Manuj Mehrotra

Senior NLP Engineer | Data Scientist
Bengaluru, IN.

About

Highly accomplished Senior Data Scientist and NLP Engineer with 8 years of experience in developing end-to-end Data Science, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing solutions. Proven ability to drive significant business impact through advanced AI/ML applications, including a $5.2M revenue contribution and 70% reduction in manual effort. Expert in Generative AI, deep learning frameworks, and scalable model deployment across diverse industries.

Work

Publicis Sapient
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Senior NLP Engineer

Summary

Led the development of advanced NLP and AI solutions to modernize legacy systems and optimize call center operations, significantly enhancing efficiency and sales performance.

Highlights

Developed an agentic framework for legacy COBOL to Python code modernization, achieving a 70% reduction in human effort for code conversion and 70% SONAR case coverage.

Created a Call Analyzer for Hilton Grand Vacation, identifying top rejection reasons and improving an annotation ETL pipeline for automated response and ticket assignment.

Optimized sales agent call lists using a call propensity model, decreasing rejection rates by 10% and increasing conversation rates by 1%.

AB-InBev
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Data Scientist, CPG Domain

Summary

Designed and deployed AI/ML-driven platforms for social listening, grievance resolution, and recommendation engines, directly impacting revenue and operational efficiency.

Highlights

Designed and deployed a social listening platform using AI-clustering of posts from Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Telegram, achieving near real-time clustering with optimized GPU usage (Nvidia A100).

Developed a RAG-based semantic search and FAQ recommendation engine, increasing Recall@3 and Recall@5, and reducing average tickets by 20% per month.

Created and deployed a recommender engine over Azure for a B2B platform, contributing $5.2M to net revenue in FY2022-23 with over 70% engagement.

Developed an AB Testing library widely used within the organization, accumulating over 400 downloads and standardizing reporting procedures for FP&A and P&L.

Developed an ensembled-forecasting technique for monthly beer distributor targets, reducing historical MAPE by 30% and saving over $1 million annually.

Mastercard
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Data Analyst

Summary

Automated critical reporting processes, significantly reducing manual effort and improving data efficiency for the payment domain.

Highlights

Automated monthly and bi-weekly Power BI reports, reducing manual effort by 70% and enhancing data accuracy for key stakeholders.

PharmaACE Analytics
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Data Scientist

Summary

Developed predictive models and market analyses using healthcare data to optimize sales strategies and drug launches.

Highlights

Created predictive alerts for weekly medical representative schedules using insurance claims data, increasing conversion rates and ROI by 10%.

Developed a forecast model to predict drug uptake for AMG510 using analogue studies, informing strategic launch decisions.

Conducted market sizing analysis using EHR data for new drug launches, providing crucial insights for business development.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
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Data Scientist

Summary

Engineered and deployed a propensity modeling system to enhance marketing campaign performance and user profiling.

Highlights

Developed and deployed PMAS (Propensity Model at Scale) on Salesforce Cloud for user profiling, generating propensity scores for email campaigns.

Improved email campaign KPIs, achieving a 20% increase in response and conversion rates compared to rule-based campaigns.

Volunteer

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Empower initiative
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Mentor

Summary

Mentored security personnel and working staff in functional English to empower their communication skills.

Highlights

Mentored security personnel and working staff of TCS in spoken Functional English as part of a training program.

Robotex program
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Coding Mentor

Summary

Empowered underprivileged students with foundational coding skills.

Highlights

Mentored underprivileged students in coding skills, providing working knowledge of programming concepts.

Education

Institute of Engineering and Technology (I.E.T.), Lucknow

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Electronic and Communications

Skills

Generative AI

Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning, PyTorch, BM25-retriever, Cross-encoder, Re-Ranker, Cost and Infra Estimation and Optimization of Training, LLMops, LlamaIndex, Vector Databases (pgVector, Chroma), LLM Models (Llama, Microsoft-phi, OpenAI-GPTs).

Machine Learning

Machine Learning, Customer Segmentation, Recommendation Engine, Propensity Model, AB-Testing, Predictive Model, MLOps, Transformers, BERT, GPT, Attention Model, NER, Neural Networks.

Programming & Databases

Python, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, SQL, R-Programming, FastAPI, MongoDB, ElasticSearchDB.

Cloud Platforms

Azure.

Projects

Quest Crafter (Question Generation Bot)

Summary

Developed and hosted an AI-powered question generation bot for schools and coaching institutes, leveraging previous year questions to create relevant content.

Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) Model

Summary

Trained a BERT model for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis to identify customer problems and suggest measures to improve service and product quality, utilizing a distinctive attention model.