• Summary

    Shanky is passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics intrigue him and he loves playing with numbers. Algorithms are what he loves to design and giving solutions to people is what he believes in.
    He'd like to be a solution provider rather than a scripter or another IT nerd who codes.
    He loves heavy metal, his nation and giving back to the society, Shanky believes, is the task of every engineer; Shanky would like to be that engineer.
    What Shanky is currently up to:
    After an insanely successful 3 year stint with Scandid, where he built a monument of
    AI based solutions for E-commerce and travel retail, he has now started working with Seagate. His objective is to recreate the magic of data driven decision making he is known to, and drive process and business optimisations in the Computer Hardware manufacturing industry.

  • Experience

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    AdElement

    Software Engineer Nov 2015 - Mar 2016

    • Data Analysis using various Big data frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.
    • Scalable machine learning, Image and Text Processing and Optimisations.
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    Nextremer Solutions

    Lead Scientist (AI and Machine Learning) May 2016 - November - 2016

    • Leading the research at Nextremer - India's AI Team in implementing various AI and Machine Learning related projects.
    • Leading projects in various sub-domains of Machine Learning.
    • Deep Learning for Speech recognition in Indic Languages.
    • Machine translation.
    • Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining for developing a news-based application.
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    Scandid

    Lead Data Scientist. November 2016 - June 2019

    • Consulting, leading and developing the Machine Learning team at Scandid. 
    • Developing models and product-driven solutions that drive the e-commerce industry ranging from EntityRecognition to Chatbots, from Search Optimizations to laying foundations of feature-based and user-based recommendation engines and vision-based solutions.
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    Seagate Technology

    Data Science Solutions Architect. July 2019 - Present

    • Developing scalable Machine Learning solutions across various business verticals in the Hard-drive manufacturing domain. 
  • WHAT I BELIEVE IN

    Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  • Skills

    Artificial Intelligence

    Machine Learning

    Deep Learning

    Python

    C/C++

    R Programming Language

  • Education

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    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

    Research Project, Computer Science and Engineering 2013 - 2014

    • Project Development: NLP assisted IDE for C/C++ programming.
      Use Statistical NLP techniques and employ structure editing properties to learn user-specific typing patterns and provide development assistance, overcoming user-specific typos and supporting a customised programming convention.
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    University of Pune

    Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree 2011 - 2015

    • Elected Class Representative for 4 consecutive years 2011 onwards.
    • Elected President for ACES (Association of Computer Engineering Students) Student body at Sinhgad Academy of Engineering (Kondhwa Bk.), Pune in 3rd Year.
    • Also elected coordinator for Computer Society of India’s technical activities at the Sinhgad Academy of Engineering (Kondhwa Bk.), Pune and organized workshops on “Web Development using Open Source” and “Cyber Forensics”.
    • Selected as the Coordinator/IT head for TECHTONIC- 2013 (Annual Tech Fest of Sinhgad Institutes in Pune).
    • Former Core-Team member and Public Relations head of the Google Student Club, SAE, Pune.
    • Have lot of experience at organizing and managing various events and workshops.
    • Designed a Programming language called PreMat along-with Anikit Sahni that computes mathematical expressions currently working on optimizing it and making it more user-friendly.
    • Activities: Computer Society of India, Association of Computer Engineering Students
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    The Bishop's School, Pune

    1997 - 2008

    • Winner of BQC in the year 2003 and runner up in 2002.
    • Represented the school at various debates in the city for the years 2006-2008 and participated in intra-school debates and elocution since 2002.
    • Inter-School team member for Quizzes for the years 2005-2008 participating in various Quizzes such as the Green Olympiad, NIE Fundamental Quiz, The TCS IT WIZ, etc.
    • Honors student of ICSE 2008.
    • Member of the U-14 Inter-School cricket team for the year 2005-2006 and also awarded L.G. Clinical Cricketer by Ravi Shastri in the same year.
    • Also participated in various Essay-Writing competitions such as the Albert Barrow Creative Writing Competition and SIFL Essay Writing Competition.
    • Participated in a no. of Dance & Drama performances in Social Gatherings, etc.
    • Activities: Debate Team, Quiz Club and Quiz Team, Inter-School Cricket Team, Environment Club, Computer Club, Drama Club, Scouts
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