Headline

Lead Data Scientist @ Target | IIT Madras | Co-Author | Ex-Walmart, VMware | LLM Systems & Engineering | Search | SEO · GEO · Strategist | Building Agentic solution with proven traffic and revenue gains

About

I am an AI/ML Engineering Leader with 12 years of experience specializing in Agentic AI, LLM systems, and AI-native search. An IIT Madras alumnus, I have a proven track record of scaling production-grade machine learning solutions at organizations like Target and Walmart. My expertise encompasses designing complex RAG pipelines, optimizing search discoverability, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact AI products.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

deepseek

langchain

langfuse

langgraph

mcp

Work experience

Lead Data Scientist at Target, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru

Staff Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on Product Search using Generative AI. Visual Item Understanding to improve retrieval. (VLM) Enhancing attribute coverage using finetuned LLama and MPT based open-source LLMs.

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at BYJU'S, Sep 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Data Scientist at Khoros, Sep 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Working Semantic Search using Deep Learning and NLP, Unsupervised Learning Problems and Sentiment Analysis problems.

Reviewer at Packt, Dec 2019 - Feb 2020 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Reviewed the book and Built exercises for The Data Visualization Workshop https://www.packtpub.com/data/the-data-visualization-workshop-second-edition

Education

Master of Technology (MTech), Computer Technology/Computer Vision, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science and Engineering, Technocrats Institute of Technology