About Me
Demonstrated leadership with expertise in data science, computational science, deep learning and high performance computing software development
Strong practical experience in large scale analytics, machine learning and…
Demonstrated leadership with expertise in data science, computational science, deep learning and high performance computing software development
Strong practical experience in large scale analytics, machine learning and cloud computing
Engaged mentor and effective people manager, driving team growth and fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.
Experience
ML and Data Engineering
<p>Machine Learning and Data Engineering for commodity trading<br>
Developed a distributed and fault-tolerant scraper framework for gathering data from various sources, optimized resource utilization<br>
Designed and deployed processes to ensure data reliability by setting and checking data quality standards, ensuring significant error reduction in data processes<br>
Leading the design for cloud based integrated data analytics platform for firmwide usage, catering to data engineers and analysts<br>
Technologies used: Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform</p>
ML and Data Engineering
• Developed a distributed and fault-tolerant scraper framework for gathering data from various sources, optimized
resource utilization
• Designed and deployed processes to ensure data reliability by setting and checking data quality standards, ensuring
signficant error reduction in our data processes .
• Leading the design for cloud based integrated data analytics platform for firmwide usage, catering to data engineers
and analysts
• Technologies used: Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
Team Lead, Data Science
<p>Machine Learning and High Performance Computing for energy prospecting<br>
Incubated, led development and open-sourcing of mdio, a cloud native, scalable storage engine for various types of energy data<br>
Drove growth and commercialization of a SaaS solution for data management<br>
Led to savings of ∼$x0 MM per year in seismic data storage cost for hundreds of petabytes<br>
Grew the data science team from first hire to scaling it by 8x in four years, driving strategic initiatives, and subsequently promoted to team lead role<br>
Collaborated with HPC to design and implement a cost-aware hybrid (on-prem + cloud) high-performance computing roadmap, while establishing robust software engineering practices<br>
Provided technical evaluation of vendor proposals and worked with vendors to build components of data engineering infrastructure<br>
Co-authored a book on application of machine learning in oil and gas<br>
Designed and developed scalable microservices for data streaming and inference<br>
Key technologies used: FastAPI, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Flask, AWS API Gateway<br>
Developed elastic, fault tolerant, distributed computing infrastructure for scaling up training and inference of deep neural networks on terabytes of seismic data<br>
Key technologies used: PyTorch, torchelastic, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLFlow<br>
Lead for research and development of SaltNet, a workflow for interpreting salt body for velocity model building in seismic imaging<br>
Key technologies used: PyTorch, Dask, TensorRT, Docker<br>
Formulated the problem and designed the dataset for TGS Kaggle salt identification challenge, subsurface exploration industry’s first open data challenge on Kaggle<br>
Co-authored several conference abstracts and journal papers, awarded best paper in The Leading Edge, a premier exploration geophysics journal for 2020</p>
Computational Geophysicist
<p>Research and high-performance software development for massively parallel seismic applications<br>
Identified and proposed solutions to workflow inefficiencies in velocity model building workflows costing $1.5 million per year<br>
Lead developer for TraceRay – Schlumberger’s proprietary object-oriented ray tracing library (∼150,000 lines of code) – designed APIs, consulted with users of the library and provided technical support<br>
Achieved a 20% improvement in computational efficiency of TraceRay by redesigning core algorithms and numerical methods for ray tracing</p>
Advisor
<p>SaaS product for radiation oncology<br>
Mentor on using Apache Airflow for automating data pipelines, improving efficiency in tasks like data preprocessing and model training<br>
Guide integration of MONAI for tasks such as image segmentation, enhancing accuracy in organ and tumour contouring and treatment planning<br>
Advise on data annotation techniques and scalable model deployment, improving accessibility of AI solutions in radiation oncology<br>
Technologies used: MONAI, MONAILabel, NVIDIA Triton</p>