About

Yugandhar Nanda is an accomplished Head of Machine Learning/AI, with extensive experience in developing and implementing machine learning algorithms and AI technologies. He has a PhD in computer science and has won the ML Track at Google India Hackathon for PhD contestants. Currently, he is working as a tech lead for machine learning signals platform, supply shaping, and location platform at nurture.farm, a company dedicated to making agriculture more profitable and sustainable. Yugandhar has an impressive track record of success in his previous roles. He was a Principal Engineer at nurture.farm, where he worked on AWS architecture and security, K8s, and set up tech standards to improve network and CPU performance while also enhancing developer productivity. He also worked at Google as a Software Engineer, where he gained valuable experience in developing scalable and robust software systems. Throughout his career, Yugandhar has demonstrated expertise in a broad range of technologies, including ML, AI, Spark, MongoDB, AWS, Web, Senior Software Engineer, Search, Software Engineer, Hyperparameter, test, Tensorflow, Neural Networks, Python, Golang, Java, and C. He has a deep understanding of machine learning algorithms and has developed new optimizers for constraint-based optimization problems. He has also designed scalable incentive platforms and area shaping platforms for supply shaping. Yugandhar's achievements include building a new system for driver searching engine, which improved performance by 8X, and improving the scalability and fastness of the TaxiForSure web backend by 10X. He also achieved all India rank 108 in GATE-2015 and career best as top 500 in hackerrank.com for algorithms practice domain, top 200 for AI practice domain. He developed a new "Spark-Mongo" connector for reducing network bandwidth and added temporary table GC for Spark to achieve maximum cluster usage. Overall, Yugandhar is a highly skilled and experienced machine learning and AI professional with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions. He is passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems and is committed to making a positive impact in the world.