Om Agrawal

About Om Agrawal

Data Scientist with over 6 years of experience developing machine learning models and NLP…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer - Ai Ml

   HT Media Group

   Apr 2024 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   RAG & NLP Systems – Built Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combining LLMs, TF-IDF, BM25, DuoBERT, Tesseract, and PDFPlumber to power business model tagging and financial data extraction. Improved accuracy by 20%, reduced costs by 90%, and cut turnaround times by 70%, significantly enhancing market intelligence and competitor analysis capabilities. Predictive Modeling – Developed a financial distress prediction model with 90% accuracy to evaluate company health, supporting VC and investor decisions. Applied advanced transformations (Yeo-Johnson, log, exponential), SMOTE for class balancing, and optimized Random Forest & XGBoost models with Grid Search and HyperOpt, boosting efficiency by 10%. Product & Analytics – Collaborated with product teams to build a dynamic analyst panel delivering real-time startup & financial analytics, increasing user engagement by 25%. Designed interactive dashboards and led A/B testing, improving feature adoption by 15% and engagement by 20%, aligning with North Star Metrics while protecting guardrails. Data-Driven Insights – Created a company scoring framework (Scale, Proficiency, Progression, Governance) using percentile-based scoring and weighted averages. Designed stage & funding classification matrices to enable sector-specific benchmarking and actionable insights. Governance & Stakeholder Analysis – Engineered pipelines to analyze company teams, boards, and fund structures, enabling deeper governance insights and fund benchmarking. Partnered with finance teams to embed statistical insights into platforms, improving decision-making and transparency.

Education

• Bharati Vidyapeeth

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

  2015 — 2019