Surender Kumar

About Surender Kumar

As head data science architect of customer shopping experience, I\'m responsible for all data science vision and solutions for Customer Shopping Experience group (Search, Ads, Recommender Systems, Personalization, Foundation Models, Catalogue intelligence, User Growth/Retention - Insights, Retention, Shopsy, Reviews, QnA) at Flipkart, India\'s largest e-commerce platform. In past, I\'ve built & led teams to create large scale machine learning solutions for ranking, relevance, forecasting, recommendations, quality, fraud detection in Sponsored Search for world\'s major search engines - Bing and Yahoo.

Experience

1. Sr Director (Data Science)

   Flipkart

   Apr 2015 — Present

   Head data science architect of Customer Shopping Experience & Ads business units (Search, Ads, Recommender Systems, Personalization, Catalogue intelligence, User Growth/Retention - Insights, Retention, Shopsy, Reviews, QnA), at Flipkart, India\'s largest e-commerce platform.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  B. Tech, Bachelor of Technology

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• J2ee
• Distributed Systems
• Analytics
• Search
• Machine Learning
• Spring
• Web Services
• Hibernate
• Java
• Design Patterns
• Xml
• Struts
• Sql
• Servlets
• Linux
• Data Mining
• Tomcat
• Ejb
• Information Retrieval
• Algorithms
• Architecture
• Multithreading
• Hadoop
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Mobile Devices
• Spring Framework
• Scalability
• Web Applications
• Python
• Big Data
• Predictive Modeling
• Recommender Systems
• Forecasting