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Nitish Chhabra

Full stack Data Science Lead with 8 years of experience in MLOps, Computer Vision & NLP. Expert at solving business problems with Machine Learning & deploying to production. Proficient at managing data from Transactions, Text, Images, Videos & IoT devices and automating the creation, execution & monitoring of modern ML architectures. Experienced in working with various machine learning/deep learning models, hyper-parameter management tools, data/workflow management tools & data visualization frameworks. Have built AI products for banks, optimized marketing spends, recommended products, built time series predictions as well as managed teams. Also worked on personal projects related to mask detection, object detection on Edge Devices with Nvidia Jetson Nano using TensorRT, hosting web frontends using Docker with Django/WordPress & FastAPI, face landmark detection, and voice-controlling computers.

  • Role

    Machine Learning Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    10 years

  • Professional Portfolio

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Skillsets

  • Ludwig
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • NLP
  • Spark
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Shell
  • Scikit-learn pipelines
  • Computer Vision
  • Google Data Studio
  • FastAPI
  • FastAI
  • Excel
  • Elasticsearch
  • ClickHouse
  • Big Query
  • Arduino (C++)
  • Deep Learning
  • Generative AI
  • OpenCV
  • Machine Learning
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark
  • NLP
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Generative AI
  • OpenCV
  • Machine Learning
  • Plotly
  • OpenCV
  • PySpark
  • Python
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • SparkML
  • H2O
  • Transformers
  • Fb prophet
  • MLFlow
  • Hyperopt
  • Airflow
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Seaborn
  • Grafana
  • Streamlit
  • FB Hiplot
  • Looker
  • Tableau
  • Dash
  • Jira
  • Linear
  • Jetson nano
  • Python
  • SQL
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV

Professional Summary

10Years
  • Jul, 2021 - Present4 yr 6 months

    Machine Learning Engineer 2

    DISCO NETWORK
  • Jan, 2019 - Jun, 20212 yr 5 months

    Sr. Associate Vice President - Data Science

    Goals101.AI
  • Feb, 2018 - Jan, 2019 11 months

    Data Scientist

    SHAW ACADEMY
  • Jun, 2015 - Nov, 20172 yr 5 months

    Data Scientist

    TAPZO
  • Nov, 2017 - Feb, 2018 3 months

    Senior Manager, Analytics

    HOME CREDIT

Applications & Tools Known

  • icon-tool

    MySQL

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    Git

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    REST API

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    Python

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    AWS (Amazon Web Services)

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    SQL

Work History

10Years

Machine Learning Engineer 2

DISCO NETWORK
Jul, 2021 - Present4 yr 6 months
    Built deep recommender systems for real-time brand and product ranking for 1M+ daily buyers. Managed real-time serving through Redis and AWS Sagemaker. Improved ranking by 22%. Built product taxonomy, classification, and zero-shot learning for auto-categorization. Developed object detection and clustering for product images. Built cross-sell models and user analytics for optimizing brand spending and improving user journeys. Led analytical efforts for ad-spend and product analytics.

Sr. Associate Vice President - Data Science

Goals101.AI
Jan, 2019 - Jun, 20212 yr 5 months
    Built proprietary Goals ML Platform licensed by MasterCard and VISA. Deployed code across continents, automated tracking and data pipeline maintenance. Developed ROI predictor using Facebook Prophet and HiPlot. Created customer ranking models for offers, NER for extracting brand/location from bank narration, and clickstream models for conversion optimization. Built consulting reports for major brands and India's Consumer Spending Index.

Data Scientist

SHAW ACADEMY
Feb, 2018 - Jan, 2019 11 months
    Developed marketing optimization models for 45 countries and 7 channels. Predicted ROI from leads with 17% error. Built lead propensity models to optimize sales spend, ranking 85% buyers from top 20% leads.

Senior Manager, Analytics

HOME CREDIT
Nov, 2017 - Feb, 2018 3 months
    Managed 7 analysts, responsible for manual and automated reports and hiring.

