About

Kaustabh Datta Choudhury is a passionate and driven Data Scientist with over 6 years of experience in the field. He is dedicated to building powerful and innovative products through high-impact projects and is always eager to learn and sharpen his existing skill set. As an Engineering Manager - Data Science & ML at Koo India, Kaustabh has led the efforts to make 'Topics' live in 10 languages and has ideated, architected, and led the implementation of ‘For you tab’, a hub for personalized recommendations based on user activity patterns. He has also architected a central ML pipeline to run all ML-based enrichment modules in a scalable fashion, a search indexing pipeline to aid in better search experience and relevancy of results, and an adaptive tagging pipeline. In his previous role as a Lead Data Scientist at Trell, Kaustabh ideated, architected, and led the launch of a real-time personalization system, which resulted in a 93% increase in engagements. He also built a recommendation system that performed ~30% over the existing content delivery system, led the creation of a profanity detector, and spearheaded a solution to the cold-start problem of recommendations. Kaustabh holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, and has a background in Science from Don Bosco School. He is skilled in various technologies, including Python, AI, Word2Vec, Spark, Javascript, Tensorflow, Elastic Search, and Mobile. Overall, Kaustabh is a highly motivated and skilled Data Science professional with a proven track record of delivering impactful and innovative solutions.