Shashank shekhar Singh

Experienced hand on ML / AI Engineering leader with 12+ years

of experience in architecting ML / AI Systems in multiple domains like HR Tech, CPG, E-governance and Telcom.

Successfully created and deployed large-scale Artificial Intelligence products from ground up like Conversational AI assistant, Job-Candidate Recommender, GenAI platform, Consumer foresights engine, Biometric fraud analytics platform ect.

Experience in all phases of the machine learning product development life-cycle such as business understanding, data collection and pre-processing, feature engineering, model building/finetuning and testing, deployment, setting up continuous monitoring and automated retraining framework.

Experienced in leading and mentoring a team of ML Engineers and Data Scientists for end-to-end ML lifecycle.

Experienced in working with CXOs and cross functional Engineering, Product, Design and Marketing teams to create AI vision, roadmap, and execution strategy

Role
Lead ML Engineer
Years of Experience
19.5 years

Skillsets

Machine Learning
Explainable ai frameworks
Recommender systems
Large Language Models
Intent detection
Dimensionality Reduction
Data Modeling
Data Engineering
classification algorithms
Causal Inference
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Time-Series Forecasting
regression models
Prompt Engineering
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Model deployment
Feature Engineering
Deep Learning
Clustering algorithms

Professional Summary

19.5Years

Apr, 2025 - Present1 yr
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
New Relic
Apr, 2021 - Apr, 20254 yr
Lead ML Engineer (Founding Engineer & MLE Architect)
Sense
Dec, 2020 - Nov, 2021 11 months
Industry Expert Coach -Machine Learning
upGrad
Dec, 2009 - Mar, 20133 yr 3 months
Product Engineer
Subex Ltd.
Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20184 yr 10 months
Senior Consultant - Data Science
Aujas Cybersecurity
Jan, 2018 - Apr, 20213 yr 3 months
Senior Manager - Data Science
Diageo
Aug, 2007 - Nov, 20092 yr 3 months
Software Engineer
Torry Harris Business Solutions

Applications & Tools Known

LangChain
Gensim
NLTK
Pytorch Lightning
pandas
scikit learn
MySQL
Snowflake
SparkSQL
Postgres
ElasticSearch
AWS
Docker
Matplotlib
Github
Jenkins

Work History

19.5Years

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

New Relic

Apr, 2025 - Present1 yr

Lead ML Engineer (Founding Engineer & MLE Architect)

Sense

Apr, 2021 - Apr, 20254 yr

Contributed to Recruitment conversational AI assistant, Job-Candidate matching engine, and GenAI-based SenseAI platform.

Industry Expert Coach -Machine Learning

upGrad

Dec, 2020 - Nov, 2021 11 months

Senior Manager - Data Science

Diageo

Jan, 2018 - Apr, 20213 yr 3 months

Led Data Science initiatives in consumer marketing, e-commerce, commercial sales, and finance.

Senior Consultant - Data Science

Aujas Cybersecurity

Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20184 yr 10 months

Consulted for India's UIDAI Aadhaar program and spearheaded development of AI/ML-based Identity Fraud Management platform.

Product Engineer

Subex Ltd.

Dec, 2009 - Mar, 20133 yr 3 months

Worked on improving the flagship Telecom Fraud Detection & Revenue Assurance product using analytics and algorithms.

Software Engineer

Torry Harris Business Solutions

Aug, 2007 - Nov, 20092 yr 3 months

Worked on maintaining and improving Orange UK's (now Everything Everywhere UK) in-house Fraud Analytics platform.

Achievements

Winner of Sense Hackathon in Dec 2021
Team Awarded the best emerging product at Sense Annual Day in Feb 2022
Chatbot Product awarded the Best Innovative Tech Solution at 2022 HR Tech Awards
Judge for Sense AI hackathon in 2023
CIO Award for the team for Consumer Foresights platform
Black label Award for the Product Assortment recommendation engine
Kaliber Award for customer credit reliability platform
Champ of the Year award in 2016 for improving facial age and demographic age mismatches using CNN

Major Projects

2Projects

Generative AI Tool Development

Developed an internal Gen AI tool for generating survey documents for market research studies.

Inventory Simulation Model

Built a model for inventory cost optimization and stock availability improvement for an aviation client.

Education

Big Data Analytics Certification
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (2017)
Bachelor of Technology Electronics & Communication Engineering
Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow (2007)

Certifications

Big data analytics certification from indian institute of management, bangalore
Big Data Analytics
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (Jul, 2017)
Deep Learning by Andrew NG
Coursera (Oct, 2019)