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.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Mississippi
B.E., B.E. at National Institute of Technology Goa (formerly Goa College of Engineering)
St Therese's High School
Ph.D., Ph.D. at The Ohio State University