About

Sounak Bhattacharya is a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer II at Compass with a strong background in computer science and a proven track record of delivering successful projects. He is a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he earned his Master of Technology in Computer Science. Sounak is a results-driven professional with 2.95 years of relevant experience in the industry. At Compass, Sounak is responsible for building and implementing machine learning models to improve the company's products and services. He has successfully built a Similar Homes Recommender System using Siamese Network Architecture with a Mean Average Precision of 47%. He also created an end-to-end ML pipeline, resulting in Listing Details page Click Through Rate Improvement by 13.8%. Sounak has also parsed and normalized free-form addresses found in MLS listings packed with local conventions, arbitrarily shortened strings, abbreviations, and other ambiguities into clean canonical representations that can be queried efficiently and queried. Prior to joining Compass, Sounak worked as a Teaching Faculty at Ace Engineering Academy, where he taught Computer Networks. He also worked as an Associate Developer at SAP, where he implemented HVPA Controller for Gardener, a Custom Resource Definition that manages horizontal and vertical autoscaling of Kubernetes clusters. Sounak is highly skilled in a wide range of technologies, including ML, Software Engineering, AWS, Reinforcement Learning, Kubernetes, SQL, Search, Deep Learning, Spark, Apache Airflow, Scikit, Docker, Research Scientist, TensorFlow, Python, and Java. His expertise in these areas has enabled him to deliver high-quality solutions that meet the needs of his clients. Overall, Sounak Bhattacharya is a highly motivated and skilled professional who is passionate about using his expertise to solve complex problems and deliver innovative solutions. He is a valuable asset to any organization that values innovation, creativity, and excellence.