Experience
Founder | Coach: DataJourneyHQ
(Jan 2025 - Present)
https://datajourneyhq.com/ : Open Source LLM powered tool-kit builder
Independent Consultant
(Apr 2024 - Present)
Spearheading collaborative initiatives at the intersection of business, AI design thinking, data engineering, and open source.
Coaching & Mentoring to build reproducible data workflows.
Partnering with organizations to enhance open-source developer experiences, focusing on scalable and responsible AI solutions.
All about Backpacking / Diving
(Always-Always)
Trekking in the Himalayas (I have developed a deeper appreciation for sustainability)
Diving across the world, participating in marine conservation efforts & actively volunteering with local communities.
Becoming a dive professional has humbled me, I lack words to define this experience (soon maybe...)
Data Scientist - Voltron Data
(Nov 2022 - March 2024)
Building not just KPI(s) or metrics but the infrastructure around to support. In this role I shifted to the world of R, working on core internal product dashboards and open-source metrics.
Revamped existing open source metrics dashboards, introduced modularity & practical env management, iterated on the KPI(s) & design based on feedback from stakeholders, and introduced interactivity, automation and alerting via GitHub actions.
Collaborated on elevating DevEx on conbench, Language-independent Continuous Benchmarking (CB) Framework
Pouring continuous efforts in aligning/introducing feature-driven work for core product reporting
Data Engineer - Quansight
(Sep 2021 - Sep 2022)
Contributing to open source (NumPy and SciPy)
Developing data pipelines, testing and documenting
Developing rapid dashboarding prototype using Panel & holoviz toolkit
Contributed to next-gen CLI for SciPy (Implementation details)
Data Engineer - Twilio
(Feb 2021 - August 2021)
Worked on (RSBI migration) decommissioning redshift and migrating to presto and implementing regionalisation.
Developed Apache Hudi POC to migrate existing source systems
Worked on the design to implement Regionalisation for data, adhering to data privacy policy
Backend Engineer - Continual Engine
(Aug 2019 - Dec 2020)
Developed Backend solutions for online learning platform (myAthina.com) B2B & B2C and Education from scratch.
myAthina this year won the prestigious 2020 Brandon Hall Group "Excellence in Technology" Bronze Award for the category ‘Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses’.
Worked on In-built gamification to foster learning and healthy competition and to drive engagement.
Developed end to end features like Dashboards featuring skill map for any given organization and delivering insights.
Developed course management pipeline, allowing instructors to dynamically create, customize, and organize course catalogs.
Built hosting and rendering solutions for multimedia with Django REST Architecture
Created an automated pipeline for database maintenance
Developed custom assessment/assignments and grading systems.
Developed optimizations techniques and tools
Worked with third-party APIs and its integration with Django Rest Framework (Eg - Vimeo, Anti-Plagiarism tools, SendGrid)