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LeninKumar Soundararajan Vijaya

LeninKumar Soundararajan Vijaya

Summary

A quick learner and enthusiastic about new challenges and opportunities. Data Science, Data Engineering, Computer Vision Machine Learning Engineering, Dev Ops, AWS, Azure, K8s Full Stack Development 13 + years of IT experience 9 + years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, Data Science Field 2 + years of experience as Business Consultant in Japan 2 years of experience in Full Stack Development

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

AVP, Senior Machine Learning Engineer

MediaCorp PTE Ltd
07.2022 - Current
  • Single-Handedly created customized spark and warehouse environment on the Azure platform using opensource frameworks as an alternative to Databricks resulting in potential savings of 170K SGD/month with an annual savings of 2.04 Million SGD.
  • Architected best practices on ML Ops pipelines and MLE activities for all the DS projects under CIA (Consumer Insights & Analytics) unit with Mediacorp.
  • Reduced REST API latency for model inferencing from 1s to 100ms using best practices on Azure Networking.
  • Developed utility functions for automatic logging and tracing for REST API.
  • Set the best practices and reproducibility on coding guidelines, deployment, alerting, networking for the applications running on AKS, app services and Databricks.
  • Worked as a lead and data architect on PoC for a Gen-AI initiative creating a chat bot for charts and summary generation for the backend data sources.
  • As part of the aforementioned custom spark environment’s data governance and observability and Blue / Green / Canary deployment strategies are to be carried out in the upcoming months.
  • Served as the Solution Architect and Cost Management Architect for DS, DE and Web projects within the Consumer Insights and Analytics unit at Mediacorp.
  • Experience with governance, observability and monitoring solutions on Azure.
  • OSS Spark, Hive, Trino, Superset, Jupyterlab, Airflow, Prometheus, Grafana, AKS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Opencost (WIP), Zepplin (WIP), Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, Entra ID, Policies, Alerting
  • Airflow, Gitlab CICD, MLFlow, AzureML Featurestore, AzureML Pipelines
  • Private Link Services, Private endpoints, AKS
  • Flask, Monitor, Application Insights, KQL
  • Monitor, Application Insights, KQL, Terraform, Terragrunt, Grafana
  • Databricks SQL Warehouse, Vega, Azure OpenAI, Prompt Engineering
  • Apache Atlas, Open Lineage, AKS Fleet Manager, Loki, Jaeger
  • Azure Monitor Workspace, Policies, Alerting, Dashboarding

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

TIGER Analytics
01.2021 - 07.2022
  • ML Engineering, worked on building cloud agnostic framework python codes to be used by data scientists reducing time to develop, time to deploy and time to market.
  • Building end to end MLOps solution for a multi-national food retailer across global regions.
  • Python, Azure ML, Github Actions
  • AWS, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Github Actions, Airflow

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

TIGER Analytics
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • ML Engineering, worked on building end to end MLOps pipeline for an international retailer using Azure services.
  • ML Engineering, building end to end MLOps pipeline after having worked on multiple POCs.
  • Azure DevOps, Azure ML, Terraform
  • Mlflow, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Loki, Istio, Jaeger, Neptune.ai, Spark on kubernetes, mlrun, kubeflow, TFX, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Batch

Machine Learning Engineer

TIGER Analytics
09.2019 - 12.2019
  • ML Engineering, preparing accelerators for the upcoming projects on Time-Series.
  • ML Engineering, End-to-End pipeline POCs on AWS-Sagemaker.
  • ML Engineering, creating large scale mode deployments using AWS-Batch and Metaflow.
  • Prophet / deepAR / deepstate, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Fabric/Ansible, Jenkins, Airflow, Python, Git, mlflow
  • AWS Sagemaker, Debugger, Tracking, Hyper-Param-Tuning, Model-Explaining, Deploying, Batch & Adhoc Inferences, Custom-Models
  • AWS Batch, Metaflow

