Summary
Manirupa Das is a Senior Data Scientist with 8+ years building production ML for search, ranking and AI-driven products across e-commerce and digital health. Currently splitting time between leading Search DS & Ranking at The Home Depot and shaping AI product research at a digital health stealth startup, she combines hands-on applied science experience from Amazon with deep academic training as a PhD candidate at Ohio State. Her background spans the full ML lifecycle—research, feature engineering, modeling, and deployment—across high-throughput search systems and consumer-facing recommendations. Colleagues note she brings a pragmatic research mindset to product teams, translating novel models into measurable business impact. Based in Columbus, Ohio, she leverages a long software engineering foundation (early roles in supercomputing and libraries) to bridge robust engineering practices with cutting-edge ML.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer & Information Sciences, MS Computer & Information Sciences at University of Mississippi
St Therese's High School
Ph.D. Computer Science & Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, B.E. Computer Science and Engineering at Goa Engineering College (GEC)