Sep 2019 - May 2023
Data Scientist & Chat/Voice Agent Developer
Cognizant· Pune
Clients: Pfizer, Sanofi, Papa John's, GMC
- Built a scalable framework for custom chatbots with Flask, Scikit-learn, NLTK, SpaCy, NumPy and Hugging Face transformers.
- Developed a query pre-processing framework covering spell correction, semantic analysis, lemmatization, N-grams and word embeddings.
- Engineered a containment strategy by integrating the OpenAI Chat Completion API into fallback intents for out-of-scope queries.
- Built an XGBoost + Random Forest ensemble forecasting multi-region sales with 87% accuracy, cutting inventory holding costs by 12%.
- Designed an automated feature engineering pipeline (imputation, SMOTE, scaling, encoding) that reduced manual data prep by 70%.
