Piyush Puranik
Lead Data Scientist
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPiyush Puranik is a Lead Data Scientist with eight years of experience blending applied machine learning, statistics, and production engineering to tackle real-world problems in responsible gambling and research infrastructure. Based in Las Vegas, he designs and manages data and web infrastructure for AiR HUB and the UNLV International Gaming Institute, translating academic rigor from his PhD into robust pipelines and anomaly-detection systems. His background spans firmware and embedded C work to large-scale time-series modeling with Spark, Pandas, and PostgreSQL, giving him a rare full-stack data science perspective. A vocal advocate for open-source and user-centered software, he prioritizes offline-first, extensible designs that respect users over subscription metrics. Notably, his research introduced novel unsupervised approaches for tracking risky gambling behavior that have been operationalized into analytics platforms.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95 / 4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95 / 4 at University of Nevada-Las VegasSavitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (27)
sdn7
earth7
ethernet7
switch7
daemon6
decentralization6
virtual-network6
networking6
dbus6
peer-to-peer6
vpn5
steam-api4
linux4
dictionary4
customisation4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
preppie22/BitmapLib
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
preppie22/malware-classifier
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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