Summary
Soutik Chakraborty is a Manager of Data Science & Engineering based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building real-time, multimodal ML systems and analytics at scale, currently leading cross-functional teams at Apple. He has a strong track record in streaming media—pioneering on-device CoreML solutions, LSTM-based bandwidth prediction for embedded platforms, and building self-serve monitoring and live analytics tooling that supported major launches like Apple TV+. Comfortable across the ML lifecycle, he blends hands-on modeling, A/B experimentation, data engineering, and product-facing dashboarding to improve user experience for billions of devices. His background spans enterprise analytics, fraud detection, and forecasting from roles at Happy Money and Fractal Analytics, and he holds advanced training in AI and data science from Stanford and the University of Washington. A detail that stands out: he’s transitioned weekly operational reporting and Heroku-based triage apps into production workflows that materially reduced incident time-to-resolution for streaming teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, IM - Data Science & Analytics, Master’s Degree, IM - Data Science & Analytics at University of Washington
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Mumbai
Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi