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Lokesh Jain

@lokeshjain1

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Senior data engineer and machine learning practitioner specializing in scalable cloud-native data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior data engineering or ML role in a collaborative, data-driven company where I can build scalable cloud-native pipelines, mentor teams, and deploy production ML systems.

I am a senior data engineer and machine learning practitioner with experience building scalable ETL pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and production ML services on GCP and Hadoop ecosystems. I deliver performance improvements, reduce operational incidents, and enable data-driven decisions through optimized data models and dashboarding.

My background spans end-to-end ML solutions from dataset construction and deep learning model development to deployment and monitoring; projects include YOLOv8 image models, ESRGAN-enhanced object detection, and instruction-tuning experiments with Llama-2. I have repeatedly cut pipeline runtimes, improved model accuracy, and reduced costs across roles.

I mentor and lead cross-functional teams, evangelize code quality and reliability practices, and implement repeatable CI/CD and validation frameworks to accelerate delivery while maintaining system stability and data quality.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Data Engineer III

Wayfair

Nov 2024 - Aug 2025 (9 months)

Built scalable ETL workflows on GCP using Scala and Python processing terabytes in BigQuery and Airflow, reducing manual intervention by 50% and cutting pipeline runtime by 83% via Spark and Kafka optimizations.

Scala Python GCP BigQuery Airflow Spark Kafka DBT RESTful APIs

Data Scientist

BNMC Inc.

Mar 2024 - Nov 2024 (8 months)

Built modular preprocessing and training pipelines on GCP and engineered a YOLOv8 model on 100,000+ images achieving 95% accuracy, improving data quality and real-time detection with Kafka integrations.

YOLOv8 PyTorch CUDA GCP Kafka Data Validation Image Processing Cloud Storage

Research Assistant

University at Buffalo

Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 (6 months)

Constructed training datasets and implemented a TensorFlow model to classify mythological figures in Bengal scrolls, achieving 84% accuracy through preprocessing with OpenCV and scikit-learn.

TensorFlow OpenCV scikit learn Pandas data preprocessing Image Processing Hyperparameter Tuning

Machine Learning Engineer

Visionindia Software Exports Limited

Jan 2019 - Aug 2022 (3 years 7 months)

Built and deployed forecasting models with Python and Spark reducing holding costs by 18%, engineered ETL pipelines with PostgreSQL and Airflow improving model accuracy and reducing execution time by 20%.

Python Spark PostgreSQL Airflow Snowflake Kafka Docker CI CD Power BI

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Master of Science, Data Science

2022 - 2024

Activities and societies: Projects: AI teaching assistant (GPT-3.5, BERT), ESRGAN+Attention with YOLOv5 for drone imagery, instruction-tuning exploration with OpenAI and HuggingFace.

Completed a Master of Science in Data Science with projects in NLP, computer vision, and deep learning, including development of AI-driven applications and super-resolution GANs for object detection.