About

Pradeep Bansal is a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Information Retrieval. He is currently working as a founding ML Engineer at Traceable AI, where he has developed a python-based service to predict anomalous requests and developed a PySpark service to compute the clusters depicting user's outlier and normal behavior. He has taken various initiatives to detect sign-up frauds by involving in direct customer meetings for feedback and improvement of the model. Prior to his current role, Pradeep worked as an ML consultant with hands-on experience in solving business problems in the cybersecurity space with Barracuda Networks valued more than $1.6B. He worked on solving the problem of bot detection on websites, using anomaly detection and other unsupervised learning algorithms. Apart from being an individual contributor, Pradeep also assisted and managed the Machine learning team for Advanced Bot Detection at Barracuda Networks. He has also worked for Data Engineering and Data Science teams at Cure.fit and BloomReach, respectively. Pradeep completed his Masters in AI with Department Rank 1 at IISc Bangalore, where he won the Best Student Award in the branch called M.Tech(A.I.) offered jointly by the department of CSA and EE. He has won a Gold Medal in Academics and Intra College Table Tennis championship. He is proficient in C, C++, Matlab, Python, Apache Spark, Pandas, Keras, Scikit-Learn, SQL-Alchemy, and has a keen interest in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science. Pradeep has also taken on various leadership roles, leading 5 dance teams as the Choreographer and Lead dancer. He is also a blogger with more than 20K views on his blog and has a Quora profile with over 300K views. He has helped many people by letting them discover how to prepare for GATE, competitive exams, Machine Learning, Data Science, and also on typical problems of life involving stress or depression, thanks to his command over Emotional Intelligence and empathy towards mankind. In summary, Pradeep Bansal is a highly skilled and experienced Machine Learning Engineer with a strong academic background, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for using his expertise to help people.