Soumya Unnikrishnan is a Senior Data Scientist at Adobe in Mountain View with seven years of experience building AI-driven product features that boost profitability, efficiency, and customer experience for Adobe Experience Cloud. She blends hands-on backend engineering—evident from contributions to high-profile open-source Magento projects improving inventory, checkout, and admin UX—with advanced ML expertise in personalization, reinforcement learning, and ethical AI. Her background spans roles from software engineer to senior data scientist, enabling her to take models from research through MLOps into production. Trained in AI through programs at Stanford SCPD and Texas McCombs, she pairs statistical rigor with product intuition to design intelligent, workflow-optimizing systems. An uncommon strength is her ability to bridge core e-commerce backend systems and cutting-edge personalization models, making her especially effective at tackling real-world data and operational inconsistencies.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
SCPD, Artificial Intelligence, SCPD, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class with Distinction at University of Mumbai
Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning - Business Applications, Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning - Business Applications at The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:313 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Soumya primarily contributed to the Magento 2 codebase, making changes to core modules and components related to customer login functionality and store configuration. These changes involved modifying PHP files to integrate features such as login as customer, store selection logic, and updates to UI components. The contributions suggest a focus on improving the administrative interface and user experience within the Magento e-commerce platform. These changes also included updates to testing files.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Soumya's commits primarily focus on Magento Inventory Project (MSI) improvements. They merged code from a development branch and worked on resolving issues. The user addressed an issue related to numeric SKUs in the inventory reservation CLI and the cart. Their work also involved testing salable quantity inconsistencies and integrating in-store pickup functionality. These changes indicate involvement in core backend functionality.
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