Saugat Thapa
Data Scientist & ML Engineer | GenAI, LLMs, MLOps | AI in Credit Risk & Healthcare | PyTorch, Hugging Face, GCP, AWS, Spark | Responsible & Scalable AI Systems
- Role
- Data Scientist Ml Engineer at Capital One
- Location
- Pawtucket, RI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Saugat Thapa
Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable data infrastructure and…
Experience
Data Scientist Ml Engineer
Jan 2025 — Present
Developed and deployed ML solutions for credit risk assessment and underwriting automation using XGBoost, CatBoost, and PySpark. Built real-time scoring APIs with FastAPI and AWS Lambda, integrated SHAP/LIME for explainability, and implemented fraud detection with Isolation Forests.Optimized LLMs via quantization and distributed training (Ray, Dask), automated MLOps workflows with Airflow and Kubernetes, and ensured regulatory compliance (FCRA, GDPR, CCAR). Led internal AI knowledge sharing and contributed to open-source tooling.
Education
Fitchburg State University
Master's degree, Computer science with concentration on data science
The British College, Kathmandu
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
2019 — 2020
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