Pankaj Kumar Sharma

Experience

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  Langhar Food Services Pvt Ltd

  Nov 2010 - Aug 2015

  Cofounder and CTO

  Langhar.com was one of first few food tech startups in India. It started as marketplace for homely food, which empowered housewives to earn extra income while working from home. Roles and responsibilities- ➢ Raised funding of $200,000 from Ark Challenge USA, Amity university and Times internet.➢ Handled Web and mobile app development (YII, MongoDB, AWS EC2 and EBS, Android, iOS)➢ Worked on Delivery cost optimization, User experience design, Digital marketing, affiliate marketing, referrals, third party tie-ups. Show less

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  Yumist

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2017

  Head Of Technology
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  PolicyBazaar.com

  Sept 2017 - Feb 2020

  AVP, Artificial Intelligence

  Speech Recognition and NLP: - Created in-house bilingual Automatic Speech recognition machine learning model for “Hinglish” - Created GPU based pipeline transcribing more then 100,000 real time calls everyday - Call center automation for Quality assessment of calls based on neural networks - Improved revenue per lead by 8% using Machine Learning based Lead propensity. Callbot and Whatsapp based Chatbot: Automated 70% of post sales calls/chats by using Natural Language processing based conversational botDeep learning based Video Inspection: - Automated the process of manual inspection for Car Insurance using computer vision- Pipeline is based on Scratch and dent detection in user submitted videos Work published in Techcircle, TOI, ET, AWS blog , Softbank Portfolio presentation Show less

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  Amazon

  Mar 2020 - now

  Research Scientist, Alexa NLU

  Working on Natural Language Understanding for Hindi and Indian English languages in Alexa