Sachin Rana

Machine Learning Engineer -modeling at Block (Cash App) @Block

Toronto, ON, CA
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WORK HISTORY

Feb 2020 — Present

Machine Learning Engineer -modeling at Block (Cash App) @Block

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Technically lead end-to-end deployment of ML at identity verification to block fake accounts • Provided a key business metric of fake customer prevalence on platform that is tracked weekly • Successfully blocked 40% of fake accounts with over 90% precision • Built and improvised tooling in collaboration with the team for training production ready ML models • Helped drive labeling of fake/bad accounts by manual auditors for training ML models • Lead discussions of ML applications in complex Identity space with Compliance, Product and Legal • Helped launch and lead ML design of innovative name verification for credit invisible customers • Filed patent on string entity resolution in noisy string data sources for customer name verification • Grew the team by onboarding and supporting peer ML modelers in the team • Actively interviewed and helped others get calibrated on interviews to hire best talent across teams • Aligned team’s quarterly goals with organizational yearly strategic plan • One of the first AI-Fellows and presented impact of graph neural nets on broad risk ML use cases • Developed and presented a chat-bot using state-of-the-art deep learning for Cash support use cases • Helped in development of state-of-the-art ads-recommendation system using deep Bayesian bandits

EDUCATION

2005 — 2009

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

2015 — 2017

Penn State University

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Machine Learning in Energy and Mineral Engineering

2009 — 2011

Penn State University

Master's degree, Petroleum Engineering

ABOUT SACHIN RANA

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