Neel p
@neelp
Lead Data Scientist and Engineer delivering scalable AI products and models.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a business-oriented lead data scientist and engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable applications, production ML/AI models, and award-winning products. I have deep expertise in NLP, LLM families, prompt engineering, MLOps, and deploying cost-effective inference solutions that reduce operational cost and improve performance.
I have led and scaled teams, shipped high-throughput data pipelines and analytics platforms, and developed conversational agents, monitoring tools, and custom evaluation frameworks. I enjoy solving unconventional technical challenges and collaborating with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable impact.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Data Scientist
Barraiser
Led scientific prompt engineering across major LLM families, built guardrails and monitoring tools that reduced prompt engineering time 6x and cut inference costs via fine-tuning and prompt downsizing (22x and 8x reductions).
Lead Data Scientist
Locobuzz
Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)
Built and grew the data science team from 1 to 10, delivered 15+ NLP projects and deployed scalable sentiment models for 100+ languages while designing ETL and data warehouse pipelines processing 300M daily records.
Data Engineer
Praktice.ai
Jan 2018 - Present (8 years 5 months)
Developed automated medical diagnostic systems and conversational chatbot capabilities to answer clinical questions and assist nursing workflows for a medical chatbot startup.
Founder & CEO
Ibnox.com
Jan 2015 - Present (11 years 5 months)
Founded and incubated a social publishing platform with content recommendation, topic modeling and information retrieval features similar to Medium.com.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Manipal University
Bachelor of Technology, Natural Language Processing / Computer Science
2014 - 2018
Grade: 8.68
Activities and societies: Led development of award-winning products and worked on scalable applications and AI models.
Completed a Bachelor of Technology with focus on scalable applications and natural language processing, graduating with a GPA of 8.68.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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