Organisation
~50 people
ML engineers, applied scientists and research scientists in the Dream11 AI/ML organisation I led.
02 · Industry
Applied AI.
Built for scale.
From engineering and data science to building teams, production ML systems and a new company.
Production
~60 ML systems
Across personalisation, forecasting, risk and payments.
Platform scale
250M+ users
The scale served by Dream11’s production AI, as described in my departure reflection.
The Dream Sports chapter
At Dream11, I built the data science function from scratch. The work spanned the contest economy, personalisation, forecasting, fraud, payments and generative AI.
Our journey moved through classical ML, large-scale recommendations and forecasting, causal inference and reinforcement learning, and then generative AI and foundation models. Alongside production work, the team presented and published at more than 10 national and international conferences and collaborated with Columbia University.
Career
Current
PlayVision AI Pvt Ltd
Co-founder
Building customer-facing products in applied AI.
Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Dream Play
Head of Data Science & AI
Listed alongside my Dream11 leadership role during this period.
Mar 2017 – Jul 2026
Dream11
Vice President · Head of Data Science & AI
Lead Data Scientist (2017–2021) → Principal Machine Learning Engineer (2021–2022) → AVP, Data Science (2022–2024) → VP, Head of Data Science & AI (2024–2026).
May 2016 – Mar 2017
Craftsvilla
Lead Data Scientist
Data science leadership in e-commerce.
Apr 2014 – May 2016
Housing.com
Software engineering → Data science
Software Development Engineer, then Data Scientist and Data Scientist, AdTech.
Jun 2013 – Apr 2014
Ivy Comptech (bwin.party)
Software Engineer
My first full-time engineering role after IIT Bombay.
May – Jul 2012
Geometric Ltd.
Software Developer Intern
An early industry experience during my undergraduate studies.
Writing · Research · Speaking
Ideas from the work.
My writing
Closing the Dream11 chapter
A reflection on building the AI/ML function, four waves of technology, the Columbia collaboration and starting up in applied AI.
Read my post →Team research I shared · AAAI 2026
Text-to-SQL and urgency-aware ranking
Hitesh Kapoor shared the team’s accepted research on schema-aware LLM fine-tuning and recommendation systems. These are team-authored papers, not my personal publications.
Read the research announcement →Dream11 engineering · Shared reading
Personalisation with Darwin
A look at the team’s ML platform, real-time match re-ranking, cohort recommendations and inline inference.
Read Dream11’s overview →Speaking · Mumbai Tech Week 2025
Machine learning at Dream11 scale
My masterclass invitation on the infrastructure and real-world applications behind Dream11’s ML systems.
View my session post →Career dates and experience drawn from my LinkedIn profile; team scale and impact from my public posts. Current company name updated to PlayVision AI Pvt Ltd.