DATA/TECHNOLOGY/PRODUCT/FINANCE

Hi, I’m Vedang Bhardwaj
a Data Scientist.

I get machines to predict the future by connecting the dots in past, based out of Gurgaon I'm a technophile who loves to develop highly functional solutions. As someone who can identify latent and expressed needs of effective solutions, I'm committed to leveraging technology to devise high-quality solutions for everyone.

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I've had a diverse range of experience

Experiences

2022 - Present

Khatabook

Data Scientist

Bangalore, India
https://khatabook.com/

Spearheading model serving and deployment, established end to end model deployment pipeline for Khatabook's underwriting model and setup monitoring and observability, leading to 3x faster RCA, on-fly anamoly detection and 2x better model reconciliation.

Developed User risk segmentation model, and derived inferences pertaining to fraud risk associated across user segments.


2020 - 2022

National Payments Corporation of India

Associate Data Scientist

Hyderabad, India
https://www.npci.org.in/

Spearheaded UPI P2M fraud detection model project, successfully developed and deployed highly tuned and calibrated on-fly ML backed solution, accomplishing 64%+ hit rate MOM and 1:20 FPR overall effectuating to save 3.2 ~4 Mn INR on an avg monthly basis.

Successfully established ELK stack Analytics dept. wide solution for near real time data searchability, model observability and alerting resulting in quick RCA and 3x faster analysis coupled with rich visualization support.

Co-lead and developed Low Balance transaction decline prediction model with 96%+ recall on daily avg basis, while maintaining 0.10~0.14 Rs. exposure per transaction ratio.


2021 - 2022

Harvard US India Initiative

Technical Committee Lead

2021-2022
https://www.huii.com/

Developed and deployed HUII website, carried out UI development and backend integration with Airtable API from scratch to successful completion.

Developed automated jobs and mail triggers for selected applicants resulting in increased efficiency and reduced manual supervision.

Contributed in Delegate outreach, communication and moderated fireside chats with speakers.


2020 - 2021

Foodhub

Software Development Engineer Intern

Chennai, India
https://foodhub.co.uk

Contributed and developed a fully automated menu-digitization system achieved 94.21% accuracy results over variety of templates menu implementing OCR capability.

Developed interactive voice response automation system that provides on the go appointment service to the customer. Reduced manual follow-ups resulting to 47% reduction in call cost and 3.5x increase in customer appointment booking.


2018 - 2019

Twinline Business Solutions

Software Development Engineer Intern

Gurgaon, India
https://www.twinline.in

Successfully created an Aadhar identification app for KYC module, that accurately identifies the legitimacy of UID from the captured image.

Pulled off 2 click automation and 89% lossless compression direct image uploads to the database after validation, resulting to 71% time reduction in manual validation.

Skills

Data Science

Supervised Learning
80%
Unsupervised Learning
80%
Natural Language Processing
80%
Deep Learning
80%
Neural Networks
80%
Reinforcement Learning
80%
Skills

Technology Development

TECHNOLOGY PROJECT & MANAGEMENT
80%
WEB DEVELOPMENT
80%
CROSS-PLATFORM APP DEVELOPMENT
80%
BLOCKCHAIN DAPP DEVELOPMENT
80%
BACKEND DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
80%
DATABASE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
80%
DEV OPS & MANAGEMENT
80%
Skills

Branding & Marketing

BRAND DESIGN & STRATEGY
80%
DIGITAL & PERFORMANCE MARKETING
80%
360 CONTENT MARKETING
80%
NATIONAL MEDIA & PR MANAGEMENT
80%
ORGANIC SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION
80%
AFFILIATE MARKETING
80%
ECOMMERCE MARKETPLACES & MARKETING
80%
Skills

Product Building

P&L MANAGEMENT & GROWTH
80%
MARKET & CONSUMER RESEARCHG
80%
PROCESS INSTITUTION
80%
FINANCE & FUNDRAISING
80%
ECOMMERCE FULFILLMENT & OPERATIONS
80%
GROWTH HACKING
80%
2016 - 2020

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
84.2%

Rank holder: Among batch toppers in Sem 7 & 8.

