Shaksham Kapoor
Associate Director Senior Data Scientist
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolShaksham Kapoor is an Associate Director and Senior Data Scientist with 8 years of industry experience and a 5+ year focus on NLP-driven solutions, currently leading advanced people-analytics initiatives at UBS. He combines applied research in sentiment analysis, aspect-opinion coextraction, and lifelong learning with hands-on ML engineering—taking projects from data collection to model deployment and cost-effective productization. A former junior data scientist at AppZen and machine learning engineer at Omdena, he has delivered practical gains like accuracy improvements and abbreviation-resolution algorithms across banking, medical, and HR domains. Beyond product work, he mentors aspiring data scientists through MentorCruise and shares insights at Pune meetups, reflecting a commitment to community and knowledge transfer. Notably, his profile blends formal academic training (BITS Pilani M.Tech in Data Science) with real-world incremental/online learning experience that helps productionize adaptive NLP models.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.7, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 8.7 at Jaypee University of Information TechnologyData Science with Honors, Data Science | Machine Learning, Honors, Data Science with Honors, Data Science | Machine Learning, Honors at WorldQuant University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (60)
tuple10
gesture9
python8
science8
api8
sdk8
intermediate8
simulation8
streaming-data7
online-machine-learning7
google7
incremental-learning7
visualizer7
machine-learning7
pandas7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shaksham95/DS-Resources
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
A curated list of awesome Data Science (DS) resources :love_you_gesture:
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
tupledata-analysispythonsciencedata-science
TeamEpicProjects/Customer_Support_Ticket_Classification
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 comments in 8 days
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