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title: "NANDA KISHORE JOSHI - Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# NANDA KISHORE JOSHI on Tal

## Headline

Lead AI/ML Scientist \| Decision Systems, Optimization & Execution Governance \| MSc Artificial Intelligence \(UK\)

## About

I’m a Lead AI/ML Scientist working on large\-scale, production\-grade AI systems across optimization, analytics, and decision support in complex enterprise environments\. Over the last 10\+ years, I’ve been involved end\-to\-end in AI initiatives — from problem framing and data readiness to model development and operational adoption — particularly in settings where business complexity, scale, and execution constraints matter as much as technical accuracy\. A recurring pattern I’ve observed is that successful AI adoption depends less on model sophistication and more on execution clarity: clear ownership, disciplined scoping, architectural judgment, and realistic expectations about what should \(and should not\) be built\. Alongside my core role, I spend time engaging with technical leaders and early\-stage founders on use\-case validation and execution design — helping teams structure pilots, stress\-test assumptions, and avoid common delivery pitfalls before scaling\. My areas of focus include: Mathematical Optimization & Operations Research – scheduling, routing, and resource allocation problems Predictive Analytics at Scale – decision\-oriented forecasting beyond dashboards Generative AI & Knowledge Systems – RAG and agent\-based systems for internal decision support Enterprise Digital Twins – simulation of complex operational scenarios I value thoughtful, grounded conversations around practical AI adoption and decision systems in real\-world environments\. Always open to connecting with peers who are navigating complex execution challenges\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

github copilot

hugging face

langgraph

## Work experience

Lead Data Scientist at A\.P\. Moller \- Maersk, Mar 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead Data Scientist for Enterprise Performance Management System, driving profitability via AI/ML implementation\. Pioneered Gen\-AI based Autonomous Agents: Developed Insight Agent for contextual tabular data insights, self\-healing Pandas/SQL agents, Hierarchical Multi\-Agent systems, and a MemGPT\-inspired Multi\-Agentic Memory system for enhanced context and learning\. Optimized LLM Deployment: Finetuned SLMs \(QLoRA\) and deployed on GPT\-enabled VMs using vLLM/TensorRT engines with dynamic batching, reducing inference time by \~80%\. Advanced RAG Implementation: Engineered sophisticated RAG techniques, including intent\-based search, dynamic indexing, ranking, and Hybrid RAG with knowledge graphs\. Core ML Achievements: Delivered revenue forecasts with >95% accuracy and developed a SHAPley\-based Root Cause Analysis framework for data\-driven business actions\. Built Digital Twins of port terminals using Simpy for operational efficiency\. Strategic Integration: Building frameworks to integrate Performance Management Systems with Autonomous Agents and finetuned LLMs

Data Scientist at MyYogaTeacher, Oct 2019 \- Feb 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Lead Data Science team to acquire , track & analyze data and also build machine learning and deep learning models to improve data understanding and user experience Yoga Pose Recognition: Built Automatic live yoga pose recognition using TensorPose and extensive OpenCV concepts with deep CNN's in play Bad Users Out: Built an intelligent system to recognize and detect foul users out of the yoga sessions using face recognition and automatic training techniques Session summary : Created summarizer to generate automatic abstract summary from session transcripts using BERTSUMM Data integrator : Integration of data from facebook ads, Google analytics ,click stream analytics and MYSQL to AWS redshift which is in turn connected to Tableau A/B master : Built A/B testing framework using advance statistical techniques like statistical significance, effect size and confidence intervals to derive the results Predictors : Extensive use of machine learning models like Naive Bayes, SVM, Logistic regression, XGBoost

Data Analyst at NTT DATA, Sep 2016 \- Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Production Failure Predictor : Used SVM and Boosting techniques to predict production job failures there by significantly reducing critical issue and system down time Data Traffic :Built and deployed time series model using Holt Winters to predict data traffic to manage overall load on infrastructure SQL development :Developed database objects, including tables, views and materialized views using SQL\.

Software Engineer at NTT DATA, Dec 2015 \- Sep 2016 · 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, For WELLS FARGO Responsible for understanding the clientele requirements and calibrate the same with business in building Machine Learning algorithms and software applications \. \-Worked on Analyzing the data to find the data pattern causing business issues using Python \-Built ETL packages using Python/SSIS to process large data \-Built Predictive ML modules to avoid business issues \- Customer satisfaction for application enhancements on the current platform \- Customer interactions with cross country collaborations \- Responsible for training the new resources on project applications \- Constantly working on the application optimization Application platforms includes: DotNet/\.Net & SQL

Co\-Founder & CTO at SevaToday \- India, Aug 2011 \- Oct 2019 · 8 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, SevaToday is an online platform catering to the needs for various festive occasions\. It will help the customers to pre\-book the pundits for religious activities\. \- Responsible for building the entire software architecture \- Developed the platform end to end using WordPress \- Constant bug fixing and enhancements

## Education

Certification, Quantum Computing and Machine Learning, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master of Science \- MS, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Liverpool John Moores University

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/NandaKishoreJoshi

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