Sudhir Bhapkar

About Sudhir Bhapkar

Graduated from Mercyhurst University, Master degree in Data Science • Cumulative…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer in Machine Learning

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   Apr 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Developed scalable and high-efficient lambda and ECS services using Python and TypeScript that served personalized, keyword and location based model recommendations and ElasticSearch/ OpenSearch algo• Configured environment to run Logstash on AWS ECS service with complex query to generate and integrate data from MySQL and S3 data into ElasticSearch Cluster Index.• Developed Geo Location Search using ElasticSearch and replaced apis with traditional search that improved search relevancy by almost 60%.• Engineered Airflow DAGs to transfer production data to S3 data lakes and subsequently to RedShift.• Enhanced and deployed a real-time personalized recommendations by introducing new features and re-training it, leading to a significant improvement in model accuracy from 74% to 85%.• Developed analytical pipelines to compute search metrics like MRR, MAP@K, and CTR, facilitating analysis on Event and Group searches to enhance search relevancy and established an A/B test dashboards in Looker.• Designed an architecture to retrieve city locations and their polygon data from OpenStreetMap, integrating them into the ElasticSearch Index.• Implemented a feature utilizing text embeddings vectorization to match Member search history with chapter descriptions using cosine similarity, resulting in a 3% improvement in model accuracy.• Configured OpenSearch version 2.7 through AWS CloudFormation. Engineered the OpenSearch query algorithm to perform Semantic Search matching parallel with exact text matching, enhancing search result relevance by almost 10.75% and reducing empty searches by approximately 72%.• Led the full end-to-end model development process, encompassing candidate generation, feature engineering, model training, validation, and deployment to production. Optimized recommendation jobs generated by the model, enhancing performance and efficiency within Airflow workflows.• Currently in the process of developing week-over-week trending searches by geo locations.

Education

• Pune University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering

  2006 — 2010

• Mercyhurst University

  Master’s Degree, MS in Data Science

  2015 — 2017