About

Shivshankar Jha is a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist with a passion for building large scale distributed systems. With 2.5 years of experience in software development, Shivshankar is a competitive programmer and machine learning enthusiast. He is well-versed in various programming languages and tools such as Python, Golang, Apache Airflow, and Tensorflow. Currently, Shivshankar is working as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at ShareChat, where he is responsible for developing and implementing machine learning models to improve user engagement and retention. Prior to his current role, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at ShareChat and Software Engineer 2 at InMobi. At InMobi, Shivshankar was part of the data cloud team responsible for managing the reporting stack, which included Presto, Snowflake, Hive, and Lens. He created the complete stack of Presto on Azure cloud from scratch, which enabled heavy data extraction flow for business users across the organization. Shivshankar also implemented the Autoscaling feature for Presto in Azure cloud, which upscales and downscales the cluster based on the load of queries on the cluster. He also implemented the Automated Deployment of Presto stack and the schedule report feature where users can schedule daily reports with lagging days and offset. In addition to his professional experience, Shivshankar is an active participant in various coding competitions such as Codechef, Hackerrank, and Kaggle. He has a Codechef handle (shivshankar8), a Hackerrank handle (shivcode), and a Kaggle handle (shivyshiv). Shivshankar's technical expertise includes ML, Data Science, Research Science, NLP, Azure, SQL, Mobile, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Apache Hive, and many more. With a total of 7.78 years of relevant experience, Shivshankar is a valuable asset to any organization seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer. He is a dedicated professional who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.