Akshay Bhonde

Akshay Bhonde has a strong background in data science and engineering. Akshay is currently the Director of Data at Pelago, where they oversee the data science and engineering team. As one of the founding members of Pelago, they have been responsible for designing and engineering the events data streaming platform, developing a scalable recommendation framework, and optimizing search for the company. Additionally, they have designed the Data Lake, warehouse, and analytical layer to provide self-service data access to business and product teams, as well as developed an internal risk engine to identify and prevent payment fraud and platform abuse. Prior to their role at Pelago, Akshay worked as a Data Science Manager at Lazada Group and as a Data Scientist at Unilever. Akshay also gained experience as a Senior Business Analyst and Business Analyst at Mu Sigma Inc.

Akshay Bhonde holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Business Analytics from the National University of Singapore. They also have a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Smt.Kashibai Navale College of Engineering. In addition, Akshay holds several certifications in various areas such as sequence models, convolutional neural networks, structuring machine learning projects, deep neural networks, programming in Python, and R programming. The specific months of certification acquisition are not provided.