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Shashank Singh

Staff Data Scientist
Bengaluru

Summary

Profile Summary:

Result-oriented professional with 10+ years of total experience in delivering valuable insights and creating models through applying data science and advanced data-driven methods to increase efficiency and accuracy.

Worked in Construction, Cybersecurity, Fin-tech and Retail domain.

Data Scientist familiar with gathering and understanding requirements of clients & other multiple stakeholders followed by translation into functional specifications as well as provisioning of suitable solutions.

Deployed ML models that remarkably improved organizational decision-making capabilities.

Proficient in machine learning and deep learning skills for multiple applications including computer vision and NLP.

Possess good knowledge of data science and analytics environments; modeling tools and emerging analytical tools.

Organized team leader builds positive rapport, inspires trust and guides teams toward achievement of organizational goals.

Excellent trainer and mentor.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Staff Data Scientist

Trellix
Bengaluru, Karnataka
04.2021 - Current

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Created different models for maximum coverage of detections and deployed in client(light weight, Random Forest) and cloud(full, XGBoost) for Endpoint Detection(XDR/EDR).
  • Created models for Malware detection,DNS tunneling, data theft and other use cases in NDR/EDR.
  • Applied improvised sampling technique which reduced sample size from trillions of samples to 7-16M samples for training.
  • Reduced time for model building and deployment by making automated model (re-)training and deployment, i.e. MLOps, using MLFlow/ Amazon Sagemaker from 5 weeks to 4 days.
  • Solved and handled existing FPs and model performance issues by feature engineering. Analyzed and removed features which are skewed towards one class.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies(LLM) and assess potential applications within organization's infrastructure and future projects.
  • Coached and mentored junior data scientists on Data Science and feature engineering techniques.
  • Lead 3 data scientists and 2 software engineers.

Achievements:

  • Reduced company's cost and time in re-training models which resulted in $2M dollars save.
  • Enhanced model efficacy for 40,000 customers by reducing FPs with better models.

Data Scientist

McAfee Software India Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
12.2019 - 04.2021

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Gathering, cleaning and analyzing data from different sources by collaborating with stakeholders.
  • Created Models for classifying rules and scripts required to complete investigations in Python(Random Forest)
  • Improved existing algorithm by fine tuning and creating algorithm for prioritizing tenants based on priorities to get processed.

Achievements:

  • Helped company to increase PSAT scores by 1.3 by analyzing major issues and concerns from clients.

Lead Data Scientist

PrimeSoft IP Solutions Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2019 - 11.2019

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Created Models for classifying non categorized transactions in bank's account statement such as salary, EMI, credit etc. in Python.
  • Lead and mentored junior data scientists on modelling.

Achievements:

  • Company got few Fin-tech/banking projects based on POC done on bank's statements

Data Scientist

Causeway Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka
5 2018 - 07.2019

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Created Models for getting future amount of items and cost to buyer and supplier (construction domain) by implementing Machine Learning(linear regression, Random Forest and ARIMA).
  • Created dashboard using tableau to show changes in price for raw materials region wise.
  • Lead team for creating end to end POC and making it to production.

Achievements:

  • 16% growth of product in sales for company

Data Analyst

Sears India
Bengaluru, Karnataka
04.2016 - 05.2018

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Created reports and dashboard for presenting to management.
  • Worked with different teams(Content and Search) and applied machine learning/data science in retail specific domain Analyzed and gained insights from data.
  • Worked in (NLP) to get Canonical Brand of specified brand as Named Entity Recognition(NER) for third party content to use in 'Search'

Achievements:

  • Increased organization's product growth by 14%.

Senior Software Engineer

Capgemini
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12.2013 - 04.2016

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Enhanced loan and ledger web page for GE Capitals by using spring batch and automated flow of approvers.

Education

B.Tech. (CS&E) -

Amity University
Noida
01.2009 - 2013.04

Skills

Scikit-Learn

Timeline

Staff Data Scientist

Trellix
04.2021 - Current

Data Scientist

McAfee Software India Private Limited
12.2019 - 04.2021

Lead Data Scientist

PrimeSoft IP Solutions Private Limited
08.2019 - 11.2019

Data Analyst

Sears India
04.2016 - 05.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Capgemini
12.2013 - 04.2016

B.Tech. (CS&E) -

Amity University
01.2009 - 2013.04

Data Scientist

Causeway Technologies
5 2018 - 07.2019

Previous Experience

  • Primesoft IP Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore, Data Scientist, 08/01/19, 11/01/19
  • Causeway Tecnologies, Bangalore, Data Scientist, 05/01/18, 06/01/19
  • Sears India, Bangalore, Data Analyst, 04/01/16, 05/01/18
  • IGATE Global Solutions Ltd., Chennai, Senior Software Engineer, 12/01/13, 04/01/16

Target Job

Data Scientist

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 07/19/92
Shashank SinghStaff Data Scientist