps (from data versioning to model registration) using AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, S3, and GitHub CI/CD for seamless retraining. Added a Drift monitoring framework built using AWS (Cloudwatch agent, Lambda, Athena, QuickSight) and Kubernetes
  • Optimized resource allocation in Kubernetes and model compilation to TensorRT, resulting in successfully handling 48 cameras running at 12 fps (every day), supporting 5 DL models in parallel with only 12 GPUs and an end-to-end runtime under 3 seconds
  • Successfully worked on a POC on NVIDIA Deepstream and TLT for tracking crowd density in theme parks (COVID times) and movement across regions of interest

Capgemini

Bengaluru, India
Data Engineer, Oct 2019 - Mar 2021

  • Designed and developed a new Data Lake python framework, with a test-driven development style, featuring ETL capabilities (using PySpark), job-recovery, job-control and data protection
  • Worked on a large scale Data migration project, covering over 50 subject areas, 15000+ tables, and 1000+ ETL processes, migrating from Teradata, Informatica and Maestro to Snowflake, AWS and UC4
  • Designed and developed cross-industry accelerators including TeraSnow (Python+Flask webapp for SQL conversion) and CGAttest (data validation tool with Tableau integration)

Education

NIT Silchar

Assam, India
M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

Projects

  • Real Time video analytics recipe, implementing small and large scale object detection from modeling to deployment
  • Dota2 games analysis using PySpark for insights on character picks and matchups
  • More projects available at: GitHub