Experience

Gradient Advisors

• New Zealand
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Founder & CEO

  • May 2023 - Present

  Leverage AI experience and a proven track record of success. For the last 14 yrs, we have been doing end-to-end AI - helping organizations build AI that brings ROI - revenue and Market dominance. Gradient Advisors helps clients get clarity into the end-to-end data and AI monetization strategy. Our clients trust us to guide them in implementing systems & frameworks that facilitate and implement this strategy. We provide expertise in guiding them around the corners, removing roadblocks and avoiding setbacks. If you want to get the most from your AI efforts, we should talk. Our clients include early-stage startups, mid-size organizations and large MNCs Reach out for help with: AI Product Strategy and Delivery AI Strategy Data & AI Organization Building and Scaling Incubating and Grooming world-class AI teams AI/Product Evangelization and Positioning Pls visit www.gradient-advisors.ai or DM me for more information Skills: AI Strategy & Vision · AI Product Strategy · Thought Leadership in AI · Data Science · Machine Learning · Data Product Strategy · Data Strategy · Digital Transformation · AI - People & Team Management Consulting · Organizational Development · Strategic Planning · GTM · Sales · End to end AI Consulting Show less



MentorPass

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• AI Mentor

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Helping organisations leverage AI Helping organisations leverage AI



T-Hub

• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• AI Mentor

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Guiding very early stage startups leverage AI Machine Learning · Data Product Strategy · Data Strategy · Digital Transformation · AI - People & Team Management Consulting · Organizational Development · Strategic Planning · GTM · Sales · End to end AI Consulting Guiding very early stage startups leverage AI Machine Learning · Data Product Strategy · Data Strategy · Digital Transformation · AI - People & Team Management Consulting · Organizational Development · Strategic Planning · GTM · Sales · End to end AI Consulting


Stealth Startup
• India
• Financial Services
• AI Advisor & Board Director

  • Apr 2023 - Present


nasscom

• India
• Information Technology & Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Mentor DeepTech

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Helping Deep Tech start-ups get the AI piece right Skills: AI - Vision & Strategy · Technical Modelling · AI - GTM & Sales · AI - Engineering & AI Ops · Roadmapping - Strategic, Product, Technology · AI - People & Team Mgmt · Artificial Intelligence (AI) Helping Deep Tech start-ups get the AI piece right Skills: AI - Vision & Strategy · Technical Modelling · AI - GTM & Sales · AI - Engineering & AI Ops · Roadmapping - Strategic, Product, Technology · AI - People & Team Mgmt · Artificial Intelligence (AI)



Antler

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor, AI

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Guiding Antlers' AI startups on AI Skills: AI - Vision & Strategy · Technical Modelling · AI - GTM & Sales · AI - Engineering & AI Ops · Roadmapping - Strategic, Product, Technology · AI - People & Team Mgmt · Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guiding Antlers' AI startups on AI Skills: AI - Vision & Strategy · Technical Modelling · AI - GTM & Sales · AI - Engineering & AI Ops · Roadmapping - Strategic, Product, Technology · AI - People & Team Mgmt · Artificial Intelligence (AI)



Vahan Inc.

• United States

• Chief AI Officer

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  As the head of AI, I am responsible for building capability to win and execute AI projects. I lead 2 teams at Vahan: * ML team working on problems in NLP and Vision* DS team working on understanding and analysing user data

• Advisor - Machine Learning

  • Sep 2018 - Mar 2020

  Helping Vahan built the AI piece



Various

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Advisor - AI/ML

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  Advising & Consulting a range of organizations in India and US on acing AI - right from vision, setting up AI function, modeling, data, go-to-market strategy for AI products, creating AI road maps, building high-performance AI teams, overall AI strategy. I work directly with Founders/CXOs/Partners and help organizations/VCs get AI right and deliver ROI at Org level KPIs Interactions with over 30+ AI first startups & MNCs to suggest paths forward. Advising & Consulting a range of organizations in India and US on acing AI - right from vision, setting up AI function, modeling, data, go-to-market strategy for AI products, creating AI road maps, building high-performance AI teams, overall AI strategy. I work directly with Founders/CXOs/Partners and help organizations/VCs get AI right and deliver ROI at Org level KPIs Interactions with over 30+ AI first startups & MNCs to suggest paths forward.



