Manas Kar
Founder & CEO at Curiflow
Mumbai, Maharashtra, United States
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Top SchoolManas Kar is a founder and AI leader with 10 years of experience building production NLP and ML platforms that automate high-value enterprise workflows. He founded Curiflow to help teams build their first AI co-worker after scaling Episource’s AI division from scratch and later leading NLP & Data Science at Optum, where his platforms powered products generating $100M+ in revenue and automated over $25M annually. Known for hands-on development early in projects, he has architected systems processing over a billion pages per year and orchestrated teams of 40+ engineers while hiring and managing 100+ people. His background blends an MBA in Decision Sciences with practical NLP training from IIIT-H and reinforcement learning exposure at UC Berkeley, enabling him to translate business needs into technical roadmaps. He mentors and speaks on applied text analytics and has repeatedly taken research-grade models into reliable production. Based in Mumbai, he combines operator-level execution with a founder’s product vision to make AI deliver measurable enterprise value.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2 Day Bootcamp Deep Reinforcement Learning , 2 Day Bootcamp Deep Reinforcement Learning at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Decision Sciences & Analytics, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Decision Sciences & Analytics at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)Advanced Summer School on NLP Computational Linguistics, Advanced Summer School on NLP Computational Linguistics at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hons.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hons.) at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
English, Hindi, Odia, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
sentence-embeddings10
gensim10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
word2vec10
python10
corpus10
arabic-nlp10
data-mining10
machine-learning10
word-embeddings10
information-retrieval10
lda10
fasttext10
natural-language-processing10
topic-modeling10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
manasRK/word2vec-recommender
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 months
nlpword-embeddingsembeddingsrecommendationrecommendation-engine
manasRK/glove-gensim
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 months
nlpglove-vectorsvectorsgensimconverting
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