Jivesh Poddar
Senior Data Scientist
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolJivesh Poddar is a Senior Data Scientist with seven years of experience applying ML, deep learning, and NLP to large-scale search and personalization problems, currently improving search and recommendation for Walmart International from Sunnyvale. He has a strong academic grounding from Northeastern (MS Data Science) and practical MLOps expertise—instrumenting model monitoring, versioning, and cloud serving for production ranking systems. His background spans satellite image forecasting at ISRO to building click-and-go ML tooling and NLP-driven synonyms and retrieval systems using FAISS/Annoy, showing both research rigor and product delivery. Colleagues know him as a creative problem-solver and effective communicator who breaks complex problems into deployable solutions and is quick to onboard new domains. Notably, he combines deep algorithmic understanding with hands-on engineering across XGBoost, neural re-rankers, and large-scale data pipelines.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information and Communication Technology, A, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information and Communication Technology, A at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhi NagarHigher Secondary, Science (PCM), 92.6%, Higher Secondary, Science (PCM), 92.6% at Prakash Higher Secondary SchoolMaster's degree, Data Science, A, Master's degree, Data Science, A at Northeastern University
Hindi, English, GujaratiGithub contributions (5)
JIVESH2212/EMBEDDED-SYSTEMS
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
JIVESH2212/Data-File-And-Structures
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 day
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