About

Samarth Agrawal is an AI/ML Leader, Blockchain enthusiast, Data Scientist, Flutter-Android/iOS developer, Product Manager, and Writer with over 13 years of experience in global cross-functional and culturally diverse teams. He is a skilled communicator, educator, and practitioner in data science with a passion for managing fortune 500 companies and startups across India, UAE, China, and the USA. Samarth is the creator of the Python package "fast_ml," which democratizes machine learning model development, including best practices of effective feature engineering and methods for improving the interpretability of black box models. He is proficient in various machine learning techniques such as linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, and time series forecasting. He is also skilled in clustering techniques like K-means, hierarchical, density-based, and Gaussian mixture models, as well as deep learning techniques such as ANN, CNN, RNN, LSTM, and GAN using the PyTorch framework. Samarth is experienced in deploying models using the AWS ecosystem, including Sagemaker, API, Endpoint, and Lambda. He is also well-versed in business intelligence tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, and Adobe Analytics, and databases like Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, IBM Aginity Workbench, and MySQL. He is proficient in programming languages such as SAS, SPSS Modeler, and Python. Currently, Samarth is the Creator of fast_ml, a Python package that contains ready-to-use components for building machine learning pipelines. He has also been a blogger for Towards Data Science, where he shares his thoughts, ideas, and codes on machine learning, deep learning, and AI. In the past, Samarth has worked as a Senior Manager - Data Scientist at TCS, where he used ML to reduce the high number of false alerts generated from Anti-Money Laundering Solution. He has also worked on Retention/Loyalty Analytics, Web Pay Registration, and Clickstream Analytics. Samarth was amongst the top 5 finalists in the innovation fair competition and actively participated in all the years. Samarth holds a B.Tech degree in Metallurgical Eng & Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is skilled in various technologies such as ML, Blockchain, AI, Data Scientist, Product Manager, Research Scientist, SQL, iOS, Flutter, AWS, Deep Learning, Android, CNN, RNN, GAN, NLP, Pytorch