Head of Data & AI - Chief AI Architect

• May 2023 - Present

I am an accomplished and result-driven professional with a strong background in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. With over a decade of experience, I have led and contributed to several high-impact projects across diverse industries, delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth. At Harbinger Systems, I currently serve as the Head of Data & AI – Chief AI Architect, leading the Centre of Excellence and Delivery projects. I collaborate closely with prestigious clients… Show more I am an accomplished and result-driven professional with a strong background in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. With over a decade of experience, I have led and contributed to several high-impact projects across diverse industries, delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth. At Harbinger Systems, I currently serve as the Head of Data & AI – Chief AI Architect, leading the Centre of Excellence and Delivery projects. I collaborate closely with prestigious clients in the US and Europe, operating in the banking domain. My role involves providing AI architecture support to the delivery function within Harbinger. Leveraging my expertise in Python, Datalake, AWS EC2, GPT-3/3.5/4, Falcon, LLama2 and LangChain, I ensure the successful execution of projects. Show less I am an accomplished and result-driven professional with a strong background in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. With over a decade of experience, I have led and contributed to several high-impact projects across diverse industries, delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth. At Harbinger Systems, I currently serve as the Head of Data & AI – Chief AI Architect, leading the Centre of Excellence and Delivery projects. I collaborate closely with prestigious clients… Show more I am an accomplished and result-driven professional with a strong background in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. With over a decade of experience, I have led and contributed to several high-impact projects across diverse industries, delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth. At Harbinger Systems, I currently serve as the Head of Data & AI – Chief AI Architect, leading the Centre of Excellence and Delivery projects. I collaborate closely with prestigious clients in the US and Europe, operating in the banking domain. My role involves providing AI architecture support to the delivery function within Harbinger. Leveraging my expertise in Python, Datalake, AWS EC2, GPT-3/3.5/4, Falcon, LLama2 and LangChain, I ensure the successful execution of projects. Show less

Lead Data Scientist - International Focus (Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil)

• Dec 2021 - Apr 2023

Yogesh Sakpal, As a lead accomplishment and contributions – 1. Led the roadmap for team international on the technical activities and their deadline of every task. 2. Led the 10+ data scientists on the internal work across different time zones. 3. Led and developed an in-house capability for categorization, entity resolution and income stream classifier. 4. Led the labeling activities for model training with inhouse labeling team. 5. Led the work on training the country… Show more Yogesh Sakpal, As a lead accomplishment and contributions – 1. Led the roadmap for team international on the technical activities and their deadline of every task. 2. Led the 10+ data scientists on the internal work across different time zones. 3. Led and developed an in-house capability for categorization, entity resolution and income stream classifier. 4. Led the labeling activities for model training with inhouse labeling team. 5. Led the work on training the country specific models, those models for Australia, Canada, and Brazil with labeled dataset. 6. Led the entire deployment architecture from scratch with the blueprint for team international on the categorization, entity resolution and Income stream classifier. 7. Led the conversation on the deployment and the UAT testing with respective team. 8. Developed the FAST API framework through factory engine and deployment of the iteration 1.0 models on the dev, stage and prod for Australia. 9. Led the end-to-end development of new models (T5 models earlier was BERT models) for iteration2.0 from scratch for categorization and entity resolution. 10. Led the model governance for team international, includes model inventory, model scorecard creation, and model process documentation review. 11. Led the Mastercard Patent Program for team international with internal counsel team and wrote the document for processes we have developed for successfully filing the application on India government patent website. Application Number - P22052014 12. Led the work on creating the case study for categorization, entity resolution and income stream classifier with the team members. Show less Yogesh Sakpal, As a lead accomplishment and contributions – 1. Led the roadmap for team international on the technical activities and their deadline of every task. 2. Led the 10+ data scientists on the internal work across different time zones. 3. Led and developed an in-house capability for categorization, entity resolution and income stream classifier. 4. Led the labeling activities for model training with inhouse labeling team. 5. Led the work on training the country… Show more Yogesh Sakpal, As a lead accomplishment and contributions – 1. Led the roadmap for team international on the technical activities and their deadline of every task. 2. Led the 10+ data scientists on the internal work across different time zones. 3. Led and developed an in-house capability for categorization, entity resolution and income stream classifier. 4. Led the labeling activities for model training with inhouse labeling team. 5. Led the work on training the country specific models, those models for Australia, Canada, and Brazil with labeled dataset. 6. Led the entire deployment architecture from scratch with the blueprint for team international on the categorization, entity resolution and Income stream classifier. 7. Led the conversation on the deployment and the UAT testing with respective team. 8. Developed the FAST API framework through factory engine and deployment of the iteration 1.0 models on the dev, stage and prod for Australia. 9. Led the end-to-end development of new models (T5 models earlier was BERT models) for iteration2.0 from scratch for categorization and entity resolution. 10. Led the model governance for team international, includes model inventory, model scorecard creation, and model process documentation review. 11. Led the Mastercard Patent Program for team international with internal counsel team and wrote the document for processes we have developed for successfully filing the application on India government patent website. Application Number - P22052014 12. Led the work on creating the case study for categorization, entity resolution and income stream classifier with the team members. Show less

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