Gaurav Sheni
Experience
Career
Alteryx - Software Engineering Manager
- Focused on building a data science platform to enable anyone to solve problems
- Continuing development of open source software from Feature Labs acquisition
- Created Woodwork, a library for data typing used in Featuretools, and EvalML
- Managing a team of software engineers and working closely with product management
- Provided feedback, coaching, mentoring and facilitate career growth of all direct reports
- Developed a product and staffing roadmap to achieve the team’s goals
- Leveraged feedback from customers and internal stakeholders to improve the team’s outputs
Feature Labs (acquired by Alteryx) - Software Engineer
- First engineering hire that helped scale the team from 3 to 10 people
- Architected enterprise ML platform for building predictive models
- Core contributor to Featuretools, the most popular feature engineering library
- Designed & created 110+ primitives (relational dataset calculations)
- Created tutorials, and data science courses to educate about feature engineering
- Developed custom ML algorithm for AWS SageMaker for scalable ML deployment
- Sole engineer for Flask application that serves 50K API calls on a monthly basis
Publication
- G. Sheni, B. Schreck, R. Wedge, K. Veeramachaneni and J. Max Kanter. “Prediction Factory: Automated Development and Collaborative Evaluation of Predictive Models.” ArXiv.org. N.p., 29 Nov. 2018 Web