Excelra Knowledge Solutions, Pvt Ltd

Senior Manager (AI/ML/Python Automation), WFH (February 2021 – Till Date)

Excelra's data and analytics solutions empower innovation in life sciences across the value chain from discovery to market.

      • Python/Cloud/ back-end support on client projects (J&J, Cytokinetics)

      • Worked on parsing and extracting various information from journal/patent documents.

          • Analyzing requirements, outlining sub-modules, evaluation metrics etc.

          • Extracting various Biomedical entities and related information from documents

          • Extracting Textual information from documents

          • Extracting Images and related information from documents

          • Extracting Tables and related information from documents etc.

          • Skills: NLP / Text Analytics, Image processing, ML/DL, Python etc.


Utopia India Private Limited

Senior Engineer Data Science, Bangalore (December 2018 - January 2021)

Utopia (A Prometheus Group Company) is a leading software and services company for end-to-end data quality, data migration, and data governance solutions.

      • Working both independently and with team members to develop, refine, implement various modules

      • Working on statistical and machine learning model development, validation, and implementation

      • Mentored and lead junior developers/interns to build state-of-the-art solutions by designing algorithms and carrying out experiments

      • Designed and implemented various NLP/ML/image processing models to fulfil business requirements and allow for data exposure

      • Defined ML process flow, Api design, Data evaluation metrics and worked on feature developments, enhancing them as per business requirements

      • API services and solutions developments, cloud integration, product deployment etc.

      • Projects

          • Field Data Collection Project : ML based Application to assist manual field data collection process

          • Intelligent Data Capture : ML based application to extract meaningful information from nameplate images

              • Lead and mentored team on

                • Research on various Image processing and enhancements modules

                • Transfer Learning/Generative adversarial networks for image quality enhancing

                • Image orientation and localization

                • Text Classification and Parsing modules

                • API developments and cloud deployments ( Django, AWS)

                • DevOps/Continuous integration and developments ( Jenkins, Docker) etc

          • Document Linking Project : Find, merge and link documents from different sources like pdf / images / text documents / datasheets / scanned documents etc.

          • Document Based Data Enrichment Project : Classify given document as searchable, non searchable, picture, hand written documents etc. Extract information from each of these documents

          • Various Automation Projects : Goal is to bring automation to workforce for saving time and manpower

              • Classification, Cleansing, Creation, Con-solidification of Industrial data

              • Detect part number (ID) and add as footer for given documents

              • Detect various attribute values of a given item from documents

              • Vertical/horizontal tabular detection and name-value mapping from given documents

              • Tool to merge PDF based on given information in excel sheets

              • Achievements

                • TTC Award - Utopia Annual Awards 2020 :Turning The Cube Award Criteria : Evaluates all possible options, presents innovative solutions and evaluates risks and benefits to arrive at suitable solutions.

                • Spot Award (December 2019)

                • Spot Award (July 2019)

                • Gem Award (2nd Quarter - 2019)


UVJ Technologies Private Limited

Data Scientist, Cochin (June 2016 - December 2018)

UVJ Technologies (A Calpine Group Enterprise) is developing business opportunities in the domains of medical biotechnology, industrial biotechnology and clinical research services

      • Worked as Data Scientist at the Calpine Labs (R&D Team)

      • Built and implemented the strategy behind all machine learning and data science efforts for the business.

      • Defined scope and provided subject master expertise to develop innovative solutions to real-world data analytics and research problems.

      • Closely worked with Project Managers to manage project scope, identify & deploy appropriate resources to support system development efforts.

      • Lead the development team, guide and mentor junior developers, and interns.

      • Oversaw all aspects of day to day data science for the business.

      • Projects :

        • HRtray : Designed and lead team on end to end product development. Worked on resume parsing and ranking modules.

        • AskIndAs : Domain specific Natural Language Question Answering System

        • Application of NLP, ML on various medical / health care related business problems

            • CIOMS forms generation : Parsing medical/clinical documents

            • ICD Codes generation: Extraction and mapping of vaious entities from medical/clinical documents

            • AI engine for diabetic care plan : Created binary classification model

            • Medical Inference Framework on Clinical Trials

            • Twitter data analytics on medical/health care domain

        • Doctors review and ranking system : Web Scraping, Topic modeling, Sentiment Analysis

        • Retinal classification system : Worked on image processing (opencv), data augmentation, convolutional neural networks etc

        • OBD data analytics : Worked on regression models/ scoring models

    • Skills : Team Management, R&D publications, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Machine Learning, Python, Django, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Neo4j etc


Seynse Technologies Private Limited (startup)

Data Science Engineer, Goa (September 2015 - June 2016)

Seynse Technologies Private Limited is a venture focused on digital financial products and is one of the ventures from Prototyze, which works on building mobile technology centered businesses in multiple sectors such as Financial Services, Transportation & Logistics, Training & Learning, and Fitness.

