Techno optimist
Experience
2019 — Now
2019 — Now
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Builder of Risk Entity Watch 👀: https://www.uber.com/blog/risk-entity-watch/
Builder of RADAR 📡: https://eng.uber.com/project-radar-intelligent-early-fraud-detection/
Contributor to Uber Michelangelo: https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo-machine-learning-platform/
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
• Drastically improved feature engineering system including data quality controls, fast onboarding, and experiment tracking capabilities.
• Supported the implementation of the text classification models using NLP/convolutional networks
• Supported the implementation of search ranking using xgboost- lambdamart
• Rebuilt catalog indexing pipeline bringing 10x optimization of resource utilization, consistency testing, linear scalability, and performance improvements.
• Designed and implemented the processes for data quality and search results validation
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Palo Alto, CA
• Built the AI for detecting malicious user activities using custom-designed time-series anomaly detection algorithms. Scaled to handle 4 billion events per day.
• Build Spark-based framework for hosting streaming apps featuring the following capabilities:
• Breaking change for stateful streaming apps
• Realtime reconfiguration without restart
• Time series functions for GroupBy aggregations
• Time-series Forward fill/Backward fill
• Distributed unique counts
• Built the simulation system for the user behavior using Monte-Carlo sampling methods implemented using on Akka
• Developed AI chatbot capable of producing advanced data reports based on natural language commands.
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
San Francisco Bay Area
• Real-time data stream analysis and NLP using Apache Spark, Scala, Akka, Lucene, Elastic Search, Apache Storm
• Custom NLP models, which go beyond sentiment analysis
2012 — 2014
2012 — 2014
Built no-code system for managing "Dave" - a proprietary automated financial advisor.
This technology platform:
• delivered an order of magnitude improvement in terms of employee engagement in financial transactions over the industry baseline.
• helped to raise tens of millions of dollars in funding
• grow the company to billions in assets under management.
Education
Higher School of Economics