Aravind Balakrishnan
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Aviva Canada
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAravind Balakrishnan is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 9 years of software engineering experience and 2+ years focused on building classical and deep learning production pipelines. He combines strong Python engineering practices with practical ML lifecycle automation, currently leading fraud detection and mitigation efforts for Aviva Direct. His background includes reinforcement learning research for autonomous driving at the University of Waterloo and applied decision-making and motion-planning work for Gatik’s level 4 delivery trucks. Comfortable across research and production, he bridges RL theory and scalable ML systems, and is driven by a curiosity about the future of learning algorithms. Based in Toronto, he brings a blend of academic rigor and industry pragmatism that surfaces in robust, research-informed solutions for safety- and risk-sensitive domains.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ISC ICSE, ISC ICSE at Sarvodaya VidyalayaBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National Institute of Technology CalicutMaster of Mathematics Computer Science, Master of Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Malayalam
Github Skills (10)
lifecycle8
ai7
python7
incremental-learning7
apache-spark7
machine-learning7
dvc7
model-management7
mlflow6
ml4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
arvinbalak/lstm-projectile-motion
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
arvinbalak/ml-code-snippets
Jul 2019 - Aug 2021
Practice for ML algorithms
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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