Ajay Kumar
About Ajay Kumar
Ajay Kumar is a Data Scientist at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany, with extensive experience in data science roles across various companies and a background in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Title
Ajay Kumar is a data scientist currently working at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany.
Company
Ajay Kumar is employed by Delivery Hero, a global leader in online food delivery services, where he works as a data scientist.
Education and Expertise
Ajay Kumar graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Chemical Engineering. He also completed his higher secondary education at Jawahar Navodaya Vidhyalaya, Morena.
Work Experience in Data Science
Ajay's experience in data science spans several companies. He worked at Tiger Analytics as Lead - Data Science in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India from 2020 to 2021. Prior to that, he was a data scientist at Galytix in Gurugram, Haryana, India from 2019 to 2020. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a data scientist at Shah India Rubber Products in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He also gained experience at Capgemini as a data scientist from 2015 to 2016 in Mumbai. Early in his career, Ajay interned at KAUST Catalyst Centre | Saudi Aramco in Jeddah for two months in 2014.
Professional Achievements
Ajay Kumar has several achievements in his professional career. At Delivery Hero, he developed a machine learning model that improved delivery time predictions by 15%. He also led a cross-functional team to implement a predictive maintenance system that reduced operational costs by 10%. He presented a paper on predictive modeling at the International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics in 2022. Ajay won the 'Employee of the Month' award at Delivery Hero in December 2022. Additionally, he contributed to an open-source project on data visualization techniques using Python.
Mentorship and Public Speaking
Ajay mentors junior data scientists through an internal program at Delivery Hero. He has also been a guest speaker at a webinar hosted by the Berlin Data Science Group, discussing 'Advanced Machine Learning Techniques'.
Published Work
Ajay Kumar has published articles in reputable journals. Notably, he wrote about the application of econometrics in e-commerce in the 'Journal of Data Science'.