Vivek Gupta

Vivek Gupta

Staff Machine Learning Engineer/
10+ yrs experienceAgentic AI & MLBangalore
Bangalore, India

Worked at

  • PayPal logo
  • Cars24 logo
  • Bain & Company logo
  • IndMoney logo

Verified Credentials

Claude Certified Architect, Foundations, issued by Anthropic

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About

I bring over a decade of experience applying machine learning and generative AI across diverse domains and complex problems. I have built end-to-end agentic workflows and RAG pipelines, and I am comfortable translating business goals into data products and architecting the whole pipeline from concept to production.

I have led teams and shipped ML systems from idea to production across fintech, eCommerce, and consulting, in both startup and enterprise environments.

Education

2010 - 2014

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur logo

B.Tech., Bio Science

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

Kanpur, India

Experience

  1. Dec 2024 - Present

    MTS-1 Machine Learning Engineer · PayPal

    Bangalore, India

    • Led architecture and 0-to-1 delivery of the KYC Ops Assistant, a production agentic AI service (LangGraph, CrewAI) on a fintech compliance surface, defining the orchestration layer for models, tools, memory, and decision-making. Doubled KYC conversions in 3 months.
    • Designed the RAG pipeline (chunking, embeddings, vector retrieval, hybrid search, re-ranking, citation enforcement) and integrated multiple MCP tools, exposing internal services as guarded, schema-validated agent tools.
    • Building an internal LLM evaluation and observability platform used across DS and ML teams: agent evals, regression harnesses, LLM-as-judge, guardrails, and offline plus online evaluation tied to quality, latency, hallucination, and cost.
    • Fine-tuning LLMs as digital agents (Venmo) using SFT and RLHF (PPO, GRPO) on multi-GPU clusters, owning training, evaluation, monitoring, and production rollout.
    • LangGraph
    • CrewAI
    • RAG
    • MCP
    • SFT
    • RLHF
    • PyTorch
    • LLM-as-judge
  2. Nov 2021 - Dec 2024

    Lead Data Scientist · Cars24

    Bangalore, India

    • Managed a team of 5 data scientists: hired, set roadmap and priorities, ran code and model reviews, and mentored on system tradeoffs and production reliability.
    • Owned the Dynamic Pricing Engine end to end (CatBoost), delivering a 4% gross-margin lift at scale with SHAP explainability and A/B testing as source of truth, designed around latency, cost, and conversion-velocity tradeoffs.
    • Built and rolled out reusable team-level backend platforms for feature engineering, experimentation, deployment, and monitoring, adopted across product squads and reducing time-to-production.
    • CatBoost
    • SHAP
    • A/B testing
    • PySpark
    • BigQuery
    • MLOps
  3. Mar 2020 - Oct 2021

    Senior Associate, Data Science · Bain & Company

    Bangalore, India

    • Embedded technical advisor for Fortune-500 retail and telecom leadership: scoped workstreams and translated model behavior into executive decisions.
    • Built demand-forecasting and price-optimization models (LightGBM, Hyperopt) that cut promotion spend by 5%.
    • Built NLP pipelines (topic modeling, sentiment) for a telecom client's churn strategy.
    • LightGBM
    • Hyperopt
    • NLP
    • Topic modeling
    • Python
  4. Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

    Lead Data Scientist · IndMoney

    Gurgaon, India · 10th employee

    • Built and shipped the Mutual Fund Recommendation & Ranking Engine (XGBoost plus similarity ranking), a production fintech personalisation surface serving end users daily.
    • Designed an AI-driven SMS transaction-parsing system (NER plus supervised text classification) for large-scale data enrichment and classification, with a labeling pipeline that continuously improved precision and recall on edge cases.
    • Established the data-science function from scratch as the 10th employee, owning the end-to-end lifecycle.
    • XGBoost
    • NER
    • Text classification
    • Recommendation
    • Python
  5. Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

    Data Scientist · Cogneau Systems

    Gurgaon, India

    • Optimized a distribution-center network for a Malaysian logistics customer using DBSCAN, cutting operations cost by 30%.
    • DBSCAN
    • Clustering
    • Python
    • Optimization
  6. Nov 2016 - Sep 2017

    Data Scientist · Simpli5d Technologies

    Gurgaon, India

    • Built a real-time bot-detection classifier (Random Forest on Spark / PySpark) processing 10M+ user sessions per day across 120+ publishers.
    • Designed the Spark feature pipeline and distributed-data infra for high-throughput, low-latency event processing.
    • Random Forest
    • Spark
    • PySpark
    • Real-time
    • Feature engineering
  7. Aug 2014 - Feb 2015

    Trainee Decision Scientist · Mu Sigma

    Bangalore, India

    • Analyzed search-advertising KPIs across Asia Pacific for Bing Ads.
    • Analytics
    • SQL
    • Search advertising

Projects

Certifications

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations

Anthropic · 2026

Long-Term Agentic Memory With LangGraph

DeepLearning.AI · 2026

Generative AI: Working with Large Language Models

LinkedIn Learning · 2023

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Coursera · 2018

Structuring Machine Learning Projects

Coursera · 2018

Contact

Let's build something.

I'm open to senior and lead engineering roles, remote or hybrid. Email is the fastest way to reach me, or find me on the platforms below.

gvivek2692@gmail.com