Samay Kapadia
Applied Science Manager at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSamay Kapadia is an Applied Science Manager and Principal ML Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building and leading data science and ML teams across e‑commerce and SaaS. He has a strong track record shipping production ML systems—low‑latency serving across 40+ countries, CLV and churn models, uplift modeling for vouchers—and is fluent in Spark, LightGBM, Keras, NLP, and MLOps tools like Airflow and Kubernetes. As a manager he combines roadmap and team-building experience with hands‑on technical leadership, having grown search and personalization teams through rigorous A/B testing and clear “ways of working.” He’s equally comfortable driving research-to-production pipelines and bringing infrastructure best practices (Terraform, containerized deployment) to engineering teams. A practical mentor and pragmatist, he often bridges economists, applied scientists and engineers to turn business questions into measurable ML solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dhirubhai Ambani International SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics at University of Rochester
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (200)
datasets10
tabular10
modular10
llmops10
julia10
jupyterlab-extension10
azure-openai10
llm10
programming-language10
python10
api-client10
pandas-dataframe10
max10
rust-language10
pipeline10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sa-/slicefunk
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 commits in 9 months
mojo-data/arrow.mojo
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Apache Arrow in Mojo🔥
Contributions:10 reviews, 32 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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