Ramesh Baral
Principal Data Scientist
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRamesh Baral is a Principal Data Scientist in Durham, NC with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and recommendations for large enterprises. He designs personalization and GenAI products for financial services at Fidelity, and previously created hybrid GNN-based recommenders, multimodal movie and music recommenders, and knowledge graphs at Xperi. His background blends a PhD-level research focus on explainable and multi-aspect recommender systems with hands-on engineering across PyTorch/DGL, TensorFlow, PySpark, Neo4j and AWS. Ramesh has a track record of turning research prototypes into scalable production services—evidenced by end-to-end systems from preference elicitation to cold-start solutions and automated data pipelines. He also brings early-career strengths in systems automation and performance optimization, having saved substantial human effort through workflow and file-acquisition tooling. Curious and interdisciplinary, he pairs deep algorithmic knowledge with practical software delivery to solve complex personalization and LLM-driven use cases.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Tribhuwan University, Prithvi Narayan CampusDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Florida International UniversityB.E Software Engineering, B.E Software Engineering at Pokhara Vishwavidalaya (Gandaki College Of Engineering and Science)
English, Nepali, Spanish, Hindi
Github Skills (39)
convolutional-neural-networks9
yelp9
attention-mechanism9
scraper9
crawler9
scrapy9
classification8
python8
crawling8
fasttext8
reward8
php-mysql7
nlp7
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rbaral/Coding-Challenge
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
rbaral/AngularJS_Ecommerce
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
mysqlecommercephpjavascriptshopping-cart
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