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LIRILKUMAR AMAL

Data scientist
Bangalore

Summary

  • Experience senior applied Data Scientist with total 8.4 Years of experience (7.2 Years as Data Scientist), Worked across Ad Tech, Quick Service Restaurants, Supply Chain, Airlines, Finance and Compliance & Legal industries.
  • Building AI Powered product which cater personalized recommendation for millions of users, built using vast range of open-source toolkit. Lead team of data scientist and engineers in designing and implementing many well tested machine learning modules.
  • Worked with product owners, customer success, business, data engineers, front end, and dev ops teams to make sure product is well deployed and various marketing campaigns are profitable and impactful.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Senior Applied AI Scientist

ZS Associates
2 2022 - Current

Played a pivotal role in building the Personlised.AI product, supporting backend operations for marketing campaigns, deploying AI modules, and training recommendation models for major QSR clients, leading to significant revenue increases.


  • Item Recommender: Developed a model to recommend top personalized products to customers.
  • Optimized Offer Recommendation: Created a system to suggest profitable offer amounts for marketing campaigns.
  • Customer Segmentation: Implemented models to segment customers for targeted marketing campaigns based on their life cycle stages.
  • Propensity Models: Built models to predict customer behavior, including churn, order, and offer redemption likelihood.
  • Market Basket Analysis: Conducted association rule mining to identify and recommend items frequently purchased together for cross-sale campaigns.
  • Look-Alike Modeling: Designed models to identify target audiences for campaigns by finding customers similar to a defined seed group.


Owned Product Deployments at Clients

  • Actively contributed to planning various marketing campaigns focused on cross sell, upsell and retention, starting from digital app adoption, customer retention and customer churn mitigation, customer stickiness and new item adoption
  • Worked with customer success team to measure campaign impact using various AB testing analytical groups.


Trained junior data scientists, machine learning engineers to scale up and sharpen their skillset.


Data Scientist

Ericsson India Global Service
10.2018 - 01.2022

Developed end to end tailor made solutions for various internal teams including services, sourcing and supply chain.


  • Signature Extraction and Identification: Developed a product for locating and extracting signatures from legal documents using classification, object detection (YOLOv5), and signature matching models.
  • Demand Forecast Product: Built a supply chain product to forecast hardware demand, optimizing production and reducing inventory costs using XG boost Regressor.
  • Code Reviewer Recommendation Tool: Designed and deployed a flask microservice offering hybrid recommender model (LightFM) to suggest reviewers for open code change requests.

System Engineer (Machine Learning)

Infosys
10.2016 - 08.2018
  • Wrote modular python ETL pipeline feeding data into machine learning models predicting water demand at reservoirs i.e., Exposed models as API using Flask to web application.

Intern

Veritas LLC (formerly Symantec)
01.2016 - 06.2016

Education

Masters in Computer Application -

MIT Pune, University of Pune
Pune, India
04.2001 -

Bachlor of Computer Application -

Veerayatan Institute of BBC And BBA
Mandvi, India
04.2001 -

Awards

Ace Award - for driving complex use case - by Ericsson India - Q3 2021

Skillset

Technical Toolkit
  • Languages & Tools: PySpark, Python, Flask, Fast API, PyTorch
  • DataBase: PostGres, SQL, Mongo DB
  • ML Ops: Git, Docker, CI/CD Basics, ML Flow, Apache Airflow, ELK ecosystem
  • Generative AI: LangChain, Prompt Engineering, Open AI Ecosystem
  • Cloud Platforms: GCP, Azure


Machine Learning and AI areas
  • EDA: Univariate/Bivariate analysis, correlation, statistical summary, plotting, outlier detection
  • Preprocessing: Outlier treatment, sampling, feature engineering, Feature importance and model exploitability
  • Algorithms: Linear/Logistic regression, K-Means, Gradient boosting, Decision Trees, Random Forest, XGB, Market basket analysis, Association Rule mining, Transfer learning for object detection
  • Specialized Areas: Recommendation systems, Ad Tech, Deep learning (NN, CNN) Models, AB Testing, Personalization recommendations, Customer Analysis


Certification

Essentials of big data, Hadoop, Spark, RDD (certificate): Coursera. - Dec 2019

Timeline

Introduction to MongoDB for developers (Certificate): MongoDB University - July 2019
12-2019
Essentials of big data, Hadoop, Spark, RDD (certificate): Coursera. - Dec 2019
07-2019

Data Scientist

Ericsson India Global Service
10.2018 - 01.2022

System Engineer (Machine Learning)

Infosys
10.2016 - 08.2018

Intern

Veritas LLC (formerly Symantec)
01.2016 - 06.2016

Masters in Computer Application -

MIT Pune, University of Pune
04.2001 -

Bachlor of Computer Application -

Veerayatan Institute of BBC And BBA
04.2001 -

Senior Applied AI Scientist

ZS Associates
2 2022 - Current
LIRILKUMAR AMALData scientist