Practical Natural Language Processing Book [O’Reilly]

• Book Author:

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2020

  Practical Natural Language Processing is your guide to build, iterate and scale NLP systems in a business setting and to tailor them for various industry verticals. The book was released in June 2020, and within 3 weeks was in top20 in Computer Science on amazon. The book is endorsed by Zachary Lipton, Sebastian Ruder & Marc Najork, Monojit Choudhury & Vinayak Hegde among others Foreword by Julian McAuley More info at: http://www.practicalnlp.ai Practical Natural Language Processing is your guide to build, iterate and scale NLP systems in a business setting and to tailor them for various industry verticals. The book was released in June 2020, and within 3 weeks was in top20 in Computer Science on amazon. The book is endorsed by Zachary Lipton, Sebastian Ruder & Marc Najork, Monojit Choudhury & Vinayak Hegde among others Foreword by Julian McAuley More info at: http://www.practicalnlp.ai



Intuit

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Leader, AI team

  • Dec 2018 - Feb 2020

  I am part of Intuit AI team leading some of the initiatives on baking AI into Intuit's product line I am part of Intuit AI team leading some of the initiatives on baking AI into Intuit's product line



Huawei Technologies

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director - Machine Learning

  • Dec 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Heading Machine Learning/Deep Learning efforts for products across various business lines involving NLP and Computer Vision • Aligning ML/DL efforts with their business. • Helping Huawei build a world class machine learning team. • Heading Machine Learning/Deep Learning efforts for products across various business lines involving NLP and Computer Vision • Aligning ML/DL efforts with their business. • Helping Huawei build a world class machine learning team.



Freshdesk

• India
• Education Management

• Senior Manager, Machine learning

  • Feb 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Led a team of ML researchers and ML engineers • Architect for ML R&D and product initiatives. • Major work: ⠀⠀⠀Identifying actionable conversations from twitter feeds ⠀⠀⠀Ticket collaborator suggestion ⠀⠀⠀Goal Oriented dialogue system: Intent detection, named entity extraction ⠀⠀⠀Ticket data and text representation • Led a team of ML researchers and ML engineers • Architect for ML R&D and product initiatives. • Major work: ⠀⠀⠀Identifying actionable conversations from twitter feeds ⠀⠀⠀Ticket collaborator suggestion ⠀⠀⠀Goal Oriented dialogue system: Intent detection, named entity extraction ⠀⠀⠀Ticket data and text representation



Airwoot (Now Acquired by Freshdesk)

• Lead Machine Learning Researcher

  • Apr 2015 - Feb 2016

  • Cenceptualize, develop and deliver all ML Efforts at Airwoot • Built ML systems for NLP tasks such classification, sentiment analysis, Noise cancellation • Drove efforts to move to Deep Learning from featre engineering and classical Machine Learning • Toolbelt: Python, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Lasagne, Passage • Cenceptualize, develop and deliver all ML Efforts at Airwoot • Built ML systems for NLP tasks such classification, sentiment analysis, Noise cancellation • Drove efforts to move to Deep Learning from featre engineering and classical Machine Learning • Toolbelt: Python, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Lasagne, Passage



droom Technology

• India
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

  • Headed all Data Science efforts at Droom Technologies. • Bottom line responsibility of Building, from scratch, mathematical models for pricing/valuation of used vehicles in the Indian market. (https://orangebookvalue.com/) • Defined and executed entire Data Science life cycle. • Responsible for building and expanding Data Science Team from scratch. • Directly worked with the CEO • I was also a part core strategy planning team. The team brainstormed and evaluated various initiatives in Marketing, Business Development, Engineering, Business related Policy Decisions at Droom. Show less


Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Teaching Assistant

  • Jul 2011 - Dec 2014


IIIT Hyderabad

• India
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • May 2007 - May 2009

• Adjunct Faculty

  • Jul 2006 - May 2009

  Taught post-graduate level course “Mathematical Foundations” (MA-5905) introducing the foundation blocks of modern-day cryptography. Topics covered:• Computability Theory• Complexity Theory• One way Functions• Pseudo Random Generators• Zero-Knowledge Proofs.


Financial Software & Systems (P) Ltd
• Software Engineer

  • 2006 - 2006

Infosys
• India
• IT System Custom Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Software Engineer

  • 2004 - 2006