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title: "Suman Behera - Machine Learning Engineer — Portfolio Projects in Bhubaneswar | Tal"
description: "Meet Suman Behera, “Data Scientist & ML Engineer | MLOps · NLP · Recommender Systems | PyTorch · FastAPI · Docker | Open to Work” based in Bhubaneswar."
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# Suman Behera on Tal

## Headline

“Data Scientist & ML Engineer \| MLOps · NLP · Recommender Systems \| PyTorch · FastAPI · Docker \| Open to Work”

## About

Data Scientist and ML Engineer building production\-grade ML systems end\-to\-end — from raw data to deployed APIs\. I specialize in MLOps pipelines, NLP with Transformers, and recommender systems\. My projects process 2\.75M\+ records, are tracked with MLflow, versioned with DVC, containerized with Docker, and deployed on Render and Hugging Face Spaces\. Key achievements: • Reduced Docker image from 11\.5 GB → 434 MB enabling cloud deployment • Improved F1 score by 65\.5% fine\-tuning Weighted RoBERTa on LIAR dataset • Built a 7\-stage reproducible MLOps pipeline with CI/CD via GitHub Actions Currently learning: RAG \(Retrieval\-Augmented Generation\) and LLM fine\-tuning\. Open to Data Scientist, ML Engineer, and AI/ML roles\. 📧 beherasuman44444@gmail\.com \| 🌐 sSuman Behera \| Data Scientist Portfolio

## Location

Bhubaneswar

## Work experience

Machine Learning Engineer — Portfolio Projects at Self Employed, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, • Built a 7\-stage Customer Churn MLOps Pipeline \(SMOTEENN \+ GradientBoosting\) achieving ROC\-AUC 0\.837, Recall 0\.813 — deployed as FastAPI on Render via Docker with GitHub Actions CI/CD • Engineered a Hybrid E\-Commerce Recommender on 2\.75M\+ interactions \(Item\-CF \+ NCF \+ GRU4Rec\); reduced Docker image from 11\.5 GB → 434 MB enabling production deployment • Fine\-tuned Weighted RoBERTa for fake news detection — F1 improved 65\.5% \(0\.3423 → 0\.5664\) over TF\-IDF baseline; benchmarked 5 models with MLflow; deployed on Hugging Face Spaces • Tools used across all projects: PyTorch, Scikit\-learn, FastAPI, Docker, MLflow, DVC, GitHub Actions, Render, Hugging Face

## Education

Master of Computer Applications, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology \(GIET\)

Bachelor of Science, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Divine Degree College, Nayagarh

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