Contact

Rohan Rao
www.linkedin.com/in/vopani ML @ H2O.ai | 9-time Indian Sudoku Champion | Quadruple Kaggle
(LinkedIn) Grandmaster | Advisor
vopani.medium.com (Blog) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Top Skills Summary

Machine Learning
Python
I'm a 'Numbers' guy.
Data Science
Post-graduate in Applied Statistics from IIT-Bombay.
Certifications
Mensa
One of only four Quadruple Kaggle Grandmasters in the world. My
core expertise is in driving, pipelining and building ML solutions.
Honors-Awards
Casual Puzzle Grand Prix Champion
My work has revolved around leading small teams and architecting
2016 end-to-end ML-driven solutions.
Ranked 8th in World Sudoku
Championship 2012
I've been among prize winners in various Machine Learning
8-time National Sudoku Champion
competitions on Kaggle / CrowdAnalytix / AnalyticsVidhya.
(2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2020)
5-time National Puzzle Champion My dream project is to make 'Person Of Interest' a reality :-)
(2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017)
4-time Times National Sudoku 9-time and current Indian Sudoku Champion. Became the first Indian
Champion (2012, 2015, 2016, 2019)
to be ranked in the top-10 at the World Sudoku Championship in
2012 by securing 8th place.

Silver-medalist at the Asian Championships.

5-time Indian Puzzle Champion.

4-time and current Times of India Sudoku Champion.

Member of Mensa since 2006.

Experience
H2O.ai
Principal Data Scientist
March 2019 - Present (5 years 4 months)
Bengaluru Area, India
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Building products in Machine Learning across various industries.

Paytm
Machine Learning Lead
February 2017 - February 2019 (2 years 1 month)
Bengaluru Area, India

Led the machine learning initiatives and team on various projects

- Setup an internal ML framework for building and testing scalable ML models

using data of 400-million+ customers.
- Architected a comprehensive data and feature engineering pipeline to
facilitate EDA and deploy ML modules.
- Built fraud and risk underwriting models for Paytm Postpaid and other credit
products to minimize loss rates.
- Built adoption and engagement models by personalization and customized
targeting to increase growth by 20-30%.
- Worked closely with business, product and engineering teams to define,
productionize and implement ML solutions.
- Setup dashboards and evaluation framework for monitoring all productionized
models and their performance.
- Scaled up production environment, managed clusters and serving APIs to
integrate with tech and app teams.

World Sudoku Championship 2017

Director
October 2016 - October 2017 (1 year 1 month)
Bengaluru Area, India

Belong.co
Senior Data Scientist
March 2015 - September 2015 (7 months)
Bengaluru Area, India

Grew the Data Science team and primarily worked on building Search and
Recommendations into the product.

64 Squares
Data Scientist
July 2013 - February 2015 (1 year 8 months)
Mumbai Area, India

Built machine learning models for clients across sectors like retail, e-
commerce, gaming, energy, logistics, payments, banking, finance.
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Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
MSc, Applied Statistics · (2011 - 2013)

Ramnarain Ruia College

BSc, Statistics · (2008 - 2011)

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