Vinayak Agarwal

Checkmate offers luxury serviced apartments, villas and home-stays in Uttarakhand. There is a keen focus on innovative and sustainable design and earthy experiences. The long term vision is to be a leader in sustainable luxury hospitality, inspiring and educating our guests to adopt eco-friendly practices and create a positive impact on society and the environment.

• Revamped the social media outreach leading to 3x increase in followers on Instagram and a 5000% increase in accounts reached (approx 1.5M) through social media platforms
• Streamlined parental communication channels through automated flows
• Initiated the Alumni association with a long term of vision of building a stronger community
• Advancing the tech infrastructure for Smart classes, computer

Worked as Strategic Partner at Shoeon.

Pioneered a Hold Booking (Book@0) feature, enabling users to reserve flight bookings at zero cost; Led to a remarkable increase in International flight sales; Subsequently integrated by all other MakeMyTrip divisions; Awarded employee of the Month, Jan 2023 for my efforts

Reduced monthly net discounts by implementing a dynamic discounting mechanism to ensure price parity with competitors while preserving user booking conversion for domestic flights

Developed automated workflows in the chatbot and personalised the free text search bar. These efforts led to lower bounce rates and improved customer interactions.

Worked as Data Science Intern at MakeMyTrip.

• Ideated and developed a web scraping model for identification and extraction of newspaper content( title, body, image, publication date) based on CSS styles. Designed an xgboost classifier using python keras to obtain 87% accuracy.
• Implemented asynchronous multiprocessing to python scripts to increase data extraction efficiency by 4 times
• Created a word document generator for a Django applic

• Designed a Convolutional Neural Network in MATLAB for classification of thermal images to track and identify objects as a part of Automatic Target Recognition.
• Achieved 90% accuracy in classification of 3 targets.
• Developed a Horizon detection model using opencv and MATLAB.

Graduated with an advanced major in Computer Science.