About

Abhishek Kapoor is a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist with over 7 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Fractal, where he leads their Data Science Experimentation Lab, which focuses on solving problems relevant to CPG companies across RTM, Procurement, and People analytics. Abhishek has successfully inked a one-year project retainer on the basis of work accomplished over the past quarter, which is a testament to his exceptional skills and expertise. Abhishek has worked on several projects during his tenure at Fractal, including Next Basket Predictions, where he created, tested, deployed, and scaled the solution in multiple markets in AMEA, and is currently working on extending it to NA and other regions. He also migrated the solution from HDInsight (Azure) to GCP, and assisted other markets in optimizing code to reduce runtime from three days to three hours. Abhishek's expertise in Risk Modelling has helped him automate risk assessment for auto for small businesses. He modelled insurance risk via the skewed Tweedie distribution using GLMnets, XGBoost, and ensembling techniques, with a focus on interpretability. Abhishek's past experience includes working as a Data Scientist at Brillio, where he primarily worked on SEO analytics for Realtor.com. He harmonized data from Google Search Console API, Adobe Analytics, 3rd party web ranking tools (STAT), server logs, and built and optimized data stores on AWS for use in SEO analytics, and other projects. Abhishek also worked as a Business Analyst at Capgemini, where he worked on customer payments and sales & cash forecasting projects. Abhishek holds an MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, a Diploma in Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Delhi, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (British and Commonwealth) from Delhi University. He is proficient in several technologies, including AWS, Python, NLP, XGBoost, ML, Keras, Spark, Azure, SQL, Computer Vision, Tensorflow, Jenkins, GCP, Sagemaker, Amazon Athena, Sentiment Analysis, Web, Text Classification, AI, RNN, Deep Learning, ETL, and infra. Abhishek's exceptional skills and expertise in Data Science make him a valuable asset to any organization.