Senior technologist.

Backend, Data & AI · IC & Tech Lead

15+ years across backend engineering, data science, AI-oriented systems, teaching, and startup leadership. Currently based in Berlin.

Focus Areas

Backend Engineering Python, Scala, Kotlin, Java, SQL. Flask, REST APIs, Spring Boot, Docker, Spark, Kafka, AWS, Hadoop.

Data & ML Engineering Spark, Airflow, Applied ML, NLP, CRF, Scikit-learn, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j.

Technical Leadership Strategic Partnerships, Mentorship, Team Coaching, Legacy Migration, Monitoring, CI/CD, Technical Debt Reduction.

Product & Strategy Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Teaching, EdTech product development, Fund Management (~1.3M EUR).

Senior IC (Backend & Data) Zalando SE · May 2025 – Present · Berlin

Architected cross-team multi-carrier injection hub improving logistics fulfilment coverage; increased avg. daily shipping by ~120 units for Netherlands & Sweden
Built tier-2 bridge application consolidating cross-system context for fulfilment planning
Co-authored operational review tool adopted by 6 teams in the department

Senior Data Science Engineer Collective[i] · Oct 2016 – Apr 2022 · US

Built a daily data deduplication pipeline using Spark on Airflow to process ~10M entities, achieving 10X speed gain over the prior system
Co-developed ML system predicting deal win probability, close time, and customer revenue from B2B sales pipeline
Established engineering foundations for the DS team: monitoring dashboards, CI/CD, legacy code migration, technical debt reduction
Mentored developers and drove cross-team engineering practices

Data Scientist x.ai · Oct 2014 – Sep 2016 · US

Built CRF-based email parser that outperformed Mailgun's production system by ~15% F1 on signature detection
Designed and maintained dashboards for annotation quality, model performance, and business KPIs

CEO (Incubator) SPTBI (Tech Incubator) · May 2024 – May 2025

Professor of Practice Sardar Patel Institute of Technology · Aug 2023 – May 2025

Teaching: Data Structures, Advanced Algorithms, Business Analytics (undergrad & MTech)
Mentorship: Advised 14 technical project groups; redesigned Data Structures syllabus as convenor
Papers published in international conferences: 5+

Co-founder Sixladders · June 2024

Virtual Fitting Advanced AI-driven solutions for Virtual fitting

Accessibility Enhancing accessibility for people with disabilities

Creditworthiness Hybrid Optimisation & Explainability-Driven Framework for Creditworthiness Assessment

Dermatological AI Wavelet-Enhanced Transformer Architecture for Dermatological Image Analysis

Risk Prediction Comparative Analysis of Optimized Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Credit Risk Prediction

Opinion Mining Revify: An Agentic Opinion Mining System for Product Reviews

MS in Computer Science Columbia University, NY · Sep 2013 - May 2014

BE in Information Technology Sardar Patel College of Engg, Mumbai University, Mumbai · Aug 2004 - May 2008