Nitin Samala is a Staff Data Scientist with 9+ years of experience building production-scale ML and RL systems for supply chain, inventory, and compliance at Walmart Global Tech. He blends deep academic training (MS CS, UMass Amherst) with hands-on expertise in GNNs, multi-agent RL, LLM-driven agentic pipelines, and multimodal GenAI, repeatedly translating research into measurable business impact (e.g., saving hours per GM, reducing complaint tickets, and improving shelf availability). Comfortable across the stack, he engineers GPU-accelerated training, distributed data pipelines (BigQuery, PySpark, Airflow), and annotation/automation frameworks that handle hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of data points. He holds peer-reviewed publications and a Franz Edelman Award distinction, and has filed patents while operationalizing complex models in production. Colleagues note his knack for framing novel problems (e.g., graph-based supply chain simulation) and shipping pragmatic systems that close the loop between model research and operational metrics.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
High School, High School at All Saints' High School
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Intermediate(10+2) MPC(Math Physics Chemistry), Intermediate(10+2) MPC(Math Physics Chemistry) at Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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