Summary
Bhushan Kapkar is a Senior Data Scientist and GenAI architect based in Hyderabad with over a decade of experience building production-scale ML and LLM solutions for healthcare, supply chain, and enterprise domains. He leads data science teams at Optum, designing and fine-tuning instruction-tuned LLMs (Azure OpenAI and Llama2), deploying autoscaling Azure ML endpoints and dockerized applications for clinical claims analytics. His background spans end-to-end system design—data engineering on Hadoop/Azure Databricks, feature engineering, deep neural architectures with attention mechanisms, and MLOps—paired with hands-on experience in SQL, Azure, and AWS. Known for driving measurable operational improvements (from Six Sigma initiatives to production ML), he blends technical leadership with cross-functional stakeholder collaboration across global teams. An active learner and volunteer in the Python community, he brings a practical focus on turning research-grade models into reliable, auditable healthcare solutions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and Communications Engineering at YCCE
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Operations Management and Supervision, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Operations Management and Supervision at Indira Institute of Managment
English, Marathi, Hindi, French