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title: "Vikas Kumar - AVP Data Science in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Vikas Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Senior Data Scientist \| Machine Learning, Data Science

## About

Experienced Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in Information Extraction\. Skilled in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Analytical Skills, Linear Regression, Statistical Data Analysis, and Statistical Modeling\. Professional with a certificate focused on machine learning, data science from the International School of Engineering \(INSOFE\)\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

github copilot

replit

githubcopilot

huggingface

Firecrawl

## Work experience

AVP Data Science at Citi India, Jan 2026 \- Present · 7 mo, Bangalore

Staff Data scientist at Angel One, Mar 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 9 mo, Bangalore

Senior Data Scientist at Pocket FM, Jan 2023 \- Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Content and recommendations

Data Scientist at Gojek, Jul 2022 \- Nov 2022 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Ads And Promotion Platform, Gojek Bangalore • Implemented a central store to promote re\-usability of offline features across multiple use cases and act as SSOT for offline model training and online feature serving\. – Used GitLab CI/CD to automate various functions such as BigQuery table creation, table deletion, updation of feature catalog, etc\. – Used clockwork\(Airflow Based\), an internal tool, to schedule daily jobs to refresh features\. • Proposed and Designed ML architecture to introduce optimisation of bookings, in addition to clicks, in text search ads ranking\. This will help in achieving high return on ad spend for ad merchants and thus resulting in higher retention\. • Designed and analysed multiple A/B experiments\. This includes aligning on appropriate primary and secondary metrics, sample size calculation to ensure statistically significant results and hypothesis testing on observed data\.

Data Scientist at Infrrd, Jul 2018 \- Jun 2022 · 4 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, • Worked on intelligent Data Capture team, Created ML architecture for training and testing loop for document information extraction from scratch to augment existing rule\-based system\. Bangalore • Worked on ML models to augment existing rule\-based system\. • Owned End to End ML module from proof of concept to commercialization\(Production\)\. • Applied statistical and algebraic techniques to interpret key points from gathered data\. • Developed data\-gathering and reporting structures from the ground up and strategized methods capitalizing on system features\. • Used statistical techniques to analyse and quantify data annotation errors\. • Object Detection on document images using CNN\-based models\. • Document classifier based on text and image features\.

Data Scientist @ Factory and Fleet Analytics \(Industrial IoT\) at Tata Group, May 2017 \- Feb 2018 · 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Project Associate at Indian Institute of Science, Sep 2015 \- Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore, Solar Collector and Receiver \- optical and thermal design, data analysis, inference of data\.

Research Engineer at Alstom, Nov 2010 \- Aug 2013 · 2 y 9 mo, Vadodara

## Education

certificate, machine learning, data science, International School of Engineering \(INSOFE\)

Master of Science \(M\.Sc\.\), Mechanical Engineering, Masdar Institute for Science and Technology

## Public links

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

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