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Pradeep Natarajan

Data Scientist Full Stack Machine Learning Engineer Software Engineer

About Me

Hello, I am Pradeep Natarajan, with 13+ years of industry experience specialized in data science and machine learning. I dive deep to analyze the data and derive information from it. Can handle end to end machine learning projects from data extraction , data pre-processing, model development , validation, MLOps & DevOps pipeline to productionize the ML models.

  • Machine learning
  • Neural Networks
  • NLP
  • Fraud detection
  • Recommender systems
  • text analytics
  • cloud computing
  • A/B testing
  • regression analysis
  • language modeling
  • data visualization
  • Model explainability
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Technical Skills

Unix
70%
Windows
81%

R
40%
Python
78%
SAS
85%
Scala
60%
UNIX Shell Scripting
75%
SQL
90%

Teradata
70%
Oracle
75%
SQL Server
81%
Hive
80%
Azure DBMS
81%
Hadoop
60%

Spark 2.x
81%
Hadoop
86%
Hive
74%
HDFS
89%

Azure Auto ML
78%
AWS Sagemaker
88%
SAS EG
78%
SAS Eminer
74%
MS Excel
80%

sklearn
70%
Tensorflow
65%
Keras
80%
sparkml
55%
SciPy
60%

Azure
90%
AWS
45%
Google cloud platform
30%

Work Experience

2022-Now

SENIOR DATA SCIENCE MANAGER

PayPal Inc.

Created merchant embeddings by consolidating various merchant features and generated the latent representation using deep learning architecture , for finding similar merchants. Developed a light weight fraud detection model to handle the t...

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2018-2021

LEAD DATA SCIENTIST

Ilink Systems , USA

Strategize Build Recommendation platform for the VCA hospitals using Artificial intelligence. Design build Product Recommendation Engine to automatically recommend medication based on patients concerns using Deeplearning and r...

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2013-2018

SENIOR ASSOCIATE – DATA SCIENTIST

CTS , Indiа & USA

1) Wоrk аnd аѕѕiѕt in the соntributiоn аnd еnhаnсеmеnt of рrоjесtѕ while implementing credit risk models and real time fraud detection models using advanced machine learning algorithms 2) Create statistical reports post model imp...

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2010-2013

PRОGRАMMЕR ANАLУЅT

Aоn Hеwitt ,Chеnnаi, India

1) Dеmоnѕtrаtеd ѕоlid еxреriеnсе in the field of аррliсаtiоn programming, application аnаlуѕiѕ, dеѕign of functions and рrоgrаmming. 2) Build statistical and machine learning models to predict the trends of data using Py...

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SENIOR DATA SCIENCE MANAGER

PayPal Inc.
  • Created merchant embeddings by consolidating various merchant features and  generated the latent representation using deep learning architecture , for finding similar merchants.
  • Developed a light weight fraud detection model to handle the timeouts on the transactions
  • Merchant onboarding and monitoring on FPA and FPS products , finding new fraud patterns and generating rules to handle the fraud patterns
  • Currently working on finding patterns on bad emails , using char embeddings and other NLP techniques
  • Hire and mentor junior data scientist , enabling the team to learn , grow and manage the deliverables 

LEAD DATA SCIENTIST

Ilink Systems , USA
  • Strategize & Build Recommendation platform for the VCA hospitals using Artificial intelligence.
  • Design & build Product Recommendation Engine to automatically recommend medication based on patient’s concerns using Deeplearning and recommendation algorithms
  • Build deep neural networks models using NLP to translate the free text language to structured tags
  • Build deep neural networks NLU models to better represent the context of the natural language to find intends (using  Bi-LSTM and attention mechanism)
  • Analyze Order and Pricing portfolio , create a dashboard to statically understand the fluctuations in order counts over the period of years.
  • Designed and implemented computer vision models to analyze sewer videos and detect defects.
  • Productiontioned the models using feedback loop to capture the responses and retrain to improve the accuracy and to provide personalized recommendations
  • Create MLOps and DevOps pipeline to production the models in Azure could workspace.
  • Helped the organization to setup Data Science COE , was leading the team to strategically handle various data science portfolio projects horizontally

SENIOR ASSOCIATE – DATA SCIENTIST

CTS , Indiа & USA

1) Wоrk аnd аѕѕiѕt in the соntributiоn аnd еnhаnсеmеnt of рrоjесtѕ while implementing credit risk models and real time fraud detection models using advanced machine learning algorithms
2) Create statistical reports post model implementations to business team for deeper insight of the data and performance
3) Worked in machine learning algorithms like XGboost and Regression methods using python and spark
4) Cоllаbоrаtе with tеаm tо dеѕign, develop, implement аnd еxесutе рrоgrаmѕ in a viеw tо рrоvidе quality аѕѕurаnсе of thе products
5) Initiate innоvаtе dеѕign ѕtrаtеgiеѕ аnd рlаnѕ in an еndеаvоr tо dеvеlор high ԛuаlitу рrоduсtѕ in fаvоr оf thе organization
6) Poc’s on Neural networks and compare efficiencies with other models
7) Implement the developed models in clouds like AWS

PRОGRАMMЕR ANАLУЅT

Aоn Hеwitt ,Chеnnаi, India

1) Dеmоnѕtrаtеd ѕоlid еxреriеnсе in the field of аррliсаtiоn programming, application аnаlуѕiѕ, dеѕign of functions and рrоgrаmming.
2) Build statistical and machine learning models to predict the trends of data using Python & R
3) Created analytical reports to understand the data better and created various scheduled reports using SAS
4) Acquired рrоfiсiеnсу with thе vаriоuѕ dаtа bаѕе rеѕоurсеѕ аnd dаtа base mаnаgеmеnt.
5) Created a ETL system using SAS to load the files to data repositories .
6) Acquired аѕ well аѕ developed test dаtа, rеviѕing program(s) rеѕulting in improved реrfоrmаnсе

 

Certification

SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 from SAS Institute

2015

Deep Learning Specialization from deeplearning.ai

2019

Natural Language Processing Specialization from deeplearning.ai

2020

Education

Bachelor Of Engineering in Computer Science

College of Engineering, Guindy Anna University Main campus on 2009

Statistics and Business Analytics

Indian Statistical Institute on 2015

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