Chirag Juneja

Lead Data Scientist

Tiger Analytics•  January 2025 - Present•  Hyderabad

Led the development of an Image Recognition platform for planogram compliance for a large FMCG company with 3k+ daily active users and 50k+ potential worldwide users yet to be signed on. Deployed pruned and quantized computer vision models on mobile devices for offline inference, that can be updated via an OTA update. Designed a lightweight C++ inference engine based on ONNX, deployed as a React Native Turbo module for mobile devices catering to iOS and Android platforms., achieving minimal latency for enhanced performance, with the entire pipeline of 50+ inferences running under 3sec on low configuration devices. Implemented a resilient model-serving API with Ray Serve to efficiently handle batch processing of over 10,000 images within an hour.

Senior Data Scientist

Tiger Analytics•  January 2023 - January 2025

Constructed a Generative AI pipeline by finetuning diffusion models using LORA to generate synthetic data. This data was employed to train classification models for products in advance of their market availability. Engineered bespoke multi-modal computer vision models specifically designed for accurately identifying product sizes. Programmed a cross-platform image quality check pipeline for mobile devices to discard bad-quality images. The platform effectively reduced users' daily time commitment by 2 hours through the implementation of image recognition for compliance checks, while also providing enhanced visibility for stakeholders.

Data Scientist

Tiger Analytics•  October 2020 - January 2023

Handled the development of a Label Verification platform for compliance checks for a large FMCG company. Trained a combination of computer vision and NLP models for compliance validation of product label artworks. Utilized multi-modal LayoutLM (transformer) models taking both text and image as input for component identification. Assembled a robust data-gathering pipeline on AWS through web scraping and REST APIs for estimating insurance premiums for a global insurer. Created a web scraping engine for hotel prices for a Hongkong based client.

Software Engineer

Automotive Robotics India•  June 2018 - October 2020

Implemented REST API for a mining site server for a large earth-moving automotive company. Created UI for remote operation station console using Angular and ThreeJS. Designed and implemented a comprehensive sales data visualization dashboard within the ERP tool, enhancing visibility and fostering accountability.