Open to opportunities

kundan sakargayen

@kundansakargayen

Message

Data scientist with 7+ years building scalable ML solutions and deploying production AI.

India

Message

What I'm looking for

I seek roles building production ML systems end-to-end at data-driven teams, with opportunities to impact product strategy and scale models in cloud environments.

I am a data scientist with 7+ years of experience delivering end-to-end machine learning solutions across telecom and enterprise software domains. I specialize in feature engineering, model development (XGBoost, neural networks, transformers) and deploying repeatable pipelines using PySpark and AWS SageMaker.

My work has included recommendation and churn propensity systems, 5G site prioritization, and multilingual NLP chatbots, where I improved conversion rates, reduced churn, and enabled data-driven capital allocation. I pair technical depth in Python, PySpark, SQL and deep learning frameworks with hands-on cloud experience on AWS and GCP.

I am collaborative and business-focused, experienced integrating ML into marketing and product workflows, automating training/scoring, and communicating insights via dashboards and APIs to drive measurable impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Scientist

Current

Vodafone Idea Limited

Aug 2022 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Built recommendation and churn propensity models and automated ML pipelines on AWS, improving offer conversion and reducing churn in high-ARPU segments while enabling real-time campaign integration.

Python Pyspark AWS Sagemaker XGBoost Deep Learning SQL

Machine Learning Engineer

Wipro Limited

Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year)

Developed a multilingual NLP chatbot and digital contact center solutions for APAC telecom, implementing preprocessing, translation models and serverless deployment to improve multi-channel customer engagement.

Python NLTK Keras AWS Lambda DynamoDB Machine Translation NLP Integration

Senior Software Engineer

Netlink Software Group America Inc.

May 2018 - Aug 2021 (3 years 3 months)

Built Lumenore Ask Me enterprise NLP search and Smart Visualization features including text preprocessing, autocorrect, rule-based SQL generation, model-driven visualization selection and microservice deployments.