Data Scientist

TIGER Analytics
04.2019 - 08.2019
  • Churn Prediction for an American Insurance Client.
  • Time-Series demand forecasting for a multi-national food retailer.
  • Supply & Demand calculation for an American Senior-Housing company.
  • Python, XGB, Tableau, Hypothesis Testing, Hive-SQL, Py-Spark, Airflow, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, mlflow, Gunicorn, Swagger
  • Deepstate, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Python, Git, mlflow
  • Python, Docker, AWS, Git, mlflow, Gunicorn, Swagger

Data Scientist / Business Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services
02.2015 - 03.2019
  • Exploratory Data Analysis using Tableau and ML model generation for Predicting Customer Churn.
  • Building Recommendation Engine on frequently travelled destinations.
  • Customer Segmentation for a British Airline for Priority-Booking.
  • Distracted Driver Detection using Computer Vision.
  • Tableau, SQL, XGB, Python, R, SVN, Py-Spark
  • SVD, Collaborative Filtering, Py-Spark, R
  • RFM Customer Segmentation, R, Gunicorn, Swagger
  • Keras, Docker

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

TATA Consultancy Services
08.2011 - 01.2015
  • Worked on various full stack web development technologies

Education

Post Graduate - Big Data and Machine Learning

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Stuart School of Business
09.2018

Bachelor’s Degree - Electrical and Electronics Engineering (B.E., EEE)

PSG College of Technology
04.2011

Skills

  • Data Science / AI
  • Churn Prediction
  • Time Series Forecasting
  • NLP
  • Computer Vision
  • Recommendation Engine
  • Encoder Decoder networks
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • SVD
  • RFM Customer Segmentation
  • Tableau
  • EDA
  • Consulting
  • AWS Cloud
  • Sagemaker
  • Debugger
  • Tracking
  • Hyper-Param Tuning
  • Model Explanation
  • Model Monitoring
  • Custom Models
  • Batch-Adhoc Inferences
  • Pipelines
  • Projects
  • Model Registry
  • Feature Store
  • Custom Dev Environments
  • Services
  • SSO Setup
  • AWS Org
  • AWS Batch
  • ECS
  • EKS
  • Code Pipeline with Sagemaker
  • Firehose
  • S3 Data Lake
  • Athena, Glue
  • Gateway
  • Azure Cloud
  • Azure ML
  • Datasets
  • Auto ML
  • Fabric
  • Data Factory
  • AKS
  • Logic App
  • Event Hub
  • App Services
  • Application Gateway
  • Front Door
  • Entra ID
  • MLE / MLOps
  • Kubernetes, helm charts
  • Airflow, Kubeflow, Metaflow
  • Github Actions
  • Grafana, Prometheus
  • Docker
  • Neptuneai, MLFlow
  • Trino
  • Superset
  • Github Actions, Jenkins
  • Databricks intermediate
  • Kedro
  • Mlrun
  • Jaeger
  • Loki
  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt

Languages

English
Tamil
Hindi (Read, Write)
Kannada (Spoken)
Japanese (Basic)

Personal Information

  • Phone: +65-92718200 (Singapore), +91-9244428950 (India)
  • Email: LeninKumar.sv@gmail.com
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenin-kumar-sv

Timeline

AVP, Senior Machine Learning Engineer

MediaCorp PTE Ltd
07.2022 - Current

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

TIGER Analytics
01.2021 - 07.2022

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

TIGER Analytics
01.2020 - 12.2020

Machine Learning Engineer

TIGER Analytics
09.2019 - 12.2019

Data Scientist

TIGER Analytics
04.2019 - 08.2019

Data Scientist / Business Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services
02.2015 - 03.2019

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

TATA Consultancy Services
08.2011 - 01.2015

Bachelor’s Degree - Electrical and Electronics Engineering (B.E., EEE)

PSG College of Technology

Post Graduate - Big Data and Machine Learning

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Stuart School of Business
LeninKumar Soundararajan Vijaya