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Hi, I am Harshit

Harshit Sethi

Machine Learning Engineer at Zendesk

A Machine Learning Practionioner having exposure in all aspects of an ML problem right from brainstorming, building proofs-of-concept to productionizing and maintaining the solution. I am interested in the applications of Machine Learning to solve problems that help make people’s lives easier and augment their productivity by efficient use of technology. I specialize in making NLP solutions for the finance domain and have built a machine learning engine to monitor customer communications by extensively researching and implementing various NLP techniques. Curious and eager to explore more into MLOps and currently in the process of enabling best practices around it at my current workplace. I try to be a better version of myself by being updated with the ongoing research in ML, participating in various reading groups, and actively participating in the ML community.

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Experiences

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Machine Learning Engineer
Zendesk

Aug 2021 - Present, Melbourne, Australia

Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 brands with hundreds of millions of customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites and help centers. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved. The company was conceived in Copenhagen, Denmark, built and grown in California, taken public in New York City, and today employs more than 4,000 people across the world.


Machine Learning Engineer
Cognitive View

Dec 2019 - Aug 2021, Melbourne, Australia

Cognitive View analyzes customer communication to identify Conduct Risk and automates Compliance monitoring process

Responsibilities:
  • Involved in End-to-End Machine Learning development
  • Developed deep learning models using state-of-the-art language models and helped improve compliance failure detection by 10%
  • Implemented solution to reduce false positives in complaint detection by 50%
  • Building ML Pipeline to continuously extract insights from historical complaints data for the past 10 years and running
  • Reduced inferencing time of the complete pipeline from 10 minutes to under 30 seconds
  • Initiated process to enable data team to move from manual labeling in spreadsheets to automated data labeling
  • Collaborated with Product Owners, QA and other teams in an agile environment to design the product features
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Tutor - Mobile Computing & Systems Programming
The University of Melbourne

July 2019 - Nov 2019, Melbourne, Australia

The University of Melbourne is a leading international university with over 160 years experience in teaching and research.

Responsibilities:
  • Prepared lesson plans/learning modules for tutoring sessions according to students’ needs and goals
  • Conducted tutoring sessions and helping students understand the concepts
  • Assessed students’ progress throughout tutoring sessions

Projects

Automatic Fact Verification
Contributor March 2019 - Jul 2020

Developed a chrome extension “Get Your Fact Straight” for end-to-end fact checking using Machine Learning(NLP) for Master’s thesis project

Cluster and Cloud Computing - Social media analysis to explore the seven deadly sins
Contributor

Carried out social media analysis to explore the seven deadly sins. The activities were executed on University of Melbourne cloud system - NeCTAR Research Cloud. For social media analysis, Twitter is used as the social media platform, from which tweets are harvested in order to analyse and drive conclusion. The conclusion derived from twitter data on the sins was then cross checked from the official data, made available by AURIN.

Who Tweeted That? - Authorship Attribution
Contributor

For the task of author identification we took into consideration and analysed various machine learning classification models to single out authors for the collected Twitter data set. Alongside the models feature engineering was also applied. Various models were considered, such as Naive Bayes, SVM, Random Forest and neural network multi-class classifiers and how and why they performed under this particular task was reported. In the end, we found that LinearSVC outperformed all the other models by achieving 29% accuracy.

Education

M.Sc in Computer Science
CGPA: 83.1 out of 100
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
CGPA: 8.13 out of 10