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Neel p

@neelp

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Lead Data Scientist and Engineer delivering scalable AI products and models.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead ML/NLP initiatives, build production-grade AI systems, mentor teams, and work cross-functionally to deliver measurable business impact in a collaborative, product-focused environment.

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

Current

Senior Data Scientist

Current

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).

Prompt Engineering LLM Fine Tuning Python Model Monitoring Prompt Testing Cost Optimization

Lead Data Scientist

Locobuzz

Jan 2022 - Present (3 years 9 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.

NLP Sentiment Analysis Team Leadership ETL Data Warehousing Python Distributed Systems Object Detection

Data Engineer

Praktice.ai

Jan 2018 - Present (7 years 9 months)

Developed automated medical diagnostic systems and conversational chatbot capabilities to answer clinical questions and assist nursing workflows for a medical chatbot startup.

Chatbot Python ETL Data Integration APIs

Founder & CEO

Ibnox.com

Jan 2015 - Present (10 years 9 months)

Founded and incubated a social publishing platform with content recommendation, topic modeling and information retrieval features similar to Medium.com.