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title: "Anshu Kumar - Lead Data Scientist in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Anshu Kumar, 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 based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, deepseek, and..."
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# Anshu Kumar on Tal

## 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

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