Saikat Das
Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaikat Das is a data scientist with 8 years of experience who blends a PhD-level mathematical background in geometric group theory with practical expertise building and productionizing ML models for commodities and energy markets. He has led end-to-end modeling at Gro Intelligence—deploying 17 flagship supply models with industry-leading MAPEs (2–6%)—and currently applies his forecasting skills to natural gas at Millennium. Comfortable across the stack, he has engineered feature pipelines from geospatial and survey data, containerized experiments in AWS, and implemented monitoring with Airflow and Databricks to drive reproducible, cost-efficient workflows. A founding member of an engineering hiring advocacy group, he also brings proven project leadership and cross-functional coordination that scaled teams and standardized recruitment. Notably, his academic work in geometric topology informs a rigorous, theory-driven approach to feature engineering and model behavior analysis.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Mathematics, Master of Science (MS) Mathematics at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at Rutgers University - NewarkBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Calcutta
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (2)
api-client8
api8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
joysaikat/Data_Science
Mar 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
joysaikat/insight_data_engineering
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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