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Ujaas Barvalia

Principal Data Scientist specializing in machine learning and generative AI

AtlassianRutgers UniversityNew York, NY12 Years ExperiencePrincipal Level

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Atlassian ML/AI engineer who has shipped end-to-end production systems combining classical ML, streaming infrastructure, and LLM-based personalization to improve onboarding and free-to-paid conversion. Particularly strong in turning research-style RAG and reranking ideas into low-latency, reliable product systems with robust evaluation, safety guardrails, and reusable platform services for other teams.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned end-to-end ML/AI systems from experimentation to deployment and iteration
  • Built real-time conversion prediction and personalization systems for free-to-paid onboarding
  • Strong production LLM/RAG implementation with evaluation and safety guardrails
  • Designed low-latency streaming ML architecture using Kafka, Spark Streaming, Redis, and FastAPI
  • Improved trial-to-paid conversion and onboarding engagement through iterative optimization
  • Translated research-grade retrieval/reranking approaches into scalable production systems
  • Balanced latency, cost, quality, and safety tradeoffs in GenAI systems
  • Created shared Python inference and LLM orchestration platform used across product teams
  • Improved engineering velocity by centralizing ML/LLM services and SDKs
  • Emphasis on rigorous testing with unit, integration, and golden-dataset regression checks

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Experience

Principal Data Scientist | Growth | AI LeadAtlassian · Nov 2021 – Present
Lead Data Scientist | AI EngineerHaven Technologies · Apr 2019 – Nov 2021
Data Scientist, ProductHaven Technologies · Jan 2018 – May 2019
Consultant, Strategy & AnalyticsDeloitte · Sep 2014 – Dec 2017
Business Intelligence AssociateJohnson & Johnson · Jun 2013 – Aug 2013

Education

Rutgers Universitybachelor, Business Analytics and Information Technology (2014)

Languages

English

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Ujaas BarvaliaPrincipal Data Scientist specializing in machine learning and generative AI