Scholarship: Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Scholarship

Technical Committee HOD SRM WE Club - Entrepreneurship Cell

Vice Captain SRM University Table Tennis team

Lions Public School

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
10/10 CGPA

Consistently represented the instution on a multitude of competetive events winning various accolades in the domains of Technology, Sports and Quizzing.

Letter of Recommendation Awarded Letter of Recommendation from Times of India - NIE for exemplary performance in both academics and non-academics.

Quiz Acheived 2nd position in CBSE district quiz competition.

Sports Achieved 2nd position in CBSE Table Tennis Cluster Tournament and 3rd position in sub-junior category.

Headboy XI standard Leaded committee of 30 odd members across various disciplines and actualized mutliple scholastic events successfully.

2013-Present

Delegate at Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)

Conference

Selected as one of 500 delegates world-wide from a strong competitive pool of applicants from 72 countries to represent India in Data+AI track.

Plaksha Tech Leaders Fellowship

Fellowship

Granted fellowship as one of 60 selected students by Plaksha University assoc. with UC Berkeley and Purdue University.

Twilio Signal Conference - Scholarship recipient

Conference

Awarded all access Twilio Signal conference scholarship held at San Francisco USA as one of 300 selected applicants worldwide.

Letter of Recommendation by Times of India

Recommendation

Awarded Letter of Recommendation by Times of India, was selected amongst 1600 students for summer training and educational learning.

International Youth Leadership Conference Praguet

Conference

Accepted for the 39th Prague International Youth Leadership Conference as one of 100 selected applicants from prestigious universities world-wide.

Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Scholar

Scholarship

Awarded scholarship for Nutanix Hybrid Cloud program by Udacity and Nutanix, accepted as one of top 500 selected individual amongst 12k aspirants.

Microsoft Machine Learning for Azure Scholar

Scholarship

Awarded scholarship for Machine Learning for Azure program by Udacity and Microsoft, accepted as one of top 300 selected individual for the scholarship.

Extra Curriculars

Sports

Achieved 2nd position at CBSE cluster tournament in Table Tennis Tournament
Achieved 3rd position at Stage Table Tennis district level competition.

Stuff that

Excites me

Product Strategy

I like to conceptualize, build & scale solutions that create win-win outcomes to solve complex problems in large markets.

Fintech

Having been part of India's leading Fintech firms that solves for consumer and merchants ease of business and seamless payment experience, I'm commited to develop highly effective solutions leveraging technology and coupling it with targeted product offerings for India's MSME segment.

Machine learning and Data Science

As a proponent of the existence of AGI in our lifetimes, I aim to build products commercializing access to sophisticated AI in daily use cases especially focussing on making basic substinence accessible to everyone at marginal cost.

Brand building and marketing

Having witnessed the effects brands have on emotional wellness & mental health through delevering self actualization to people, I want to build ethical and memorable brands that last beyond centuries.

Youth Leadership Conferences

When I'm not working on cutting edge technologies, I like to frequent youth leadership conference to raise and ideate on some of the pressing issues the nation is facing. I am actively interested in business models that supercede restrictive bureaucracy to make SMSE's ease of doing business affordable & equitable, particularly in the developing economies.

Recommendations

Some Reviews

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Research Pixie

Manik Gupta

Chief Executive Officer

Website building and deployment at Research Pixie

Vedang has been an exceptional person to work with. He is clear and organized in his approach towards projects and makes sure that there is coordination in the team. He is good with technical skills and his ability to learn fast and execute makes him a reliable asset to any team.

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The Healthy Company

Devansh Jain Nawal

Cheif Executive Officer

Digital brand building and marketing

It was great to have Vedang as a part of the team in the initial days of The Healthy Company where he managed our organic digital marketing efforts and developed strategies for the same, from the ground up.

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National Payments Corporation of India

Ashutosh Agrahari

Co-worker at NPCI

UPI P2M model and ELK stack deployment

While working with Vedang, I've always noticed that he picks up the skills be it tech, bike-riding, or sports, and he excels in all of them in two or three tries. Given his tremendous and fantabulous ability to learn and adapt to anything or anywhere wherever he's put, he proves to be a worthy contender in all spheres of life. While working with him, I always couldn't stop admiring his social and technical skills. Wishing him the best in all his future endeavors.

Contact

Drop me a line

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Vedang Bhardwaj

Data Scientist

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Phone: +91 8368161467 Email: [email protected]