Ernest S Kirubakaran
Director - Data Science
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolErnest S Kirubakaran is a data science leader based in Bengaluru with nearly two decades of technology experience and a decade focused specifically on applied machine learning and analytics. He has led data science functions across enterprise and startup environments—most recently as Director of Data Science at 6sense after senior leadership roles at Zeotap, HARMAN and Apty—delivering production ML systems that drive customer experience and business decisions. Ernest blends hands-on model research and scalable engineering with people leadership, mentoring teams while owning end-to-end deployment and monitoring of live models. His background in physics and an MBA gives him a rare mix of quantitative rigor and business acumen, enabling him to translate strategic problems into actionable analytics frameworks. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic about production constraints yet curious about novel modeling approaches, often focusing on business-critical use cases rather than academic abstraction.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, -, Secondary School, - at St Antonys Higher Secondary School, ThanjavurM.Sc, Physics, M.Sc, Physics at Bharathiar UniversityB.Sc., Physics, B.Sc., Physics at Manonmaniam Sundaranar UniversityMBA, Business Administration, MBA, Business Administration at Bharathidasan Institute of Management TiruchirapalliHigher Secondary, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Higher Secondary, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology at St. John's Higher Secondary School
Tamil, English
Stackoverflow
1,534reputation
262kreached
45answers
2questions
python
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
python9
portable7
java7
gradient7
machine-learning7
pip6
scalable6
moviepy6
pydot6
distributed-systems6
matrix6
numpy6
scala6
xgboost6
pandas6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ernest-s/Data-Hacks
May 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:74 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
ernest-s/Project-Euler
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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