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title: "Nishant Babel - Principal Data Scientist in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Nishant Babel, Principal Data Scientist @ MiQ | Applied GenAI & AI Agents | Building AI Systems at Scale | Ex-Founder | Ex-InMobi, Moneyview | BITS Pilani based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and gemini."
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# Nishant Babel on Tal

## Headline

Principal Data Scientist @ MiQ \| Applied GenAI & AI Agents \| Building AI Systems at Scale \| Ex\-Founder \| Ex\-InMobi, Moneyview \| BITS Pilani

## About

Principal Data Scientist & Applied AI Lead \| Building Production\-Grade GenAI Systems I am an Applied AI leader with 10\+ years of experience architecting and scaling production ML systems that drive measurable ROI\. My expertise lies at the intersection of ML System Design and Business Strategy, where I transition complex models from Jupyter notebooks into high\-performance, cost\-effective product features\. My Recent Focus: Currently on a strategic sabbatical, I am deep\-diving into the engineering of Agentic Workflows, RAG Optimization, and SLM Fine\-tuning\. My goal is to lead the next generation of AI\-native products where reliability, latency, and cost are non\-negotiable\. Career Highlights: • GenAI at Scale: Architected India’s first AI credit card assistant, achieving high\-precision Text2SQL and intent classification for millions of financial transactions\. • Entrepreneurial Leadership: As a CTO/Co\-founder, I built a GenAI analytics platform from 0\-to\-1, reducing token costs by 80% through hybrid LLM \+ classical ML architectures\. • Business Impact: Deployed lead\-scoring systems that drove a 10x increase in conversions for top\-tier fintechs \(Moneyview\)\. Core Stack: Python, LLMs \(LangChain, LangGraph\), RAG, MLOps \(FastAPI, Docker\), SLMs, NLP, and Python A lifelong learner and builder, driven by curiosity and passion for solving meaningful problems with AI\. I spend most of my "non\-building" time reading or learning a new skill\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

hugging face

langgraph

langsmith

## Work experience

Principal Data Scientist at MiQ, Feb 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru

Career transition at Career Break, Aug 2025 \- Jan 2026 · 6 mos, Took a planned career break to focus on health, travel, and deepening understanding of the evolving AI landscape, while advising a non\-profit on short term AI initiatives\.

AI/ML Lead at CheQ, Nov 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led the development of CheQ Wisor—India’s first AI\-powered credit card expert—powering personalized spend insights, unified rewards views, and personalized credit card recommendations • Trained SLMs for Intent classification, NER and Text2SQL to power deterministic responses to the user queries in natural language • Built intelligent document processing pipelines using pdf table extraction \(Camelot, pdfplumber\), OCR using LLMs \(Gemini Flash and Mistral OCR\), and classical ML to extract and structure credit card transactions as well as rewards data \(80%\+ coverage, 90%\+ accuracy\) • Led a 10\+ member cross\-functional team \(MLEs, backend, mobile, design, product\) and architected seamless integration between ML models, backend services, and mobile frontend with p90 latency <5s and system reliability >99%

EIR at Antler, Jul 2024 \- Jul 2024 · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Got accepted into the Antler India Residency cohort for teams, was selected amongst thousands of applicants building from India for the world

Co\-Founder & CTO at Vire Insights, Feb 2023 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Vire is the next\-gen product analytics platform for LLM apps\. Vire analyzes prompts, keywords, and explicit as well as implicit feedback from user sessions to help you track your AI product performance and improve user retention

## Education

B\.E\. \(Hons\.\), Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Deep Learning \- Theory and Practice, Design Thinking and Innovation, Indian Institute of Science \(IISc\)

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