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Abhay Kansal

A resultsdriven AI/ML Leader with over 12 years of experience driving impactful solutions for complex, greenfield challenges across diverse sectors including Nuclear, Automotive, IoT, and Health. Passionate about building highperforming teams and strategically driving innovation to achieve key business objectives.
  • Role

    Principal ML Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    12.7 years

Skillsets

  • Seaborn
  • Matplotlib
  • Ml engineering
  • NLP
  • NumPy
  • OLAP
  • OpenCV
  • pandas
  • Plotly
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Scikitlearn
  • Linux
  • Shiny
  • Snowflake
  • SQL
  • StatsModels
  • Streaming data
  • Timeseries
  • Tpot
  • Typesense
  • XgBoost
  • Mivlus
  • Data Warehousing
  • Data Architecture
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Pipelines
  • Deep Learning
  • Distributed inference
  • Machine Learning
  • MLOps
  • System Design
  • arrow
  • Dask
  • Data Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Docker
  • DuckDB
  • FAISS
  • FastAI
  • Fivetran
  • Image Processing
  • Jupyter
  • Jupyterhub
  • Keras
  • Lakehouse

Professional Summary

12.7Years
  • Nov, 2020 - Aug, 20254 yr 9 months

    Principal ML Engineer

    Cars24 Services
  • Oct, 2019 - Nov, 20201 yr 1 month

    Senior Data Scientist

    Endovision AI
  • Nov, 2015 - Oct, 20193 yr 11 months

    Senior Data Scientist & Lead Product Manager Data Science & IoT

    Zenatix Solutions
  • Apr, 2013 - Oct, 2013 6 months

    Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Dec, 2014 - Feb, 2015 2 months

    Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

    Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
  • Apr, 2015 - Nov, 2015 7 months

    Research Associate (Data Science)

    Indian School of Business
  • Aug, 2009 - Sep, 20112 yr 1 month

    Assistant Manager (Design Engineer R&D)

    Maruti Suzuki India

Applications & Tools Known

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    transformers

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    Keras

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    Xgboost

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    OpenCV

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    Pandas

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    Dask

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    Seaborn

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    Plotly

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    snowflake

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    Jupyter

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    Docker

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    SQL

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    OLAP

Work History

12.7Years

Principal ML Engineer

Cars24 Services
Nov, 2020 - Aug, 20254 yr 9 months
    Incubated and led efforts in ML Engineering, MLOps, Computer Vision, and Data Engineering to develop, maintain, and deploy at scale. Led and expanded a cross-functional AI/ML practice spanning Data Engineering, Deep Learning, ML Engineering & MLOps. Developed and deployed finetuned STT models for multiple Indian languages, architected intelligent document processing platforms, built and deployed in-house Deep Learning/DS solutions, optimized deep learning deployment workflows, trained and deployed domain-specific small LLMs/VLMs, migrated observability stack, implemented scalable data engineering solutions, and architected real-time data pipelines.

Senior Data Scientist

Endovision AI
Oct, 2019 - Nov, 20201 yr 1 month
    Led development and productionisation of various computer vision models. Implemented approaches for image classification and object detection, deployed models in production with ONNX & TensorRT, improved resource utilization and inference latency, created accuracy and benchmarking metrics, designed and developed solutions for real-time inference on premise, containerized solutions for edge compute infrastructure, and implemented real-time video capture and processing pipelines.

Senior Data Scientist & Lead Product Manager Data Science & IoT

Zenatix Solutions
Nov, 2015 - Oct, 20193 yr 11 months
    Led efforts on data modeling using ML/DL methods, established ETL strategies for insightful reporting, defined strategy and architecture of new products, developed in-house greenfield platforms/products for BI/DS at scale, built models for AC state identification, developed energy forecast and anomaly detection models, analyzed data packets from microcontrollers, built energy disaggregation models, and developed advanced analytics BI platform.

Research Associate (Data Science)

Indian School of Business
Apr, 2015 - Nov, 2015 7 months
    Worked on NGOs donor datasets to analyze and model behavior in donation patterns, studied consumption patterns for detergent packages in different demographics, and contributed to research in marketing analytics.

Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Dec, 2014 - Feb, 2015 2 months
    Conducted research in numerical simulation, ran modeling and simulation jobs for nuclear risk assessment studies using proprietary codes.

Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Apr, 2013 - Oct, 2013 6 months
    Developed and studied coupling interface for multiphysics & multiscale simulation problems for nuclear reactor study, ported Montecarlo code for neutron transport, ran modeling and simulation jobs for nuclear risk assessment.

Assistant Manager (Design Engineer R&D)

Maruti Suzuki India
Aug, 2009 - Sep, 20112 yr 1 month
    Worked as R&D engineer, did numerous design projects with varied criticality, contributed to engineering and product development.

Education

  • M.S. in Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering

    ParisSud University (2013)
  • M.S. in Nuclear Engineering

    UPC (Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya) (2012)
  • B.E. in Manufacturing Process and Automation

    NSIT (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology) (2009)
  • Big Data Xseries Certificate

    BerkeleyX Edx (2015)
  • The Analytics Edge Certificate

    MITx Edx (2015)
  • Self Driving Car Nanodegree Term1 Scholarship

    Udacity (2019)
  • Executive Program in Energy Management

    Grenoble Ecole de Management
  • European Masters in Innovation in Nuclear Energy (KIC InnoEnergy Scholarship)

    Grenoble Ecole de Management (2013)

Certifications

  • Self driving car nanodegree term1

  • The analytics edge mitx edx

  • Big data xseries berkeleyx edx