Sachin Rana
Machine Learning Engineer -modeling at Block (Cash App) @Block
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WORK HISTORY
Machine Learning Engineer -modeling at Block (Cash App) @Block
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
Maharshi Dayanand University
Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Penn State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Machine Learning in Energy and Mineral Engineering
Penn State University
Master's degree, Petroleum Engineering
ABOUT SACHIN RANA
I believe that continuous learning is the only way of a successful life. There is an…
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