About Myself
Hi,
I am a self-taught programmer who started programming in low-level languages to execute projects around Arduino & Atmel microcontrollers. It was then when I discovered my passion for coding. On my way I had an epiphany that control and perception are challenging things in Artificial Intelligence - this led me to Machine Learning. I have been working on a variety of problems in the areas of Machine Learning. As a passionate Machine Learning Engineer, I like to explore the jungle of data. My survival arsenal contains: Python, Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib and Scikit-learn.
When I am not sitting in front of a computer, I enjoy volunteering at Janwaar Castle where I learn skateboarding from Janwaar kids.
Experience
Director of Applied AI and Engineering
Optum Health and Technology (UnitedHealthGroup)
✦ Leading a team of 30+ team members comprising of Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineering, MLOps and Medical Domain Subject Matter Expertise to build AI driven next generation medical coding platform using latest advancement in LLM and Generative AI.
June 2023 - Present
Machine Learning Engineer
Explosion
✦ Responsible for a mix of general python software development, Full stack web development, and applied machine learning for the Prodigy Teams product.
May 2022 - February 2023
Lead Data Scientist
Episource LLC
✦ Led a Natural Language Processing (NLP) division - a team of data scientists and subject matter experts (SMEs) - to build an NLP-powered product that extracts diagnosis, procedures, and medical services from medical records and translate them into alphanumeric codes (ICD-10).
✦ Built a Clinical NLP engine comprised of - NER, domain-specific rules based components, NLI modules - right from data annotation at scale to deploying to production. ✦ Built Scalable Data Processing pipeline using Apache Spark on AWS Stack to process thousands of charts on daily basis.
Dec 2017 - April 2022
Machine Learning Engineer
Juxt Smart Mandate
✦ Built algorithms to extract multiple features from unstructured medical text - section headers,
dates and temporal expressions
✦ Assisted in developing Content-based recommendation engine
for
video streaming platform.
Volunteer
Janwaar Castle
Janwaar Castle is India’s First Rural Skateboarding Park in Janwaar, Madhya Pradesh. I help kids by repairing skateboards, install educational apps in the crowd-funded tablets for interactive learning, supporting them in their needs when they come to a city. And looking forward to contributing to Rural Maker Space.
July 2015 - Current
Software Engineering Intern
Juxt Smart Mandate
Exploratory Data Analysis on client's data, Data visualisation using D3.js and honed skills in Full-Stack Web development.
August 2015 - March 2016
Hardware Designer
OpenEnvironment Team
India Open Data Association (IODA)
IODA's journey started in Kumbhathon 5 with an idea to produce cost-effective & scalable devices which could assess the air quality during Kumbh Mela & make this environmental data open for public use. I contributed by doing Hardware setup and the firmware design of the environment monitoring devices.
June 2015 - November 2015
Student Innovator
MIT Kumbhathon
Kumbhathon is a buildathon conducted by MIT Media Lab, USA to expose the city’s pressing issues
and
generate meaningful solutions. I was part of Kumbhathon 4,5,6 where I worked on two
projects:
1.
Crowd Management through mobile subscription pings during Kumbh Mela
2. OpenEnvironment
Project
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
University of Mumbai
With inclination towards Robotics, I used to tinker with Arduino and AVR microcontrollers projects. Soon, I had an epiphany to focus on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
2011 - 2015
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Contact Details
nipunsadvilkar@gmail.com