Portrait of Shamik Basu

Open to full-time roles · Los Angeles, CA

Shamik Basu

AI Enabled Data Scientist

I ship production ML, RAG, and LLM systems with measurable impact: 72% lower cost on a 5M+ record/month pipeline, 27% better fraud detection, and 115× GPU speedups. MS Applied Data Science at USC (GPA 3.7).

  • 2+ years production ML
  • MS Data Science · USC
  • 1st Place · UCLA SAIRS

Highlights

Featured Projects

End-to-end builds with case studies, demos, and measurable outcomes.

1st Place
Hackathon · 24 hrs

EcoMate-AI

Multimodal agentic platform (Gemini 2.5 Flash) that turns receipts and activity into sustainability actions.

UCLA SAIRS
2025 winner
  • Gemini 2.5
  • CV
  • RAG
CUDA benchmark: execution time vs matrix size 115× faster
GPU Computing

Custom CUDA Library

Shared-memory tiled kernels with Python bindings, delivering 115× CPU and 14× PyTorch speedups on Tesla T4.

  • CUDA
  • C/C++
  • Python
Data Viz
Workflow Analytics

Smooth Operation

Atlassian Forge app with heatmaps, analytics, smart search, and vulnerability scanning for Jira and Confluence.

  • Forge
  • React
  • Jira

Work Experience

Impact-first summaries. Full detail in the resume PDF.

  1. Data Science Associate Intern

    Liquidity AI Capital · Los Angeles, CA

    Deployed production SLM inference in Docker with end-to-end LoRA fine-tuning for domain-specific financial inference.

  2. Data Science Associate Intern

    KCC Capital Partners · Los Angeles, CA

    Built an agentic LangChain pipeline for M&A target sourcing with LLM classification, web scraping, and structured extraction.

  3. Data Scientist

    Bajaj Finserv Health · Pune, India

    • 72% cost reduction
    • 5M+ records/mo
    • 92% accuracy

    Production RAG pipeline (LangChain + GPT-3.5) with Langfuse observability and Kafka event-driven inference.

  4. Associate Data Scientist

    Bajaj Finserv Health · Pune, India

    • +27% fraud accuracy
    • +22% efficiency

    Redesigned a production NER pipeline and shipped supervised models with fewer false positives.

  5. Data Engineer Intern

    Bajaj Finserv Health · Pune, India

    Scaled ETL to 10M+ records across 200+ features with C++/Trino/Docker and optimized SQL.

Education

Applied data science and computer science foundations.

University of Southern California

MS, Applied Data Science

Los Angeles, CA · Jan 2025 – Dec 2026 · GPA 3.7 / 4.0

  • Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Data Management

SRM Institute of Science & Technology

BTech, Computer Science

Chennai, India · 2018 – 2022 · GPA 3.46 / 4.0

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Probability & Queueing

Leadership

Community building and graduate mentorship at USC.

250+

Vice President

GRIDS, Graduate Data Science Club, USC

Lead analytics workshops, ideathons, and projects for a 250-member graduate data science community.

1:1

Graduate Mentor

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Mentor graduate students on data science career paths, technical communication, and professional development.

Technical Skills

Core tools and methods I use in production work.

Python, SQL, R, C/C++, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Spark, Trino, Kafka, Machine Learning, Statistics, Causal Inference, A/B Testing, NLP, NER, Forecasting, Tableau, Power BI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LoRA, RAG, LangChain, Multi-Agent Systems, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, CI/CD, Azure Synapse, Langfuse, Git

Languages & Databases

  • Python
  • SQL
  • R
  • C/C++
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Spark
  • Trino
  • Kafka

ML & Analytics

  • Machine Learning
  • Statistics
  • Causal Inference
  • A/B Testing
  • NLP
  • NER
  • Forecasting
  • Tableau
  • Power BI

Deep Learning & LLMs

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Hugging Face
  • LoRA
  • RAG
  • LangChain
  • Multi-Agent

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • REST APIs
  • CI/CD
  • Azure Synapse
  • Langfuse
  • Git

Contact

Email is best. I typically reply within 24 hours.

Email[email protected] Phone+1 (213) 255-6219 LinkedIn/in/shamikofficial GitHub/ShamikOfficial ResumeDownload PDF