About

Sambit Mahapatra is a highly skilled and accomplished Data Scientist with a vast experience in designing and deploying complex machine learning and statistical modelling algorithms/techniques for identifying patterns and extracting valuable insights. With a proven track record of analytical acumen, Sambit possesses diverse experience in planning and executing multiple projects across domains and liaising with key stakeholders to identify and resolve business problem statements to deliver excellent results. Sambit's expertise spans across Machine Learning, Neural Network, Natural Language Processing, Cloud Computing, and Containerisation. His project carryout style involves Requirement Gathering, Data Collection, Data Ingestion, Data EDA and Pre-processing, Model Building, Model Serving, and Containerisation and Model Deployment. Currently building CSAT.AI to enhance CX in customer support, Sambit is also a Course Creator and Instructor at Udemy: Online Courses. He has built and deployed a COVID-19 Question Answering system using Artificial Intelligence and NLP, utilising technologies such as NLP, Deepset, Transformer, Fastapi, Elasticsearch, and Streamlit. In his past roles, Sambit has worked as a Founding Engineer (ML) at Navedas and as a Software Engineer at Veritas. At Navedas, he was responsible for gathering/augmenting data and building, training & deployment of NLP models for various use cases in customer support domain. He also spearheaded a vibrant team to manage the application designing (frontend and backend) and researched new web frameworks and pre-trained models to enhance the performance and accuracy of CSAT.AI along with less cloud cost. At Veritas, he performed optimisation of the metadata collection time for VxFS by 30-70% with multi-threading in C along with a live status display and built a size estimator of metadata of a file system using statistical inference on i-node information. He also contributed to enabling the LKU (Live Kernel Update) feature of VxFS for AIX operating system. Sambit holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela and an Advanced Certification on Machine Learning & Cloud from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His technical skills include NLP, AI, Data Scientist, ML, Tensorflow, Docker, Pandas, Scikit, Keras, Research Scientist, Python, Kubernetes, Neural Networks, Elastic Search, Web, Frontend, Backend, Flask, AWS, GCP, Software Engineer, Deep Learning