Vaibhav Kulkarni
PhD - Information Systems
Data Engineering | ML | Information Security |
Hi, I am Vaibhav (pronounced: Y-bhav). Welcome to my personal website! I am a Software Engineer, interested & experienced in Data Engineering, Machine Learning & Information Security. I enjoy building & scaling up infrastructures to ingest & process large-complex data to serve responsive & user-friendly applications. I am also experienced in conducting research & productionizing ML-based services. I am passionate about writing clean code & a strong proponent of the guidelines in The Pragmatic Programmer. I also like to contribute to open source projects.
Currently, I work in the capacity of Data Engineering Lead at Debiopharm based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, I have worked in several engineering roles with enterprises providing services in Genomics, Supply-chain & Internet-of-Things domain. I have a doctorate in Information Systems, where my research was focused on designing Privacy-preserving ML-based Information Systems. During the course of my PhD, I worked on diverse methodological & applied industrial projects, ranging from information theoretic analysis of ML models & building services to address the free-rider problem on public transport networks, in collaboration with Transports Publics Lausannois.
Interests
- Scalable ETL pipeline design
- Microservices infrastructure
- Privacy-preserving ML systems
- Data modelling; DB development
- Applied machine learning
- Algorithmic optimization
- Homomorphic encryption
Education
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PhD. Information Systems, 2019
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M.Sc. Embedded Systems, 2015
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M.Sc. Information Technology, 2014
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B.Sc. Electronics Engineering, 2012
