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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

- Spearheaded adoption of analytics and experimentation best practices through extensive cross-functional collaborations with sales, compliance, operations, marketing, and product teams.- Architected real-time machine learning platform with feature store, reinforced model training, and boosted ensemble / deep learning models for automated credit underwriting. - Introduced innovations enhancing fairness and responsible use of underwriting models through bias detection, explainability, and selective deployment techniques.- Guided development of a distributed data lake and analytics platform enabling self-service experimentation capabilities at scale.- Strategically integrated and productized an Underwriting-As-A-Service offer, slashing client implementation timelines by 80%. The new service became a flagship component of the company’s platform.- Built a high-caliber team of data scientists / engineers focusing on business impact, durably institutionalized an analytics-first culture.

San Francisco, California, Us

Architected and built foundational data services fueling Salesforce Einstein, the AI platform to integrate CRM data that enables personalized and predictive experiences:- Real-time feature store enabling low-latency serving of predictive features for model training and inference workflows at scale.- Data lake ingestion pipelines and metadata control layer.- ML metrics system to collect end to end metrics for end user

Palo Alto, California, Us

- Architected, optimized, and led efforts on the analytics data platform, powering self-service ETL, batch processing, and research workflows for cross-functional data consumers.- Spearheaded migration of terabyte-scale workloads from Hadoop stack to Apache Spark, enabling faster iterative analysis.- Implemented lifetime asset projection models developed by research team, unlocking new product insights from customer journey analysis at scale.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Core developer of Avocado, a widely adopted interactive data exploration and ETL tool empowering analytics across Microsoft.- Integrated Microsoft Office dataset connections into the experimentation platforms and data frameworks underpinning Yammer Analytics. This enabled more advanced analysis of product usage correlating behaviors across Office suite applications.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Served as production engineer for DBS Bank Singapore's online wholesale banking application, which utilized Solaris OS, OracleDB, and third-party vendor software. - Coordinated major system upgrade to integrate two-factor authentication security capabilities. - Trained offshore support team members to handle critical production support tasks. - Delivered 24/7 availability through proactive monitoring, issue diagnosis, vulnerability management, capacity planning, and database administration across the production environment.

Ph.D, Computational And Mathematical Engineering

B. Eng, Electrical Engineering