Avinash Barnwal
Data Science Manager
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolAvinash Barnwal is a Data Science Manager based in Chennai with 11 years of experience applying statistics and machine learning to financial and product problems. He leads data science work at Kapitus and has a strong research pedigree as a PhD candidate in statistics from Stony Brook University, combining academic rigor (3.9/4.0 GPA) with practical impact. His background spans quantitative finance, credit analytics, and crypto investment products, and he has contributed survival modeling improvements to XGBoost through Google Summer of Code. An active practitioner in competitions and writing, he placed in the top 3% on a major Kaggle challenge and authored technical articles on accelerated, high-accuracy approaches to big data. He blends deep probabilistic modeling with production-ready ML to drive business outcomes, and his cross-domain experience means he often finds effective, non-obvious modeling levers in noisy financial signals.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Int. MSc, Statistics and Informatics, 8.1/10.0, Int. MSc, Statistics and Informatics, 8.1/10.0 at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, 3.9/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, 3.9/4.0 at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (200)
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microsoft-azure10
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asp-net10
sendgrid10
dotnet-cli10
dotnet10
powershell10
azure10
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java10
transactional-emails10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vnextcoder/trav
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 4 years 3 months
githubvnext/gitHook
May 2021 - Dec 2022
GitHook WebHook based on Asynchronous WebHook processing
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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