Data Scientist

TAPZO
Jun, 2015 - Nov, 20172 yr 5 months
    Predicted daily transaction category and time for users. Predicted churn, targeted cab users, managed and forecasted revenue and spends. Designed product specs, user incentives, performed 200+ A/B tests and 20+ user studies.

Achievements

  • People's Choice Award
  • Game Changer
  • Best Performer of the Year

Testimonial

Disco Network

Matt Green

I have worked closely with Nitish on building customer-facing machine learning systems and would recommend him to any organization seeking a business-oriented machine learning engineer. Nitish has a knack for working with complex data and deploying reliable models. At Disco, he implemented data pipelines and a product classifier that significantly improved the quality of recommendations. Nitish is very collaborative and was able to work effectively across teams including engineering and product analytics. He would be an asset to any team seeking to level up their ability to apply ML.

By Matt Green

Now - Head of Machine Learning at Disco

Then - My Manager

Source - Recommendation on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitish-chhabra/)

Goals101.AI

Amit Saraswat

Nitish has a knack for understanding business problems and coming out with data science-based solutions. He is equally comfortable with using Machine Learning applications and Data engineering applications. His ability to think through the problem end to end is an asset to the team. He also possesses good visualization and presentation skills. Because of his all-around knowledge of the area, he worked on some challenging projects, which he conceptualized and delivered with minimum help. Overall Nitish is a complete package for modern data science practice. I wish him the best of luck with his current projects and future endeavors.

By Amit Saraswat

Now - Co founder and Chief Product Officer at Metis Intellisystems

Then - My Manager

Source - Recommendation On Linkedin (Https://Www.Linkedin.Com/In/Nitish-Chhabra/)

Tapzo

Vivek Gera

Nitish finds his passion in piercing through the numbers and coming up with million-dollar insights to drive product improvement and business growth at Tapzo. The pace and precision at which he works out solutions to everyday business problems are nearly sublime and, to some extent, incredible.

Nitishs strong bias for action has helped him acquire not only exceptional analytical skills but also a strategic mindset to proactively identify critical business problems and then, subsequently, the most logical solutions.

Apart from being an excellent individual contributor, Nitish actively helps out his peers to achieve the higher benchmark of performance that he himself has set over the years.

I rate him among the top 1% in his domain and wish him great success in the future.

By Vivek Gera

Now - CEO & Co-Founder at Leucine

Then - My Manager

Source - Recommendation On Linkedin (Https://Www.Linkedin.Com/In/Nitish-Chhabra/)

Major Projects

5Projects

Mask detection which works even if the person is wearing glasses or hats

Jan, 1970 - Jan, 1970
    Developed a mask detection system robust to glasses and hats. Demo at bit.ly/ml_demos

Object detection on Edge Devices with Nvidia Jetson Nano using TensorRT

Jan, 1970 - Jan, 1970
    Implemented object detection on edge devices using Nvidia Jetson Nano and TensorRT. Demo at bit.ly/object_track

Hosting simpler Frontend's using Docker with Django/WordPress & FastAPI

Jan, 1970 - Jan, 1970
    Hosted simple frontends using Docker with Django/WordPress and FastAPI. Demo at bit.ly/docker_website

Face Landmark detection & voice controlling computer

Jan, 1970 - Jan, 1970
    Developed face landmark detection and voice control for computers. Demo at bit.ly/face_track and bit.ly/audio_control

Study of how Covid-19 impacted purchase patterns and category-wise recovery

Jan, 1970 - Jan, 1970
    Analyzed the impact of Covid-19 on purchase patterns and category-wise recovery. Article at bit.ly/covid_buying

Education

  • B.Tech

    Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE) (1970)
  • XIIth, CBSE

    Springdales School, New Delhi (2025)
  • Xth, CBSE

    St. Michael's School, New Delhi (2025)

Interests

  • Watching Movies
  • Listening Music
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Exploring
  • Travelling
  • Internet Surfing