Manishankar Goswami

SUMMARY

Product, Engineering and Data Leader with extensive experience in building and leading teams to deliver highly scalable and distributed, platforms & products in Cloud and ML space. I have hands-on experience in building and scaling teams from the ground up. Have built many world class products and platforms on Machine Learning and Big Data domain from the ground up and scaled by 50x. Highly passionate about building teams, products, technology and great culture for massively scalable businesses.

Highlights:

- Strong experience in Data Science, Statistics and ML

- Extensive experience in building products powered by Machine Learning.

 - Product engineering and taking a product from ideation to market.

- Deep understanding of Cloud technologies.

- Excellent track record in building and leading teams with technical excellence.

Specialties: Data Science, Machine Learning, ML ops, Design and Architecture of Multi- modal Platforms, Distributed Architecture, REST based Scalable Platforms.

PATENTS

• A Method and System for Dynamic Generation of Mobile Experience. 

       United States 20140229818

• Method and System for Pushing Advertisements during a Video Call based on Identification of Items in the Video Call

United States IPCOM000237355D

• A Method for Preventing Shoulder Surfing

United States IPCOM000235818D

• A Method and System for unlocking functionalities of a portable device

United States IPCOM000226610D

EXPERIENCE

Microsoft

Principal Group Data Scientist Manager

~ 12/2020 - Ongoing

Inmobi 

Director of Engineering (ML and Data)

~ 02/2018 - 12/2020, Bangalore, India

Highlights:

• Built two highly performing engineering teams from ground up within first 90 days of joining.

• Have ideated, designed and delivered two successful products from scratch, one involving fully elastic, on-demand big data product, and other is an end-to-end platform intended to democratize ML across Inmobi.

• The data product helped significantly cut infra and maintenance cost by 70% while ensuring scale.

• The Machine Learning platform significantly improved the time to market metrics of ML model by 80% and cut the infra bill by whopping 90%

• Led the Customer Data Platform team to deliver a highly efficient Segmentation Engine which improved the accuracy by 40% and helped cut-down query cost by 50%

• Build processes & best practices for product strategy, roadmap prioritization and e2e execution

Architect

Walmart Labs 

05/2017 - 11/2017, Bangalore, India

Highlights:

• Helped setup a team of 15 members for data science and engineering.

• Designed & architected the first version of Demand Forecasting Engine, which helped fuel the new set of algorithms which in turn improved the forecasting accuracy by 15%

• Designed and delivered a sandbox platform for data scientists to help perform production grade training from their local machine.

Senior Principal Engineer

Snapdeal

07/2015 - 05/2017 , Bangalore, India

Highlights:

• Built a predictive analytics based feature which helped Snapdeal improve its customer promise accuracy by 80% and hence improve customer acquisition metrics significantly

• Setup a highly performant team from scratch and led it to deliver the first version within first 60 days.

• Led two highly performing and motivated engineering teams which built the Auto Stock Replenisher & Demand Forecasting Engine for Snapdeal

Principal Engineer

Yahoo R&D

~ 07/2010 - 12/2014

Highlights:

• Led, designed & delivered a Media Platform which helped Yahoo automate all mobile content generation for its media properties

• Got the content generation technology patented.

• Worked on many critical features of Yahoo Calendar like next

• generation scheduling and task management.

• Was part of the Open Content Platform which allowed editors to

• contribute contents for Yahoo Toolbar.

Technical Lead

Fastbooking

~ 06/2006 - 07/2010 , Gurgaon, India 

Associate

Wipro Technologies

~ 05/2005 - 06/2006, Bengaluru, India

Alpha Thought Technologies

~ 06/2004 - 01/2005, Noida, India

AWARDS

• Oscars under Best Tech Led Innovation for ML Platform team at Inmobi, 2019

• Snapdeal Employee of the Year, 2016

• Yahoo Ratna (Yahoo India’s highest annual award) in the year 2012

• “U Rock” award at Yahoo in the year 2011

• Fastbooking Employee of the Year in 2009

SKILLS

• Transformational Leadership

• Project Management

• Strategic Planning

• Team Building

• Technical Skills:

  • TensorFlow,

  • Python, 

  • Java, 

  • Hadoop, 

  • Spark, 

  • K8s, 

  • Cassandra,

  • REDIS

  • Aerospike

  • EMR

  • H20

CO-ORDINATES

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishankar/

Email: drop me an email