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Jul 20, 2023 First iteration of Document analysis project done. This will allow 7.5 million people aged 16-22 vital access to the financial system by just scanning their Birth Certificate. Ecstatic!!!
May 10, 2023 I’ve been promoted to the role of Assistant Lead Engineer, Data Science and Machine Learning! 🎉
Apr 20, 2023 POC done for first project involving computer vision- Document Information Extraction. Will allow users to signup with Birth Certificates instead of NIDs. Key Challenges- Birth Certificates not homogenous, are bilingual and not enough data.
Oct 27, 2022 Did some detective work! Identified organized fraud rings by analyzing transaction graphs of known offenders. Combined Neo4j Cypher queries and Louvain community detection algorithm 🕵🏼 Neo4j is a beautiful tool, Cypher is expressive!
Jun 11, 2022 Rebuilt our system for Automated training, batch inference and experiment tracking from scratch with Airflow, Mlflow and Postgres! Integrated event notification capability to Mail and Slack.
Dec 15, 2021 loan project had a soft launch today, it’s on national news.
Oct 7, 2021 Designed an income score metric for loan eligibility that takes into account purchase categories, relative position within that category and weighted by the category’s perceived position in Maslow’s Hierarchy(of needs).
Jun 7, 2021 Working on one of the largest automated micro-loan disbursment projects in the 🌏!
Feb 7, 2021 Done with a project where I used Graphsage to generate node embeddings from a graph with 100 million+ edges. For the first time, downstream models were provided network aware features. Extracted data with SQL and converted to Matrix Market format. Used Gunrock library for GPU accelration.
May 7, 2020 Working from home. Delivered project with a reduced scope due to covid 19. For each past campaign, applied Causal Inference techniques to identify Conditional Average Treatment Effect of campaign exposure and treatment magnitude. Identified well performing types.
Jan 11, 2020 Started R&D on Uplift Modelling and Causal Inference to optimize marketing campaigns.
Aug 12, 2019 Delivered my first project! Extracted requirements from business teams to reduce 200+ columns to relevant 60+. Then applied TSNE for dimensionality reduction and visualization. Finally applied DBSCAN and Gausiian Mixture Models to cluster into 5 groups.
May 1, 2019 Joined Bkash as an ML Engineer for the newly formed Data Science team. Difficult choice to let go of the SWE role. Thought process → ML(exciting)+ Bkash(high impact) > prestige(Samsung) + compensation(SWE). Might regret later?
Mar 6, 2019 Was offered a Software Engineering role at Samsung R&D ✨ The most coveted and only international tech setup in my country!