    • Worked closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model experiments, implementations, and new feature creations

    • Worked closely with product team and use machine learning, data mining, and statistical techniques to create scalable solutions for various business problems

    • Experienced in building Algorithms, Analytical solutions, Recommendation systems, Credit scoring model etc

    • Projects :

        • PointsWala : Built recommendation engine based on content based, graph based, colloborative filtering etc

        • SalaryMeter : Built compensation prediction model based on regression models.

        • LoanSingh : Built credit risk model based. Worked on data preperation, EDA, cleaning, clustering, regression models etc

    • Skills : NLP, ML, Recommendation Systems, Python, Django, Mahout, Amazon Web Services, Postgresql, Aerospike, Neo4J etc


Concerta Dynamics Private Limited (startup)

Data Science Engineer, Bangalore (August 2014 - August 2015)

DeCirc (Concerta Dynamics Private Limited) is a social intelligence engine that drives sales through intelligent profiling and recommendations across online and offline channels.

    • Worked on entire data processing pipeline - data extraction, data cleaning, data storing, data modeling, model deployment, data visualization etc

    • Involved in back-end developments and built the product and features from scratch.

    • Product : Personalized advertisement recommendation engine based on user profile.

        • Text classification and clustering

        • Analyzed user sentiments from different data sources

        • Extracted key entities from data sources

        • Crated user profiles and clusters and built Recommendation Engine

        • Analyzed and visualized various social media data.

        • Worked on Hadoop/Spark based data processing

        • Data Engineering : AWS, EC2, EMR, SQS, Cloudwatch, Kafka, Neo4j, MongoDB, Cronjobs etc

    • Skills : Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, sentiment analysis, Python programming (scikit-learn, pandas, scipy, numpy etc), AWS, Netmagic, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4J, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka etc


Internships

  • Project Trainee, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), DRDO, Bangalore (January 2014 - June 2014)

    • Project : Hybrid Information Extraction for Knowledge Base Creation and Effective Entity Linking

        • Creation of knowledge base/ ontologies

        • Extracted entities, relationships from the natural language reports using statistical and rule based approaches.

        • Visualized extracted entities as a graph based on the relationships existing between them for effective entity linking and inference.

        • Skills : Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Knowledge Graph, Information Extraction, Data Visualization, Python, NLTK, CRF++, Java, Jena, Protege, Swoop, GraphML etc

  • Summer School on Natural Language Processing (IASNLP-2014), IIIT Hyderabad (July 2014)

    • Project: Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue system

        • Developed an anaphora resolution system for dialogues using Rule based approach.

        • Stanford POS Tagger and Dependency Parser were used for tagging and parse tree generation.

        • Hobbs algorithm was used for tree search and selection constraints were applied to find out possible referent and antecedents.

        • Skills : Python, Stanford Pos tagger, Stanford Parser

  • Project Trainee, IIITMK, Thiruvananthapuram (May 2013)

    • Project: Information Retrieval System for the Malayalam language

        • Developed lightweight stemmer for Malayalam, which conflates terms by suffix removal.

        • Developed an information retrieval system for Malayalam, considering synonyms and negations of the terms specified in the query.

        • Skills : Python, Natural Language Processing

  • Project Trainee, Rhydo Technologies, Cochin (September 2011 - March 2012)

    • Project : Intelligent Bipedal Robot

        • Programmed the robot to collect various sensor parameter and to transmit the collected data to the control station using wireless means.

        • Programmed the robot to be controlled by voice commands.

        • Programmed the robot to perform path tracing, path tracking, path plotting, object recognition, obstacle avoidance, ball kicking etc.

        • Skills : Image Processing, Matlab, PIC16F877


Others

  • Toastmasters International

      • Former Toastmasters Member, Club : Special Zone Toastmasters, Kakkanad, Kochi

      • Completed Level CC : Competent Communicator

      • Completed Level CL : Competent Leader

      • Completed Level 1 : Pathways (Presentation Mastery)

      • Served as Vice President Membership (2018-2019)

  • Teaching Assistant, Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad (2013-2014)

      • Engaged in taking lectures / lab assistance for B.Tech Degree students.

      • Subjects handled : Programming, Data Structures, Soft Computing, Project Guidance etc