Career Journey

Senior Data Scientist & ML Engineer

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Careem

Senior Data Scientist
2022-2024

Anti-fraud Projects

Implemented robust face-recognition system to identify duplicate driver accounts 5% decrease in fraudulent activities
Developed real-time pre-authorization model for ride-hailing services 60% increase in precision, less customer complaints
Launched anomaly detection system for models and features 10% improvement in data quality

Recommendation Team

Designed ranking model for seamless trip recommendations
Led food team in enhancing personalized recommendation engine
Developed two-tower based retrieval model for food recommendations

AI Team

Built AI Assistant for restaurant bookings using GPT-4 API, langchain, and langfuse
Developed a guardrail system for LLMs to ensure safe and business-compliant responses, integrated into the existing AI systems
Face Recognition Anti-Fraud Real-time ML Anomaly Detection Recommendation Systems LLM Chat bot AI-based systems

MTS AI

ML Engineer / TechLead
2019-2022

Medical Chat-bot

Led development of medical chat-bot project: NER, Relation Extraction, Text Classification
Created error detection tool for data labeling 20% reduction in labeling errors, 50% faster analysis
Mentored 5+ colleagues, organized knowledge-sharing sessions 20% code efficiency improvement, 30% faster development

Video Enhancement & CV R&D

Completed video super-resolution system 4x higher resolution without degradation, higher user average time spend on platform
Managed research on multi-node cluster, self-supervision for GANs, converting models for inference on AI chips
NLP Computer Vision Video Processing Image generation GANs Team Leadership

Tele2

Senior DS for BigData Research
2018-2019
Implemented churn prediction, fraud detection, and look-alike models
Developed algorithm predicting actual value of client devices
Completed geo-analytics projects and call-center quality improvements
Organized two hackathons
Churn Prediction Fraud Detection Geo-analytics Look-alike BigData NLP

OTP Bank, Maxima Telecom, Frumatic

Data Scientist
2017-2018
Developed algorithm for predicting home and work stations based on user activity logs
Built user interest prediction system based on visited sites
Developed NLP-based recommendation system (Frumatic)
Built complete data science pipeline for cross-sell probability prediction (OTP Bank)
User Behavior Location Analytics Interest Prediction NLP Recommendation Systems Cross-sell Prediction

Various Consulting Companies

ERP Consultant
2012-2016
Led web analytical reporting system project from design to delivery
Formalized project concepts and technical documentation for budgeting systems
Curated development of accounting, logistics, and contract managing modules
ERP Systems Project Management Business Analysis