Rohan Rao (a.k.a. ‘vopani’) currently works as a Senior Data Scientist @ H2O.ai.

He is a post-graduate in Applied Statistics from IIT-Bombay and part of elite group of Kaggle Grandmasters. His core expertise lies in driving, pipelining and building Machine Learning solutions hands-on.

Rohan’s work has revolved around leading small teams and architecting end-to-end ML-driven solutions in products/platforms and getting them live into production using Python (Jupyter), Scala (Zeppelin) and R (RStudio).

Prior to H2O.ai, he has worked with multiple startups in the machine learning space across various industries, platforms and products.

Apart from Data Science, he’s an 18-time National Champion in Sudoku and Puzzles, having represented India at the World Championships last 13 years.