Summary
Shiv Tavker is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon with eight years of experience applying ML, NLP, CV and optimization to product-scale problems like price prediction, demand forecasting, image and text matching, and QA. A dual-degree Data Science graduate from IIT Madras, he blends strong academic foundations in bandits and probabilistic ML with hands-on production work across Amazon teams. He has led web and mobile engineering efforts at IIT Madras, shipping MEAN-stack apps, push notifications, GPS features and live video streaming, and has improved large-scale text summarization accuracy during a Data Science internship at American Express. Active in the math community and an occasional chess player, Shiv brings a pragmatic research-driven approach that bridges experimentation, deployable models, and user-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Hindi, English, Marathi, Gujarati