Summary
Hrushikesh 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, Odisha
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay