Hrushikesh Mohapatra
Distinguished Data Scientist
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolHrushikesh Mohapatra is a Distinguished Data Scientist with 12 years of experience building large-scale search and query understanding systems, currently leading LLM feature development for core search at Walmart Global Tech. He holds an M.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and has progressed through engineering and principal roles delivering deep learning models for query relevance, domain-adaptive pretraining, and distributed inference in production. His work spans spellcheck, query classification, custom BM25 scoring with weighted synonyms, and ChatGPT-based search improvements—demonstrating a rare blend of IR expertise and modern LLM application. Based in Bengaluru, he combines research-grade modeling with production engineering for high-throughput e-commerce search, and has a background in scaling entity disambiguation and distributed crawling that informs his systems-first approach.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Biju Patnaik University of Technology, OdishaIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (73)
transformers10
python10
deep-learning10
statistics10
transformer10
nlp10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
adapter10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
speech-recognition10
phantomjs9
jax9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hrushikesh198/DelugeSequentialDownload
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
hrushikesh198/docker-hive
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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