Rated as an outstanding problem solver and team player in every org/team I worked in. I have 15+ years of experience in machine learning/data science. Well versed with AI, ML, NLP, Deep Learning techniques. Have worked on problems like information extraction, search ranking, recommender systems, chatbots, risk and fraud detection, demand forecasting, online ad optimization, gesture recognition systems, handwriting recognition.I worked as a Data Scientist at Flipkart, before starting my entrepreneurial journey. In five+ years at Flipkart, I worked on problems related to demand forecasting, fraud detection and product discovery(search & recommendations) apart from several problems scattered across different domains. (2011-2017)Before Flipkart, I worked in several different startups as data scientist/machine learning expert and was exposed to an array of domains like online advertising, handwriting recognition, machine translation, gesture recognition etc. (2006-2011)My first exposure to entrepreneurship was early on when I worked on the project from ONGC. I and my co-founder worked with a small team to build a system for scheduling and automating preventive maintenance activities. The team also worked on several small-scale projects for different clients. (2002-2003). I started my career as a researcher at NCST and that's when got introduced to AI and NLP. (2000-2003)I did my graduation in physics from Mumbai University and did my masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. (2005)I explore life by traveling, trekking, rock climbing, paragliding, practicing yoga, playing several sports and involved parenthood.