Experience

Pulkit Saxena

ML Engineer & Data Scientist · 5+ yrs · Fintech · Telecom · Research

Professional Experience

Production Engineering Across Three Industries

University of Rochester
Data Scientist
Aug 2024 – Present Rochester, NY
$50K / yr saved
  • Implemented hybrid rule-based + Isolation Forest anomaly detection for vendor invoices, saving $50K/year
  • Built research analytics platform processing 800GB+ institutional data for data-driven hiring and impact assessments
  • Improved data prep efficiency by 30% for 2k+ pages by architecting a JSON extraction pipeline using Gemma 3/Ollama
BigQuery Python dbt MLflow Isolation Forest Docker Gemma 3/Ollama
T-Mobile USA
Credit Risk Management (Data Science) Intern
May 2023 – Aug 2023 Overland Park, KS
75% faster
  • Engineered automated Risk Strategy Simulation Tool, boosting team productivity by 40%
  • Built RCA-inclusive alerts to detect policy deviations, reducing investigation time by 75%
  • Modernized legacy SAS pipeline to Python, enabling version control, reproducibility, and MLOps integration
Python Snowflake Databricks Pandas SAS Migration
RedCarpetUp.com (YC S15)
Data Scientist
Apr 2019 – Jan 2021 New Delhi, India
500K+ users
  • Owned end-to-end product development for credit risk assessment platform serving 500,000+ users
  • Implemented XGBoost-based credit risk models with A/B testing across 4,000+ customers
  • Led cross-functional teams achieving 40% month-over-month credit disbursal growth
XGBoost Python Docker Flask PostgreSQL Airflow A/B Testing
RedCarpetUp.com (YC S15)
Software Engineer
Oct 2017 – Mar 2019 New Delhi, India
80% automated
  • Built CRM system for 500,000+ users with Flask and PostgreSQL, streamlining data management and analytics
  • Implemented image processing for KYC document verification, automating 80% of the process
  • Led team of 4–5 engineers and interns, owning sprint planning, code reviews, and delivery
Flask PostgreSQL Python REST APIs Image Processing
Foodpost
Full Stack Developer Intern
Jan 2016 – Mar 2016 Gurugram, India
  • Developed RESTful APIs and performed database operations using PHP (Codeigniter) and SQL
  • Upgraded front-end (HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap) and conducted load tests using jMeter
PHP SQL Bootstrap jMeter

Education

Academic Background

M.S. Data Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Aug 2022 – May 2024
Machine Learning · Statistical Analysis · Big Data Analytics · Database Systems
B.E. Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Aug 2012 – May 2017
Data Structures · Algorithms · Database Management · Software Engineering

Technical Skills

Technology Stack

AI & ML

Ollama Gemma 3 LangChain Agentic AI scikit-learn MLflow XGBoost Isolation Forest A/B Testing

Data Engineering

dbt Airflow Dagster ETL/ELT SQLAlchemy Alembic Spark PySpark Schema Evolution

Cloud & Big Data

GCP/BigQuery AWS SageMaker AWS S3 Snowflake Databricks PostgreSQL

Infrastructure & Tools

Docker DevContainers Git GitLab CI/CD Linux Flask Dash Posit Connect Tableau

Languages

Python SQL R C++ Bash

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Research

2017
Peer Reviewed
IEEE SmartTechCon
Bangalore, India
Peer-to-peer Knowledge Sharing Platform for Farmers with Auto-Recommendation Feature

Developed an intelligent recommendation system for agricultural knowledge sharing, enabling farmers to access relevant information and best practices through a peer-to-peer platform with automated suggestion capabilities.

Recommendation Systems Machine Learning Agricultural Tech Python
DOI: 10.1109/SmartTechCon.2017.8358498

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