soham dandapath

soham dandapath

AI Engineer II at T:0 (Airwallex)

AI engineer working where AI meets fintech. I take fuzzy problems and carry them all the way to systems that ship and hold up under real traffic.

Nowgetting my bearings as an AI engineer at T:0, Airwallex's in-house startup, and still re-reading the diffusion papers.

I build AI systems that make it out of the notebook and into production, and I build things from scratch to understand how they really work.

01About

Mostly, I want to know how things actually work.

I'm an AI engineer at T:0, a startup inside Airwallex. My path ran through Singapore and New York before the Bay Area: a BE in Computer Science from NTU, a stretch of internships from Shopee to Seagate, then an MS at Columbia with a focus in machine learning. The constant across all of it has been a stubborn kind of curiosity, the sort where I'll re-implement an idea from scratch just to find out how it actually works.

02Work

What I've worked on.

Jul 2026 – now
AI Engineer II · T:0 · Airwallex

AI engineer at T:0, a startup building within Airwallex. Building production systems at the intersection of AI and fintech, carrying problems from framing through to systems that ship and hold up under real traffic.

Jan 2024 – Jun 2026
Senior Data ScientistMay 2026 – Jun 2026
  • Customer-facing lead on our largest forecasting engagements, owning projects from problem definition to production
  • Led demand forecasting for the server business unit at a leading semiconductor company
  • Led yield forecasting at the world's largest berry producer, generating ~$5M in annual value
  • Managed release for our forecasting packages and mentored data scientists across teams and projects
Data ScientistJan 2024 – Apr 2026
  • Led demand forecasting for the largest CPG company in Guatemala, generating $2.3M in annual impact
  • Built a RAG-based LLM system for low-latency, policy-compliant document retrieval across C3 AI's internal documentation
  • Built and owned DRIPP, an internal Python deployment toolchain that reduced deployments from hours to minutes
  • Owned MetaML, the internal orchestration tool for time-series deployments
  • Led release management for forecasting packages, enforcing coding and packaging standards across teams
2023
Data Science Intern · C3 AI

Shipped an out-of-the-box hierarchical forecasting and reconciliation system, using post-hoc MinT/ERM and intrinsic DeepVAR-Hierarchical approaches for cross-level coherence, and integrated probabilistic forecasts with Integrated Gradients explainability so the outputs were both uncertainty-aware and interpretable.

2022
Data Scientist · Charles & Keith

Built a tree-based sales forecasting model for seasonal planning, a 95%+ accuracy image-similarity engine for product matching, and an order-management web app that improved accuracy while cutting manufacturing costs and stockouts.

2020 - 21
Earlier internships · Shopee, Seagate, Outstrip, CogniAble

A run of hands-on ML and data work: optimizing Airflow/HDFS pipelines and a compression tool that cut storage by 90%+ at Shopee; neural-net and tree models to forecast hard-drive test time at Seagate; a React and Rails KPI dashboard at Outstrip; and a two-stream I3D action-recognition model on AWS SageMaker for early autism screening at CogniAble.

03Projects

Most of these began as “I don't really get this, let me build it.”

Diffusion ModelGenerative models · 2023

A from-scratch implementation and experimentation sandbox for denoising diffusion models in PyTorch - forward noising, the reverse denoiser, and the sampling loop, derived by hand.

Fair Image Generation of Minority GroupsCausal ML · Generative models · 2023

A research project asking whether a structural causal model in the latent space of a bidirectional GAN can disentangle protected attributes well enough to generate minority-group images that fix a biased training set.

Co-Authorship Networkmost-starredNetwork science · Data · 2021

A network-science study of academic collaboration built from real DBLP bibliographic data: graph construction, centrality, and community detection used to study how a department's research reputation grew over time.

all projects, with case studies →

04Education

Where the fundamentals came from.

2023 - 24
MS, Computer Science (Machine Learning)
2017 - 21
BE, Computer Science

05Contact

This page grows as I do, so it's never really finished. If something here resonates, my inbox is open.