Timeline — Aftaab Hussain

Dec 2025
— Present

Data Scientist

Current

Perfios · Bengaluru, India

Working on NLP and entity-resolution systems for credit-risk pipelines. Shipped an ICD family classifier over health-insurance claims, and currently researching a bank-narration entity-matching engine designed to stay accurate and fast at millions of transactions per day.

NLP RASA DIET Entity Matching Credit Risk Fintech

DIET-based ICD family classifier — 94% accuracy · 91 F1

Tackled severe class imbalance via targeted data augmentation

Researching entity matching on bank narrations — target: millions of txns/day

Jun 2024
— Dec 2025

Founding Member & Data Science Lead

Silofortune · Karnataka, India

Led data science for a camera-only livestock health platform. Architected the 22-model computer vision stack — YOLO detectors, pose estimation, segmentation, monocular depth, and regression heads — that powers the GauSwastha health engine and GauSampurna app end-to-end. Demonstrated that AI can change lives beyond scale considerations.

Computer Vision YOLOv8 AWS Lambda Active Learning WhatsApp API VQA

400–500 paid scans per day via WhatsApp + API

AWS Lambda inference pipeline optimised from 14s → 4s

Validated by Government of Karnataka · used in state veterinary hospitals

5× labelled dataset via human-in-the-loop data engine

Leading voice-native interfaces and Visual Question Answering for farmer accessibility

View GauSwastha case study →

Sep 2021
— Jun 2024

Founding Member & Data Science Lead

Started as intern

AltQube · Bengaluru, India

Joined as an intern analysing crude-tanker movement data for alpha generation. Grew into a founding member owning the product vision and engineering of a broker-agnostic investment advisory platform — mutual fund integration via BSE Star MF, AI-powered equity portfolios, and professional-grade portfolio analytics. Hired the tech and product teams; led app design from concept to Play Store launch.

Financial ML FastAPI Markowitz Alternative Data NLP OR-Tools

12 FastAPI microservices — market + alt-data (Google Trends, FII flows, crude-tanker density, macro)

Markowitz recommendation engine reduced portfolio risk ~25%

Portfolio Health microservice with <500ms response time

Orbis route-planner cut driver km by 15%

Hired tech & product team · shipped to Google Play Store

Sep 2021
— 2025

B.E. Information Science & Engineering

Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) · Bengaluru, India

Specialised in machine learning and systems engineering. Balanced a full course load with running the AltQube startup from semester one and joining Silofortune in the final year — managing engineering, product, and academic deadlines in parallel.

Machine Learning Systems Engineering Data Structures Algorithms

CGPA 8.4 / 10

Member of Edhitha technical club — built drones and early computer vision models

Ran AltQube from sem 1; joined Silofortune in final year — both in parallel with coursework

2019
— 2021

Class XI–XII · Science

KV Malleswaram · Bengaluru, India

Focused on Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry during the two most intensive years of school. Competitive exam preparation built a discipline for extended study and rigorous problem-solving — the same focus that later carried into building startups while in college.

Mathematics Physics Chemistry

90% in CBSE Class XII examinations

Built the technical foundation for computer vision and AI work that followed

— 2019

School

Army Public School · India

High academic performer with a strong record across science exhibitions, quizzes, debates, and cultural events. The NCC Air Wing taught structure, discipline, and the drive to aim higher — values that shaped everything that came after.

NCC Air Wing Science Leadership

NCC Air Wing member — honoured as Best Cadet for Karnataka

Science exhibitions, debates, and cultural events — consistent high performer

From curious kidto AI systems that ship.

From curious kid
to AI systems that ship.