Akash Shah
Applied Researcher 1 at eBay
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Shah is an applied researcher with a decade of experience using computer science and statistics to build ML-driven systems that inform business decisions. Currently at eBay, he focuses on advancing shipping through AI, and previously applied ML to identity fraud at TransUnion and returns optimization at Optoro. He combines academic rigor from a UC San Diego MS in Data Science with hands-on engineering experience across finance and research environments. Akash also mentors early-career data scientists (including a stint with edX/MIT) and has a practical bent for moving models into production under real-world constraints. Notably, his career blends product-focused impact with mentoring and cross-domain adaptability, making him effective at translating complex analytics into operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelors, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of TechnologyToronto Metropolitan University
English, Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
Github Skills (20)
pytorch-lightning9
time-series-forecasting8
time-series7
machine-learning7
deep-learning6
slack6
pytorch6
dbt5
data-modeling5
r5
apache-spark4
ide4
analytics4
dplyr4
spark3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akashshah59/impact-of-covid-on-politics
Dec 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
akashshah59/banking-fraud-detector
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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