Summary
Vinayaka Kamath is a Data Scientist II at Microsoft with nine years of experience applying machine learning and computer vision to real-world products, from marketplace analytics at BingAds to cognition-inspired vision research at A*STAR. He has bridged research and production repeatedly—reducing COGS through applied ML at Microsoft Research, building event-driven services at Couchbase, and shipping vision-based features that generated revenue in industry internships. Comfortable with AB experimentation, counterfactual modeling, and metric design, he focuses on explainability and stable testing for marketplace movements. An early contributor to accessibility-focused AI (parsing scientific diagrams) and a FOSS tech advocate, he combines strong academic foundations from PES University with hands-on engineering across research labs and startups. Notably, his background spans both low-level system work and high-level experimental design, making him effective at translating research insights into scalable product impact.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) with Honors, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) with Honors, Computer Science at PES University