About

Vishal Kesti is an innovative data scientist with a passion for AI and a proven track record of developing practical applications that complement human work to make businesses operate more efficiently. With over 6 years of relevant experience, Vishal has honed his skills in deep learning, NLP, computer vision, and machine learning. He is a self-motivated individual who works effectively both independently and in group settings. Vishal enjoys listening to challenges teams are facing and developing creative solutions using machine learning. Vishal is a skilled communicator who can present reports in an understandable fashion and make suggestions for process improvements within an organization. He has strong analytical skills, which he has developed through hands-on experience building solutions to unstructured problems and wrangling large quantitative data sets. He uses a methodical hypothesis-driven method for problem-solving and approaches everything he does with attention to detail, seeking to make measurable impacts with all his projects. Vishal has achieved several milestones in his career, including streamlining data mining and analysis for Clearstream by 80% and reducing manual work by 70% for the test team at IBM India by implementing new machine learning and modeling strategies. He received an Irish AI Award nomination in 2019 for his master's thesis, “Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Fake News Detection.” Currently, Vishal works as a Machine Learning Engineer at Clearstream, where he has designed and constructed a data-mining system to extract information from financial PDFs, thereby reducing manual entry errors. Vishal has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Munster Technological University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. He has also completed his Pre-University education from Chetan and his SSC from Karnataka State Board. Vishal has expertise in building ML models and deploying them on cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS. He has experience in building Azure cognitive search and extraction tools to extract information from documents with 95% accuracy. Vishal's tech stack includes ML, test, NLP, AI, computer vision, deep learning, data scientist, research scientist, Python, AWS, Azure, neural networks, Jenkins, search, SQL, CI/CD, mobile, BERT, Jupyter, SVM, random forest, Keras, CNN, OpenCV, image processing, Scikit, TensorFlow, Pandas, and integration. Vishal is open to discussing how he might be able to help your organization