About

Amogh Desai is a recent Computer Engineering graduate from Mumbai, India, with a passion for diving into uncharted waters and navigating his way toward success in the roles he undertakes. He has worked with data across diverse domains, including Sales, Agriculture, Education, Astronomy, Social Sciences, and Business Strategy in his internships, which has honed his ability to design effective solutions and thrive in unfamiliar situations. Amogh was selected as one of the Top-87 Engineers in India by Economic Times and has been part of coveted programs such as Google Summer of Code and IIIT-H's AI Summer School. He has worked with cross-border teams during his research internship at TokyoTech and the online.tess.science hack sprint. A strong believer in FOSS, Amogh was the co-Founder and Chairperson of Synapse, a university club working on FOSS projects solving everyday problems using ML. Amogh's strong suit is his knack for extracting insights from large amounts of data and operationalizing them to drive product strategy and business growth. He has 3+ years of hands-on experience with Python, Pandas, Dask, Machine Learning, Quantitative Analysis, SQL, and Tableau. He has worked as a Machine Learning Research Intern at Vedantu, where he implemented a scalable framework for “Detection of multiple questions in user-scanned images” using Natural Language Processing with 85% accuracy and 0.8ms throughput, which improved user retention by 9.2x, throughput by 59%, and reduced cloud server costs by 33%. Currently, Amogh is working as a Strategy Intern at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he designed and developed an efficient MAG dataset parser, pre-processing files, reducing the size by 20x, and devised data gathering, combining strategies to get meaningful insights from several datasets, which resulted in reduced overall storage costs by 500% and compute requirements by 200%. Amogh wishes to work at the intersection of technology and business and leverage his skillset to tackle complex, high-priority challenges. He is open to opportunities from around the world and actively contributes to Open Source. Amogh holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Dwarkadas J Sanghvi College of Engineering and a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Shri Bhagubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic. He also attended IIIT Hyderabad's Summer School on Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision and Machine Learning.