About

Sreyas Chaithanya is an accomplished engineering professional with a strong background in technology and machine learning. With a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, Sreyas has over 4 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working as an AI Product Manager at Pixis. Sreyas has a passion for solving interesting problems in software systems and machine learning. He has a varied experience in technology as well as machine learning and has worked on several projects combining healthcare and AI. Some of his notable projects include pneumonia detection from x-ray, BERT-based QA matching chatbot, auto encoders for high dimensional data representation, and working on the application of reinforcement learning for optimization tasks. Sreyas has worked as an AI Engineer and Data Scientist at IQVIA, where he has contributed to developing an application for market mixed modelling with various modelling algorithms. He has used various optimization methods from Bayesian to evolutionary to find the best model satisfying business conditions, which has reduced the number of analysts involved and time from about 4 weeks to a fraction of a week. He has also designed a distributed training architecture with Ray and AWS lambda from scratch, which has helped reduce the cost due to on-demand training. Sreyas has a strong technical background and has worked with various technologies such as AWS, MongoDB, Flask, Python, and GitLab CICD. He has also developed a python package for internal teams for data automatic pre-processing, which has helped the analyst team move to Python from R for faster prototyping. In addition to his technical expertise, Sreyas is involved in mentoring existing data analysts with tech stuff and techies with ML. He has excellent communication skills and is a team player.