About

Tushar Makkar is a highly skilled and experienced Lead Data Scientist at eightfold.ai. With nearly a decade of relevant experience, Tushar has become a seasoned problem solver with a passion for designing solutions for previously unsolvable and high business impact problems. He is known for his ability to put a keen emphasis on setting up the right architecture and writing maintainable code. Tushar's current role at eightfold.ai involves converting unstructured data to knowledge using Machine Learning. He is also responsible for building Resume Parsing using deep learning techniques from the ground up. Prior to his current role, Tushar held the position of Senior Data Scientist at eightfold.ai, where he was tasked with solving employment-related problems, such as finding the right person for the right role at the right time. He was also a Senior Engineer in Eightfold.ai's Data Science Team, building state-of-the-art deep learning models for matching & resume parsing. Tushar's past experience also includes a role as a Data Scientist at eightfold.ai, where he formulated and solved problems such as Abbreviation Expander, which improved the engine's performance by integrating abbreviations' semantical information, and Spell Checker, an internationalized and fast spell checker library. He also developed Para-BERT, which provides contextual BERT embeddings for different entities in Eightfold's ecosystem. Tushar's education history includes a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, as well as Senior Secondary Boards and High School Certificate of Competence Program from P.K.R Jain Sr. Sec. Public School. Tushar's tech stack includes expertise in Data Science, Research Science, AI, Jupyter, Deep Learning, ML, and Software Engineering. He is a highly valuable asset to any team working on complex and challenging projects.