Amrit Purshotam
Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAmrit Purshotam is a Machine Learning Scientist with 11 years of experience, currently building recommender systems at Booking.com from Amsterdam. He combines a strong academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science) with hands-on production ML across e-commerce, banking, insurance, and logistics—projects have ranged from delivery optimization at Takealot to fraud detection and personalized risk scoring. Comfortable bridging software engineering and data science, he began his career as a full-stack developer, shipping APIs and deployment tooling while mentoring growing teams. Known for pragmatic solutions that move models into production, he brings both research-level rigor and product-focused delivery to recommendation and personalization challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of the Witwatersrand
Github Skills (37)
artificial-intelligence10
docker10
web-application10
python10
scale10
baobab10
flask10
multi-tenant10
large-scale9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
fastai8
jquery-plugin8
data-science8
jupyter8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
amritpurshotam/python-seed
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024
Seed project implementing Python best practices
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
seedpythonpython-best-practicesseed-project
amritpurshotam/computer-vision-papers
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Reproduction of the architectures and results of the most significant computer vision papers
Contributions:13 PRs, 44 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
architecturespythonvisiondeep-learningreproduction
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