Hi, I'm Nishant Gerald. A Data Science Leader.



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About me

I'm the lead data scientist at Global Payments Inc., an S&P 500, finance technology company. I represent our Commerce Enablement Solutions (CES) business unit, where we build machine learning & software solutions to help merchants run and grow their business.

50+

Projects
Completed

5+

Years of
experience

20+

Applications
Developed

2000+

Employees
trained

My Skills

Leadership

90%

Federated Architecture

70%

Python

95%

Timeseries Forecasting

90%

Natural Language Processing

70%

Neural Networks

70%

Cloud Computing

85%

Distributed & Parallel Computing

80%

My Timeline

2021 - Present

Head of Data Solutions & Principal Data Scientist
Global Payments Inc.

Founded, directed and operationalized the Data Solutions division with 4 main functions - Data Engineering, AI/ML, Business Intelligence/Reporting, and Data Governance.

2019 - 2021

Bioinformatics Engineer
General Dynamics Inc.

Supported the CDC on a cientific computing & high-performance computing contract.

2019

Genomics Data Scientist
Ancestry.com LLC

Developed a quality control tool and a copy number variant detection pipeline.

2018 - 2019

M.S. Bioinformatics
Georgia Institute of Technology

Master's program and research in Bioinformatics, with a focus on human evolutionary genomics.

2014 - 2018

B.Engg Biotechnology Engineering
Manipal University

Undergraduate study in Biotechnology engineering, with a focus on genetic engineering and bioinformatics.

Personal ProjectsMy Work

Some projects I worked on in my free-time

Gin Scoreboard

Scoreboard for a game of gin, using a Streamlit framework


Cloud Storage

Personal cloud storage using a dockerized Nextcloud solution


Blog App

Blog web-application written using a flask framework


BeerMe App

Beer tracking application using a Flask framework


My BlogsMy Blogs

Motion Sensor

A how-to post on building an Arduino-based motion sensor at home