Dharmanath Jinagouda Patil

Senior Data Scientist & AI Leader

Leveraging 9 years of pioneering experience in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, I engineer sophisticated AI solutions that drive measurable business growth and transform complex challenges into strategic advantages.

My Expertise

Transforming data into actionable intelligence and innovative solutions.

Advanced AI & ML Development

Specializing in the design and deployment of state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Deep Learning models tailored to specific business needs.

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Expertise in developing and fine-tuning LLMs for diverse applications, from sophisticated text analysis to intelligent content generation.

End-to-End Solution Engineering

From conceptualization and model training to production deployment and optimization, I deliver robust, scalable AI solutions.

Cross-Industry Impact

Proven ability to drive significant business outcomes across FinTech, Real Estate, E-commerce, Job Tech, and Defense sectors.

Professional Journey

A history of leading impactful projects and building high-performing AI capabilities.

Vice President - Specialist Data Scientist

BNY Mellon (Fintech Sector) | March 2023 – Present

  • Engineered a topic modeling and collaborative filtering model to identify high-value upsell and cross-sell prospects, refining insights with pre-trained LLMs.
  • Developed and productionised an eCRM email classification model, significantly reducing query resolution time.
  • Built an ensemble model for transaction risk scoring, accurately pinpointing high-risk FTS transactions.

Machine Learning Engineer II

Compass (Real Estate Sector) | May 2021 – Jan 2023

  • Trained a state-of-the-art Real Estate LLM for downstream tasks like address classification and user intent understanding.
  • Achieved a 5% increase in Mean Reciprocal Rank and 8% enhancement in Click-Through Rate by engineering a learn-to-rank model using LLM distillation for the Home Page Search Engine.
  • Implemented document intelligence capabilities, improving RM productivity by 30% through automated legal document identification and organization.

Principal Data Scientist

Promptcloud (Job & Career Sector) | March 2020 – May 2021

  • Enhanced BERT (LLM) for job sector-specific tasks including skill set extraction and job title normalization.
  • As a founding member of the Data Science team, mentored 4+ data scientists and contributed to scaling the team to 6.

Senior Data Scientist

Youplus (Ecommerce Sector) | May 2018 – March 2020

  • Developed an E-commerce LLM for downstream tasks such as passage ranking and aspect identification, processing over 10 million indexed videos.
  • Implemented data-driven Q&A, Passage Ranking, Chatbot, and Information Retrieval models, enhancing user engagement and satisfaction.
  • As a founding member, mentored ~2 data scientists and helped scale the team to 10.

Junior Data Scientist

Torry Harris Business Solutions (AIaaS) | Sept 2016 - May 2018

  • Spearheaded the development of a comprehensive framework integrating ML/DL algorithms with Big Data tools like Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark.
  • Engineered an Anomaly Detection framework providing real-time insights for proactive decision-making and risk mitigation.

Trainee

Defence Research & Development Organisation (Defense Sector) | Jan 2016 - June 2016

  • Focused on High Radar Range Profile Classification using Deep Belief Networks.

Let's Build the Future

I'm always interested in exploring new challenges and opportunities to drive innovation through AI.