Headline

Founding Member at Zynk | Engineering and AI Leader | Author - Explainable AI/ML | 40u40 Data Scientists 2023

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Founding Member, Head - Product and Tech at Zynk, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Heading the product and tech development. Joined as the first member with co-founders. My responsibilities include defining strategic technology directions, organization design for engineering and AI teams, hiring tech and data science talent, AI & technical direction, AI & engineering product leadership & delivery. My interests include payments and banking tech infrastructure, scalable distributed systems, agentic AI, data science, and predictive analytics.

Head of AI Products & ML Engineering at Lendingkart, Apr 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, On-site

Associate Director - AI Initiatives & ML Engineering at Lendingkart, Sep 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Data Scientist at Rakuten, Nov 2020 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore

Senior Data Scientist at Rakuten, Apr 2020 - Oct 2020 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Data Scientist at Landmark Group, Aug 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr, Bangalore

Data Scientist at Landmark Group, May 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Predictive Analyst at Quantium, May 2015 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs, Hyderabad Area, India, Scope of work includes building predictive models using various modelling and machine learning techniques to help clients across retail, insurance, telco and other domains optimise business and operations. Other responsibilities include contribution to growth of organisation by adopting best practices of team management and knowledge share

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur