Abhinav Awasthi

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Director of Data Science at Goldman Sachs · NLP · information retrieval, evaluation

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
FMS Delhi
English, Hindi, Kannada
Co-founder
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Overview

I've spent 12 years on NLP - first at Tech Mahindra, now at Goldman Sachs. Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week. Most at home with PyTorch and rules engines. Learning to sail.

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Skills
evaluationPyTorchrules enginesinformation retrieval
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for loyalty programmes for gig workers

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for loyalty programmes for gig workers
Stage
Idea
I bring
13 years in NLP
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Bengaluru or remote

I bring 12 years of NLP (currently Goldman Sachs). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Bengaluru, Indiarules enginesevaluationinformation retrieval
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Experience

  1. Director of Data Science
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Goldman Sachs · 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Built the language models now used in 9 product decisions a quarter.
    • Replaced 108 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  2. Senior Data Scientist
    Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
    Siemens · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Taught SQL to 162 non-analysts.
  3. Data Scientist
    Dec 2020 - Dec 2023
    Dream11 · 3 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Replaced 76 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Data Scientist
    Jun 2017 - Aug 2020
    ICICI Bank · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Replaced 78 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  5. Data Scientist
    Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
    Tech Mahindra · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Replaced 109 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

  1. FMS Delhi
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Statistics
    2009 - 2013

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