I had two major responsibilities as the head of the data science team of the company:
1. Team building
2. Development and delivery of ML features in our application

TEAM BUILDING
* Hiring: Over a period of 8 months, after evaluating 100+ candidates (each with more than a year of experience as a data scientist, after completing studies from one of the IITs), I was able to hire 2 absolute gems as the first data scientists of the company.
* Culture setting: From the very beginning, my team embodied the characteristic of infinite responsibility. Every person in the team was given a problem that the company is facing and empowered to build a solution to it using all the resources that the company could access.
* Collaboration framework: Our data science team followed the principles of software engineering for collaboration and version controlling in both, the research and development phases of the projects. We used tools like DVC and JupyText to set up the framework with enables us to contribute effectively, get peer feedback and reproduce results.

DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY
* Fraud detection modelling:
- Extracted actionable insights from user behaviour patterns in wallet transactions, and their interactions with the platform.
- End-to-end pipeline to identify real-time fraud in Poker, clique detection using graph techniques.
- Saved around ₹8-12 lakhs per month of fraudulent money rotations and laundering.
* Poker bot:
- Created a bot mode in an open-source casual Poker project
- Led the creation of an AI bot that outperforms medium-level Poker players using Markov Chain modelling.
- Productized the AI bot into a learning assistant with features like adaptive difficulty and explanations of exploitable strategies.
* Friend request recommendation system:
- Led the creation of a recommender system using XGBoost that is 16% more efficient than the existing version getting friend requests accepted.

Co-founded InforMED along with Keaton Harris from South Afrika, Marcia Cunha Dos Santos from Brasil and Ishita Aggarwal from Canada for solving the communication problems faced by healthcare practitioners and their patients.

Job responsibilities:
1. App development (created a prototype of the application using Android Studio and an MVP using Ionic Framework)
2. Partnerships and Collaborations (Brought Medallion Social Innovators on board for POC and testing)
3. Executive responsibilities (Company structure, company registration, logistics etc.)
4. Marketing (Focused marketing to relevant individuals in events like Startup Master Class Pune, Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises (SEE) Central in IIT Kanpur, Google Developers' Group (Pune) DevFest'18 etc.)