Somnath Rakshit
Senior Data Scientist
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolSomnath Rakshit is a Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech with 11 years of experience building high-performance ML systems for large-scale retail problems. He combines a strong research background in bioinformatics and computer vision from UT Austin and University of Warsaw with hands-on MLOps expertise—having deployed 100+ models, engineered CI/CD and observability, and achieved a 200x inference speedup through vectorization. At Walmart he architects scalable serving solutions (load balancing, auto-scaling, security and rate limiting) and operational tooling to meet strict SLAs for high-volume traffic. Comfortable moving from model development to production optimization, he also has a history of turning unstructured healthcare and news data into actionable insights via CNNs and NER. Based in Fayetteville, AR, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Science/Studies, Masters Information Science/Studies at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
somnathrakshit/AzureNotebooks
Dec 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 push in 6 years 4 months
hostingnotebookstrackingazure
somnathrakshit/somnathrakshit.github.io
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:328 commits, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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