At deepcompute, we work on maximizing Data Science ROI for businesses. In the new reality of modern day business, Data enabled decision making is a key health metric and hence it becomes imperative for businesses to deploy Data Science teams for extracting value from in-house and third-party data. 80% of the work involved in Data Science activities is in fact Data Engineering work (like Data Aggregation, Representation, Cleansing, Iterative model tuning) which has minimal overlap with core Data Science skills. This is our raison d'être - We exist to take care of the 80%, so Data Science teams can re-double efforts on the 20% of their core activities.

Rovi corporation is one of the market leaders in entertainment meta data and associated services. Rovi augmented their offering with Conversational search and discovery through the acquisition of Veveo, inc.My role was to help support the integration process and to facilitate deployment across multiple customers in the SF Bay area (Both in the pre and post sales stages).

Buzzinga is a Social Media Analytics start-up (now part of Headrun) whose unique selling point is superior culling of commercially relevant social media content from multiple popular web properties to serve as feedback to our clients in addition to extensive custom tailoring for specific workflow requirements.In the role as the head of technology I strive to solve technical challenges in gathering tremendous amounts of data from the internet and building data processing pipelines to enrich the same. These processes and tools although handling large loads are designed to be managed by a small efficient team of engineers.Being a bootstrapped technology driven start-up which is healthy and cash-positive I am responsible for managing the technology related risks and in keeping costs under control.

Headrun is a bootstrapped software services company focused on long-term engagements and geared towards incubating products internally.In the role of head of technology I help put in place technology processes, evaluate feasibility of solutions, assess the requirements from clients and find appropriate mapping to potential implementation, hiring and training individuals to become part of the technical team. As a part of this process much effort is spent on streamlining proposed solutions to maximize cost effectiveness for the benefit of the customer. This involves putting in place open source based tool chains and keeping project complexity under control.

Senior Developer mentoring recruits and providing inputs on system design and development; Interacting with clients and helping with product deploymentDevelopmental work:* Embedded development on Windows mobile platform for adding social features to client software.* Feature addition and maintenance of in-house infrastructure.* Device media indexing and search for maemo platform.

Developer in charge of building a software framework for extracting video metadata from the web and supporting modules to help in data enrichment. Involved working on Linux and building sophisticated frameworks using Python and C. Also, worked on the Windows Mobile 5 and 6 platforms for building a mobile video search client. Helped build video playback, video capture and upload amongst other features. Involved in web development developing features in Javascript.* Design and development of robust software infrastructure for information extraction, data handling and enrichment on Linux employing Python and C.---- (Played Lead role in) Crawling infrastructure - Defining a new internal usage language called PyXSL - Trend extraction from blogs - In-memory database with tables, views, indices, journaling, triggers, hot-patchable plugins with capability to interface with other instances on separate machines using RPC API - Realtime sports data extraction from web and incremental update to search instances - Blog crawler to index 2.5M+ blogs and auto-extract video metadata.---- (Played supporting role in) Visual web scraping tool similar to MIT's SIMILE - In house Distributed process management system - Data correlation using "Fuzzy" string matching.* Design and development of memory and cpu efficient video handling features on Windows mobile platform using Visual Studio Environment.---- (Played Lead role in) Integrating open-source video player - Web based client prototype used as base for vtap.com---- (Played supporting role in) Video streaming - Play list management - Video capture and upload to Youtube - HTML Page Transcoding for iPhone wikipedia client.