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Kishore Sunil Kumar

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Director of Data Science at Crest Pay · embeddings, Spark

Works at
Crest Pay
Location
Thiruvananthapuram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
IIT Bombay
Languages
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

I lead recommendation systems at Crest Pay in Thiruvananthapuram. Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 2.2%. Before that: Flipkart and TCS. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on Python decisions
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Skills
SparkembeddingsPyTorchPython
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

3 data scientist roles open on the recommendations team in Thiruvananthapuram

Role
Data scientist
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹42-55 LPA
Team
Recommendations, 18 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹38-57 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Thiruvananthapuram, India · remote OKpytorchsparkpython
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Data Science
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Crest Pay · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Taught SQL to 68 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 56 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 6 product decisions a quarter.
  2. Staff Data Scientist
    Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
    Flipkart · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 2.5%.
    • Taught SQL to 125 non-analysts.
  3. Senior Data Scientist
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
    TCS · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Data Analyst
    Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
    Groww · 2 yr · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
  5. Staff Data Scientist
    Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
    Nykaa · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 8.8%.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2023

Built with PyTorch and embeddings. 951 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from recommendations
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling recommendation systems.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay
    B.Tech, Operations Research
    2002 - 2006

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