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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