Vatsal Shah
Senior Data Scientist 2
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVatsal Shah is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience designing and shipping 0→1 AI products and scalable personalization systems at Credit Karma, impacting a user base of over 120M members. He has led generative AI safety and retrieval-augmented generation efforts to reduce hallucinations and improve retrieval performance, while previously driving deep learning-based feed ranking and ad-revenue optimization that produced double-digit uplift across experiments. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he has built real-time services and large-scale feature pipelines, mentored junior scientists, and aligned ML work closely with product and business goals. His academic background in data science from USC and early work on NLP topic modeling and HPC optimization underpin a pragmatic blend of research rigor and production engineering. Notably, he pairs a hands-on engineering approach with a strong focus on model safety and measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science (Data Science), Master’s Degree Computer Science (Data Science) at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at University of MumbaiHigh School Physical Sciences, High School Physical Sciences at Lilavatibai Podar Senior Secondary School
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
Github Skills (21)
evaluation8
image-processing4
topic-modeling4
lda4
python4
modeling4
scale3
natural-language-processing3
nlp3
computer-vision3
machine-learning3
llm3
large-scale3
polarity2
data-science2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kabrapratik28/DeepVideos
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 month
pythoncomputer-visionimage-processingvideovideo-generation
vatsalgit/Economics_of_Innovation
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Identify trends in large scale text data in form of academic publications using topic modeling, NLP and machine learning
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
nlpscale-textldadata-scienceidentify-trends
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