Achinta Varna
Data Science Manager
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAchinta Varna is a Data Science Manager based in Sydney with 8–9 years of experience building and operationalising AI solutions across financial services and fintech. He currently leads AI and analytics initiatives for Commonwealth Bank’s Home Loan division and previously built AIDEN, an in-house AI platform at MoneyMe that drove multi-million dollar revenue impact and measurable gains in credit and fraud models. Comfortable engaging C-suite stakeholders, he sets OKRs, prioritises complex programs, and mentors data teams while bridging product, finance and engineering. Technically fluent in end-to-end ML (model development, cloud deployment on Microsoft/AWS, monitoring, and CI/CD) and experienced in computer vision, NLP and time-series forecasting, he combines PhD-level computational mathematics training with hands-on production delivery. A practical innovator, he has a track record of turning research-grade methods into revenue-driving, monitored production systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Mathematics/ Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computational Mathematics/ Mechanical Engineering at ETH ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Mathematics/ Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Mathematics/ Mechanical Engineering at UNSW AustraliaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, German, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
rasa-core8
chat-application8
chat6
webchat5
rasa3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
avarna/BlogNotebooks
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
avarna/keras
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Deep Learning library for Python. Runs on TensorFlow, Theano, or CNTK.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
pythoncaffe2theanotensorflowcudnn
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