Akshay Kumar Gidveer
Kalaburagi
Summary
Creative data scientist with a passion for innovative problem-solving in IT. Proven skills in implementing creative ideas and driving project success. Seeking challenging data science role to apply expertise, gain knowledge, and contribute to impactful projects while fueling personal and professional growth.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Blossom Social
Vancouver
07.2024 - Current
- Social Media Post Recommendation System: Developed a recommendation engine that achieved a 2-3x increase in user interaction metrics, including likes and comments.
- Post Similarity Model: Implemented a real-time post recommendation system using Natural Language Processing (NLP) based on user interaction data to suggest similar content.
- NSFW Image Detection: Designed and deployed a model to automatically detect and block NSFW images uploaded to the platform, ensuring content compliance.
- Push Notification Strategy Using Machine Learning: Leveraged machine learning algorithms to optimise and personalise push notification strategies, enhancing user engagement and retention.
Senior Associate Data Scientist
Paytm
Bangalore
04.2023 - 07.2024
- Paytm Banner Duplication Detection API : Designed and implemented a scalable API service using Python Flask and HTML / CSS to deduplicate promotional banners with OCR and text similarity, ensuring a unique user experience for Paytm.
- LangLocalAI : Built a multilingual translation tool for Indian languages with focus on transliteration of business metrics and Streamlit interface for user-friendly content localization (BLEU 45-50).
- AI Analyst : Developed interactive AI analyst using Gemini & ChatGPT for data exploration & analysis automation via natural language queries in user-uploaded CSVs (Langchain, Pandas, Pandas AI & Streamlit).
- Hyper-Personalisation Automated Ad Creative Generation : Designed AI system for personalized ad banner creation using customer data, Stable Diffusion for image generation,GANs for template variations, and text-to-image for offer visualization.
- Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) : Developed and deployed real-time and offline customer engagement solutions impacting 150M customers, achieving a 30% increase in CTR and 2% transaction lift month on month and driving around 50-60% of daily marketing impressions share on app homepage.
Data Scientist
Paytm
Bangalore
07.2021 - 03.2023
- Built scalable data pipelines : Processed 500GB of data daily for 300 million customers using PySpark and SQL, ensuring efficient handling and analysis.
- Developed recommender system and automation: Created a Paytm category recommender system (ALS method) and automated system for tasks, model features, and predictions, achieving cost optimization and streamlined workflow.
- Cylinder Reorder Optimization : Leveraged machine learning (Random Forest, Gradient Descent Boosting, K-means) to develop a customer cylinder reorder propensity model, enabling targeted app notifications that increased engagement and conversion rates.
- Unveiled customer personas: Performed customer profiling on 220 million users across various Paytm services, identifying 13 distinct personas based on over 1000 features and key characteristics.
- Empowered targeted marketing: Leveraged persona insights to empower the growth team with personalized offers, messaging, and creatives for specific customer segments, leading to enhanced user targeting and personalization strategies.
Education
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Data Science - Data Science
University of Arizona
Arizona, US03-2024
B.E. in Information Science And Engineering - Information Science
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Bengaluru08-2021
Skills
Programming Languages: Python MySQL - PySpark Scala (Basics) ElasticSearch (Basics) HiveQL BigQuery Flask StreamLit
Data Science Tools:
Pandas OpenCV Pillow Matplotlib Seaborn Tableau GoogleSheets/Excel NLP Machine learning Algorithms -
Deep learning Framework (PyTorch etc) Computer Vision Devops Basics(AWS cloud)
Al Tools: Experience with Google AI LLMs Generative Al (GenAl) - ChatGPT LLAMA LangChain GAN models Style Transfer Stable Diffusion
Accomplishments
- Artistic achievements : Earned recognition in various art competitions, including 4 National level, 10 State level, and 8 District level prizes.
- College Art Team Head : Led the Art team in my college coordinating art-related initiatives, events, and projects.
- Member of Art Clubs : Contributed to art clubs organizing numerous free art and painting workshops during college, fostering the growth of budding artists.
Certification
- Internship : Data science intern at Paytm | Machine Learning internship from Verzeo.
- Certifications : Python boot camp from Udemy | Machine learning certificate from Microsoft | Problem solving certificate from hacker-rank | Python language certification from hacker-rank
Timeline
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Blossom Social
07.2024 - Current
Senior Associate Data Scientist
Paytm
04.2023 - 07.2024
Data Scientist
Paytm
07.2021 - 03.2023
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Data Science - Data Science
University of Arizona
B.E. in Information Science And Engineering - Information Science
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
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