About

Pankaj Jha is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant, and data science professional with over 13 years of experience. He has extensive experience in setting up and scaling big data analytics products and consulting businesses, as well as working in diverse roles with Indian and global firms. Pankaj has a proven track record of defining, solving, and operationalizing high-impact solutions across business verticals and industry functions. Pankaj's expertise lies in developing machine learning solutions from business problem formulation to web applications. He is highly skilled in regression models, time series models, clustering, PCA, neural networks and deep learning, topic models, named entity extraction, text mining, object detection, and object classification. He is proficient in Python, R, Apache Spark, SAS, SPSS, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, JavaScript, D3, Tableau, Django, Celery, Amazon Web Services, Jira, and Agile methodologies. Currently, Pankaj is the CEO of TiroLabs, a high-tech development shop that designs and develops Python/Django applications using machine learning, NLP, and data mining technologies. TiroLabs specializes in backend-focused projects using complex machine learning and deep learning techniques to develop heavily data-driven solutions. The company leverages multiple types of input to solve real-world business problems, including images, text, and analytical data. Pankaj's past experience includes working as the Principal Data Scientist at Xtagelabs and the Co-Founder and Head of Data Science, India at ScoreData Corporation. At ScoreData, he helped create a world-class big data company for the predictive enterprise. Pankaj holds an MSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has a diverse tech stack that includes Python, ML, Django, data scientist, research scientist, JavaScript, deep learning, object detection, web, frontend, backend, infra, NLP, Spark, big data, MySQL, product manager, neural networks, MongoDB, Hadoop, AWS, search, elastic search, computer vision, AI, CNN, and Postgres. Overall, Pankaj has 16.79 years of relevant experience.