Pretesh Patel is a Principal Data Scientist Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of applied AI and engineering experience and six years in senior data science roles, combining hands-on model development with customer-facing solution architecture. He holds a PhD in Computational Intelligence and has delivered ML, NLP and computer vision solutions across finance, retail, tax revenue, telecommunications and transportation, including fraud-detection work showcased at major Microsoft conferences. Comfortable moving projects from envisioning and PoV to production, he blends Big Data engineering (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) with research-grade machine learning to solve complex, real-world problems. Based in Greater Vancouver, he is as fluent in pre-sales and partner workshops as he is in building MVPs and enabling customers to operationalize models — a rare mix of academic depth and product-focused delivery.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Phd(Eng), Computational Intelligence, Phd(Eng), Computational Intelligence at University of the Witwatersrand
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