About

Chirag Yadav is a Data Scientist with over 7 years of experience in various domains like Banking, Insurtech, Fintech, and eCommerce. He is currently working as a Data Scientist II at Amazon, where he applies his expertise in all stages of problem-solving, starting with ideation, impact estimation, research and development, deployment, and monitoring. Chirag has built a strong skill set in solving business problems using machine learning and data science. He is skilled in Python, ML, Computer Vision, AI, CNN, Search, SQL, Azure, Text Classification, XGBoost, Random Forest, Object detection, Databricks, Image Segmentation, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and Flask. Prior to Amazon, Chirag worked as a Data Scientist at Udaan, where he led the computer vision charter working across discovery and catalog problem statements. He was responsible for all aspects of business problem-solving through ML, starting from problem identification, model development, KPI identification, model deployment to monitoring and alerting. He joined as the second data scientist in the org and was instrumental in hiring, mentoring, and onboarding of data scientists and product analysts. He deployed various models in production, including image search, similar image recommendation, image-based attribute extraction, automated catalog image quality assessment, and OCR based key-value extraction from invoices. Chirag also worked as a Data Scientist at Grofers, where he worked on optimizing the supply chain using data and machine learning. He created a model for inventory balancing between warehouses to reduce stock out events and implemented a model for auto-routes generation and allocation to FEs for a given set of orders to be delivered on a particular day. Chirag holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a highly motivated individual with a passion for data science and a strong desire to learn and grow.