About

Doney Alex is a highly skilled Lead Data Scientist with 9.87 years of relevant experience in building ML/AI-powered scalable products. Currently, he is working at ShareChat, where he is solving diverse problems in AdTech, such as clicks-cost prediction, reserve price optimization, and understanding the content in the form of millions of images and videos in 16 Indian languages using deep learning. Doney's expertise lies in a range of areas, including Advertising, Computer Vision, NLP, Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, Video Codecs, and Embedded Systems. He has a strong background in developing end-to-end AI-based solutions, focusing on Customer Activity Analytics inside brick-and-mortar stores. He has contributed to Computer Vision-AI teams and worked on technologies such as Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Human Activity Recognition, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, and Big Data Analytics, using frameworks such as OpenCV, TensorFlow, and platforms such as ARM Embedded Systems, Amazon Web Services (EMR/EC2), and X86-64 + CUDA. Prior to ShareChat, Doney worked as a Tech Lead at Capillary, where he contributed to Computer Vision-AI teams and worked on technologies such as Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Human Activity Recognition, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, and Big Data Analytics. He also worked as a Senior Engineer at Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd, where he developed Video Codecs for the ARM platform and contributed to Lowlight Imaging, Selfie-HDR, and Imaging Algorithms for ARM platform. Doney holds a Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from College of Engineering Trivandrum. He has a strong TechStack, including Research Scientist, Data Scientist, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, AI, ML, Python, Neural Networks, Recommendation System, Big Data, Image Processing, NLP, OpenCV, C, Senior Software Engineer, Mobile, Web, CNN, SQL, XGBoost, Scikit, and TensorFlow.