Nischal Padmanabha
Director Data Science And Data Engineering
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNischal Padmanabha is an AI and technology leader with 12 years of experience building data, ML and MLOps platforms across startups and scale-ups, now directing Data Science and Data Engineering at Agreena in Berlin. He has led rapid team growth and productization—scaling engineering teams from single digits to 50 while helping secure Series A funding—while architecting end-to-end Document AI, recommendation systems, knowledge graphs and LLM-based co-pilots. Nischal combines hands-on engineering (from Java and Spark to production ML pipelines) with strategic leadership, having built large-scale product onboarding and data ingestion systems that moved thousands of SKUs per day. He mentors early-stage teams and data science learners, bridging academic techniques and industry-ready data products. Comfortable with both cloud and on-prem deployments, he brings a rare mix of ontology-driven knowledge-graph thinking and practical ML engineering to make models explainable and operational. Based in Berlin, he also has entrepreneurial roots as a co-founder and a consistent focus on turning complex research into deployable business value.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBCA Computer Science, BCA Computer Science at NATIONAL COLLEGE JAYANAGAR
English, German
Stackoverflow
435reputation
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7answers
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Github Skills (72)
python10
dataclasses10
argparse10
nlp10
derived10
environment-variables10
toml10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
yaml9
cli9
transformer9
transformers9
language-model9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nischalhp/TweetLyze
Feb 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:355 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
deep-learning-for-humans/fontastic
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Deep Learning to classify fonts
Contributions:47 commits, 16 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 6 months
caffe2deep-learningneural-networksfontsclassify-fonts
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