8+ years building production ML across credit risk, commodity trading, market risk and geospatial analytics — from model design to cloud deployment. Currently Sr. Data Scientist at Trafigura; previously led a 12-person data science team at U GRO Capital.
Experience
| Years | Role | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 – | Trafigura · Sr. Data Scientist | Cloud data platforms for commodity trading |
| 2022 – 24 | U GRO Capital · Sr. DS, DVP | Credit-risk ML, USD 1B disbursed, team of 12 |
| 2021 – 22 | Bank of America · Data Engineer | Market-risk ETL across five business lines |
| 2019 – 21 | Reliance Jio · Sr. SDE, Spatial | Geospatial analytics, REST APIs, telecom |
Selected work
GRO Score
GST-based credit scoring · 25K features · USD 1B AUM · 80K customers · Mastercard partner
Marketing intelligence
Propensity-scored cross-sell leads · +18.3% call-center conversion
Jio-bp EV network
GIS site selection for EV charging across India
Python for Finance
Technical reviewer, BPB Publications
Education & certifications
M.Sc. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Liverpool John Moores University · 2023 – 24
Postgraduate Degree, ML and AI
IIIT Bangalore · 2021 – 23
B.E. Electronics Engineering
University of Mumbai · 2013 – 18
- Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading (EPAT) – Quantitative Analysis
- Advanced Python
- Pretraining LLMs – DeepLearning.AI
- Building RESTful Web APIs with Django
Stack
Python · SQL · PyTorch · TensorFlow · XGBoost · LightGBM · GenAI / LLM / LangChain · AWS · Spark · Docker · Kubernetes · Power BI · Tableau