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I'm a Senior Data Scientist at
7+ years · Microsoft → TikTok → Presight AI · Billion-scale ML & AI systems
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Key Expertise
Led design & delivery of agentic AI systems & multi-agent architectures for enterprise clients
Deployed on-prem LLMs (MiniMax-M2.5, SLMs) with KV cache optimization for maximum throughput
Improved TikTok Recommendation & Notification algorithms at billion-user scale
Shipped end-to-end systems at Bing scale across multiple markets
Skills
Awards & Achievement
Achievement Beyond Excellence Award
TikTok • 2021 • Engineering Excellence
Microsoft Patent Award
USPTO Patent • 2020 • "Visual Parsing for Annotation Extraction"
Excellence in Innovation Award
Microsoft FY2020-Q2 • "Program Synthesis for Annotations"
GATE All India Rank 28
2017 • Computer Science
Professional Journey
Senior Data Scientist
Presight AI
Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE · On-site
• Led multiple agentic AI systems for enterprise — research, analytics & on-prem Copilot alternatives
• Built Code-Agent with sandboxed execution, chart generation & predictive modeling
• Architected agentic search as embedding-free RAG alternative
• Deployed on-prem LLMs (MiniMax-M2.5, SLMs) via vLLM & llama.cpp with KV cache tuning for max throughput
• Designed LangGraph multi-agent architectures with LLM-as-Judge evaluation
Machine Learning Engineer
ProShort.ai
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023 · 11 mos
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid
• Implemented recommendation algorithms from scratch with real-time updation across multiple pipelines
• Built entire notification system ground-up for consumer apps
• Developed back-end for text-to-video generation tool
Machine Learning Engineer
TikTok
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos
Singapore, Singapore · On-site
• Upgraded user-level age prediction model — boosted DAU, social engagements & stay duration at billion-user scale
• Improved recommendation algorithms for content diversity & quality
• Simplified video filtering/boosting strategies, significantly reducing latency
• Enhanced push notification system with optimized sending time strategies
Data & Applied Scientist
Microsoft
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
• Built algorithms to extract relevant info from web pages for Search Ads Annotations
• Shipped end-to-end at Bing.com scale across multiple markets
• Pioneered incorporating visual cues into search ads — granted a USPTO patent
Master of Technology
IIT Bombay
Specialization
Published Research
"Vocabulary Matters: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Paragraph-level Question Generation"
Authors: Kumar, V., Joshi, M., Ramakrishnan, G., & Li, Y.F.
Conference: AACL-IJCNLP 2020
Achieved 6-point BLEU-4 improvement (16.38 → 22.62) in paragraph-level question generation
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