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ML at PayPal | Ex - Bain and Co, INDMoney, Cars24

About

IIT Kanpur graduate experienced in developing data driven solutions for prediction and classification problems using Big Data, Machine Learning and AI. A movie buff at heart with a soft spot for all things sci-fi

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

hugging face

langchain

langgraph

OpenAI Agents SDK

Work experience

MTS-1 Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru

Lead Data Scientist at CARS24, Nov 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the development of Demand Forecasting and Pricing Models for sourcing and selling pre-owned cars in Cars24 Australia Route Optimization - Developed job allocation model using Linear Sum Assignment algorithm that minimizes overall travel distances for Cars24 technicians who need to travel to car sellers' home for inspection of the condition of the car

Senior Associate, Data Science at Bain & Company, Mar 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Promotions Optimizer - Developed demand forecasting model and price optimizer to minimize cost during discount periods using LightGBM and Hyperopt

Lead Data Science and ML at INDwealth.in, Apr 2019 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr, Gurgaon, India, Lead team of 4 to develop - Dynamic Asset allocation model - predict probability of market being overvalued/undervalued and thus shifting the investments in portfolio to different assets to balance risk and return. Backtesting results show 3.5 percent extra returns compared to static portfolio Prediction of mutual fund returns - Achieved over 91% accuracy for 5 year returns prediction for Mutual Funds in Indian market

Software Engineer - Machine Learning at INDwealth.in, Aug 2018 - Mar 2019 · 8 mos, Gurgaon, India, Developed Mutual funds recommendation and portfolio rebalancing engine to provide wealth management advisory at scale. ( Feature engineering, feature selection, Random Forest Regression) Worked on data visualisation APIs for in depth analysis of risk and return in a user's portfolio. (python, django framework)

Data Scientist at Cogneau Systems Private Limited, Oct 2017 - Jun 2018 · 9 mos, Gurgaon, India, • Reduced operations cost by 30% for a logistics client in Malaysia by developing an optimized DC network using Density Based Clustering Algorithm DBSCAN • Implemented Genetic Algorithm in company’s business intelligence software for faster search of most relevant features in client’s data • Developed Sales Forecasting model using Machine Learning for an international FMCG • Developed a Bayesian Network model to determine the strength and flow of influence of various factors on sales and delivery time • Developed Delivery Time (TAT) Prediction model for deliveries across India for a logistics company with a mean absolute error of 0.6 days

Data Scientist at Simpli5d technologies, Nov 2016 - Sep 2017 · 10 mo, Gurgaon

Decision Scientist at Mu Sigma, Aug 2014 - Feb 2015 · 6 mo, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Hansraj Public School

Public links

gvivek2692.github.io: https://gvivek2692.github.io/