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Nikhil Kumar Jha

Data Scientist
I believe I am a creative, and product-focused data science professional who enjoys developing end-to-end data-driven solutions in order to make the user or customer experience better. I enjoy working in a collaborative environment which generally brings out the best in others and myself, to address problems and brainstorm effective solutions, but I am also equally competent as an individual contributor. In the past, I have been praised for being a quick learner and having a problem solving attitude, with an ability to even work well during challenging deadlines. Professionally, I have 7 plus years of work experience, while working with real-world challenges, both in the industry and academic settings. In the data science area, I have been working with projects like personalised recommendations, time-series forecasting and classification, NLP use cases like sentiment analysis and text classification, computer vision projects like classifying images and detecting their quality, performing fraud detection, and developing interactive chatbots.
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TeamViewer GmbH
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University of Paderborn
Berlin, Germany

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
    Not open to opportunities
  • Profession
    Data Engineer
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    6-10 years (4-6 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 1-5 people
  • Skills
    Python
    C++
    Docker
    Linux
    Tensorflow (Keras)
    PyTorch
    SQL/MySQL
    Node.js
    NLTK
    Git
    Tableau
    R
    ETL Pipeline
    Dask
    Agile Development
    Numpy
    Redshift
    PostgreSQL
    Looker
    Tableau Desktop
    Pandas
    Matplotlib
    Selenium
    NLP
    spacy
    OpenCV
    Bitbucket
    Jira . Scrum . Agile
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
    German
    Intermediate
  • Highest level of education
    Master

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Data Scientist
  • Desired work locations
    Germany
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

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Senior Data Scientist

Oct 2021 - Present
- Leading and coordinating development of different cross-team BI and Data Science projects. - Develop, implement, and automating deployment of ETL workflows using DBT and Redshift DWH. - Competitive Intelligence - crawl and analyze the data from competitors to drive insights using NLP. - Analyzing feature usage data to understand customer behavior, predict conversion, and lead generation. - Detecting product's commercial usage using machine learning to push for free-to-paid conversion. - Generated country embeddings using relational data to identify geographic/demographic resemblance. - Clustering 200Mn+ users to tune marketing campaigns and generate sales opportunities. - Conducting hiring interviews, providing mentorship and onboarding junior colleagues.
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Data Scientist

Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
1 yr 4 mos
- Established a central framework and delivered end-to-end pipelines for 7+ ML projects into production. - Recommender systems - Session-based (RNN), Collaborative Filtering (ALS) and Content-based. - Product matching for 20Mn+ hotels using Fuzzy Pattern, NLP algorithms, and rule-based models. - Time-series forecasting of hotel prices for next 90 days across 500+ cities using LSTM, ARIMA models. - Customer journey mapping to understand user preferences before finalizing the purchase on website. - Classify 13,000+ incoming mails every week using Text vectorization (NLP) and SGD classifier. - Identifying 78% of the booking and voucher frauds using a random forest anomaly detection model. - Created a RASA chatbot to help customers find answers to booking related questions and requests.
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Research Scientist

Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
2 yrs 6 mos
- Deep Q-learning to train an autonomous car to navigate in an Industry 4.0 environment. - Statistical and deep learning models for low latency (~3.8s) anomaly detection on acquired sensor data. - Developed, tested, deployed, and managed continuous delivery and automation pipeline for this solution. - Interactive visual explanations for results to understand, root-cause, and fix anomalous events. - Deployed neural network models on resource-constrained devices using connection pruning strategies. - Compressed computer vision deep learning models to 40% of original size with only a 6% accuracy drop. - Presented technical papers to summarize the work and findings at the university and partner company.
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Senior Research & Development Engineer

Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
2 yrs 8 mos
- Developed emulation solutions - supporting 7+ clients, with a focus on system-level design / verification. - Managed a team of 2 and involved in hiring resources, onboarding, and delivering training workshops.

Education

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Master of Science (MS)
Computer Engineering
2017 - 2020
Activities and societies
Elected Student Parliamentarian. Responsibility includes: - student semester tickets - electing and controlling the ASTa - deciding the budgeting of the student bodies
Description
Major focus: Intelligent systems and Data Science Embedded Machine Learning: 1-year long Project Group. 3 Research / Survey papers in Machine Learning area. Projects: 1. Master Thesis - Deep learning for anomaly detection in autonomous systems Realized state-of-the-art deep learning models to carry out anomaly detection on time-series data from the autonomous race car. Perform hyperparameter optimization, neural architecture search, unsupervised feature selection and create interactive visualisations 2. Predictive Maintenance in Autonomous Systems Incorporation of ML algorithms for anomaly detection in an Industry 4.0 project - GMMs, Clustering, Decision Trees, ARIMA, etc 3. Embedded Machine Learning Predictive maintenance for real-life industrial use-cases. Compressed the models and deployed it on Xilinx PYNQ board. 4. Sparsity in Neural Networks Research on sparsity algorithms to prune and shrink large neural network models and run them on embedded platforms. 5. Face Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) Constructed and evaluated the state of the art models for face detection and recognition - LeNet, AlexNet, VGG, GoogLeNet, ResNet. 6. Chatbot using Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) Fabricated a naive chatbot trained on the Wikipedia corpus to respond to the user queries. 7. Face Generator using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Deep Convolutional GAN to generate realistic looking faces. Trained on the celebrities face dataset. 8. Neural Style Transfer Compose images in the style of the artistic image using deep learning model. 9. Detection of Malicious URLs using Autoencoders Realized a URL classification model design using Deep Autoencoder and filter suspicious URLs. 10. Credit Card Fraud Detection and Prevention using Deep Learning (DL) Deep autoencoder trained on the Kaggle Finance dataset for credit card transactions use-case. 11. Sentiment Analysis of Trip Advisor Reviews: Natural Language Processing (NLP) Used Bag of words model to analyze the sentiments in the feedback provided by the customers. 12. Facial Emotion Recognition: Inception Network and other popular CNNs Face detection followed by emotion recognition using CNNs on the bounded face detected using OpenCV. 13. Object Recognition on Android: Tensorflow Lite Models The model classifies the objects shown on the android device’s rear camera in real-time. 14. Simulating Self Driving Car: Udacity Nanodegree Engaged with computer vision and deep learning to automotive problems, like detecting lane lines, predicting steering angles, etc. 15. Verilog HDL Compiler: Computer Science Project Devised a compiler to achieve the lexical, syntactical, and semantic analysis of a Verilog HDL code.
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Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
Electronics and Communication Engineering
2011 - 2015
81/100 GPA
Activities and societies
An active member of IETE and IEEE Student branch, where I was responsible for organizing and coordinating technical workshops.
Description
Major focus: Microelectronics