Praveen Kumar Jha
New Delhi
Summary
Experienced technology leader with a track record of designing and scaling robust, data-driven systems. Co-founder and CTO of GAMP, successfully built a gaming platform that attracted over 150,000 users and secured $1.25 million in pre-seed capital from a micro VC. Implemented advanced matchmaking using gaming APIs and introduced innovative blockchain technologies like zero-knowledge TLS (zk-TLS). Expertise lies in microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), TDD, and CI/CD. Strong background in Big Data analytics, predictive modeling, NLP, and machine learning, achieved a significant 50% reduction in NPAs in MSME lending. Well-versed in Linux systems and actively contributed to open-source frameworks such as Redis and Django.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
CTO, CO-FOUNDER
GAMP
06.2022 - Current
- Ideated, architected, and launched GAMP, successfully scaling the platform to over 150,000 active users.
- Led a team of 12+ engineers and developers, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Built and implemented a robust matchmaking system leveraging public data infrastructure and gaming APIs, enhancing user engagement and competitive gameplay.
- Developed and deployed an innovative zero-knowledge TLS (zk-TLS) based system, significantly enhancing user privacy and security.
- Managed full technology lifecycle from conceptualization through implementation, driving platform growth and ensuring operational excellence.
SDE-II (Data Science)
FarEye Technologies
04.2020 - 04.2022
- Ideated and Initiated the ETA project for single drop account using machine learning techniques and brought the accuracy above 95% in accounts.
- Worked towards generation of auto fixtures of data for machine learning related endeavors. This reduced our training time by about 20-25% which enabled us in rolling out new models bi-weekly.
- Managed model monitoring and model governance of the developed solution.
- Leading the panel for hiring interviews (100+ interviews) for ML/AI and Python skills and mentor new hires
- Worked with lots of regression algorithms like gradient boosting regressor, SVR, linear regression.
- Worked on route optimization problems for drivers and consigners
Team Lead(Data Science)
Qred
10.2019 - 03.2020
- Created a team of 5 person in India Development team
- Built a MVC framework for marketing team
- Led the operations work for development team
- Used loopback framework on node.js for building third party integration service.
- Worked on small projects regarding bidding system on golang
- Tested and validated models for accuracy of predictions in outcomes of interest.
- Institutionalized creation of assets in unstructured data analytics leading to novel insights for multiple verticals.
- Direct liaison between company and third-party solution providers for implementing business solutions at scale.
- Customer DNA: Created overall persona of customer based on transactional behavior, across all merchants and products. Impact - 25% added lift in conversion for product teams.
- Ran statistical analyses within software to process large datasets.
Lead Software Engineer(Data)
Ziploan
09.2018 - 10.2019
- Created a Bank Statement Analysis engine that works on the principle of TF-IDF and Multi Layer Perceptron.
- Worked on Exploratory Data Analysis to provide insights into the loan portfolio and suggested key improvements onto them
- Facilitated banking partnerships for co-lending by providing them technical solutions for analysis of their loan portfolio
- Worked on the data science modelling approaches for loan decision system/credit rating/credit scoring.
- Team Lead for banking analysis engine that served the company's goal of reducing operational cost by 60%.
- Developed a SAAS based banking solution for external financial agencies
Senior Software Engineer
Ziploan
04.2018 - 09.2018
- Established an SMS-based intelligence system for lead optimization.
- Developed a topic modeling engine (Python, Gensim) to analyze loan rejection patterns, enhancing lead quality.
- Built REST APIs with Flask and PostgreSQL to provide analytical insights into bank statement analysis and SMS parsing.
- Managed AWS infrastructure and data pipelines for the loan decision model.
- Sole contributor to a custom ETL framework, significantly reducing loan turnaround time from 7 days to 1 day.
- Designed and implemented schema translators from MongoDB to Elasticsearch for real-time data synchronization.
- Significantly reduced NPAs from 17.2% to 8.2% by designing and deploying an automated loan decision model powered by advanced machine learning algorithms, enabling faster, more accurate credit assessments.
Software Engineer
Zopper
03.2017 - 03.2018
- Development Of Backend System that empowered the reporting engine for zopper retail software using Python, Flask.
- Used ElasticSearch And PostgreSql to design a query language that is simple and intuitive to understand for users , so that they can build their own report
- Designed and developed transactional and de-normalised analytical data stores for report sync.
- Worked on distributed transactions to ensure sync between data stores using SQS and SNS.
- Ansible deployment scripts to automate the deployment for the project.
- Wrote Unit Tests and configured a CI/CD pipelines using travis CI and jenkins.
Software Consultant
Zopper
09.2015 - 03.2017
- Created the API web services using django and rest framework for core services like payments, authentication and acl system
- Designed Distributed Architecture and developed crawler bots to crawl e-commerce site to get product related information from them
- Built a Pipeline for regular updation of price and other information from e-commerce players via crawling
- (Beautiful Soup and Twisted)
- Developed Catalogue Management System with media server feature backed by Amazon S3 & CloudFront.
- Implemented features such as full text search and auto-suggest capabilities that powers https://www.zopper.com
Education
Bachelors - Bachelors Technology (Computer Science Engineering
Apeejay Stya University
Gurugram07.2017
Skills
- User-Centric Design Approach
- Technical Leadership and Strategy
- Product Vision and Ideation
- Team Building and Mentorship
- Relational Databases
- Non-Relational Databases
- Python, Nodejs
- CI/CD
- Risk Management Analysis
- Predictive Data Modeling
- Financial Risk Modelling
- AI Inference Engine
Timeline
CTO, CO-FOUNDER
GAMP
06.2022 - Current
SDE-II (Data Science)
FarEye Technologies
04.2020 - 04.2022
Team Lead(Data Science)
Qred
10.2019 - 03.2020
Lead Software Engineer(Data)
Ziploan
09.2018 - 10.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Ziploan
04.2018 - 09.2018
Software Engineer
Zopper
03.2017 - 03.2018
Software Consultant
Zopper
09.2015 - 03.2017
Bachelors - Bachelors Technology (Computer Science Engineering
Apeejay Stya University
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