About

Arun Kumar is a highly skilled Staff Research Engineer at Byju's with a passion for data science and analytics. With over 14 years of relevant experience, he has a strong background in machine learning, python, and big data technologies. In his current role at Byju's, Arun has worked on various object detection models to find objects in worksheets and check the enablement of the object within the worksheet. He has also explored OpenCV approaches for image processing. Prior to joining Byju's, Arun worked as a Staff Analytics Engineer at GE Renewable Energy and as a Module Lead at Mindtree. In his role at Mindtree, he worked on big data technologies such as MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Scala, RedShift, Cassandra, Pig, Elastic Search, AWS, and HDP. He is currently working on the HUL project, which covers technologies like Apache Spark, Scala, and R on AWS, and focuses on FMCG sales data. Arun holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and a Master of Technology in Data Science from PES University. He has a diverse tech stack that includes research scientist, Python, AWS, ML, AI, data scientist, object detection, big data, SQL, computer vision, NLP, OpenCV, image processing, Spark, C, Hadoop, TensorFlow, Cassandra, search, BERT, recommendation systems, SVM, XGBoost, Keras, CNN, deep learning, Scikit, MapReduce, Pandas, NoSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search, iOS, Apache Hive, and mobile. Overall, Arun is a highly skilled and experienced data scientist and engineer with a passion for using technology to solve complex problems.