About

Anirudh Kala is a highly skilled CEO at Celebal Tech and a thought leader in building data-driven solutions using Azure and Databricks. With over 13 years of experience in the field of data science, he is an expert in machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. He has helped multiple organizations with quantitative research, natural language generation, data science exploration, and big data implementation to run their large-scale data warehouse. Anirudh has worked in every aspect of data analytics using Azure Data Platform and is an expert in implementing ML solutions and productionizing them using Azure ML and Cognitive Services. He has also worked as an advisor for large management consulting firms on how to utilize the power of deep learning in their organizations. He specializes in text analytics, building ontologies, hierarchical categorization, custom annotators, classification, and recommendation engines using Apache frameworks like Apache UIMA. Anirudh is an expert in building semantic search engines using Azure Search and Stanford core NLP and Scikit-Learn (Python). He has also built large data warehouses ranging from 10TB to 1PB for multiple verticals ranging from pharma, retail to ecommerce. Currently, he is working as the Director of Celebal Technologies, a data science boutique firm dedicated to large-scale analytics. Anirudh is helping organizations realize the power of chatbot and automation using Cortana Bot Framework and LUIS platform. He has expertise in implementing deep neural nets, including Convnets, RNN with LSTM, and Restricted Boltzmann machines. He is proficient in Tensorflow, Caffe, and Torch. Anirudh's past experience includes working as the Chief Data Scientist at Vitrana, where he led the data science practice and majorly contributed to the pharma analytics effort. He has also worked as a data scientist at Topcoder, where he implemented data science for multiple domains, ranging from epidemiology, pharmaceutical marketing, and supply chain to quantitative research for space exploration programs. Anirudh has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Rajasthan and completed his higher secondary education from Subodh Public School. He also attended St. Ann's Academy in Jaipur. Anirudh is well-versed in Azure, Databricks, ML, data scientist, research scientist, deep learning, NLP, search, Tensorflow, RNN, language models, Scikit, data warehouse, infra, big data, Python, Spark