Hardik Munjal
Data Scientist at Canada Life
About
Data Scientist with 6+ years of experience deploying production-grade LLMs, MLOps pipelines, and predictive models at scale. Specializing in Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, RAG systems, and enterprise ML solutions that deliver measurable business impact through advanced feature engineering and cloud-native deployment.
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Projects
Experience
Sep 2023 - Present
Data Scientist at Canada Life
● Architected and deployed Smoker Propensity Model using XGBoost and advanced feature engineering on Azure ML, improving underwriting recall by 20% and achieving 310% lift over baseline, delivering around 1,500 hours in annual automation savings ● Led LLM-powered feature extraction initiative using OpenAI APIs and prompt engineering to process 386K historical medical records, expanding usable training data by 96% with less than 4% error rate through data wrangling and integration ● Designed LLM Judge validation system for automated quality assessment of extracted features, partnering with underwriting teams to reduce manual validation workload while maintaining model reliability ● Established end-to-end MLOps infrastructure with MLflow, Docker, and CI/CD frameworks across FIT/UAT/PROD envi
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Data Scientist at Eaton India Innovation Centre
● Developed a change point detection algorithm for predictive maintenance of UPS devices using statistical analysis on 600+ UPS units with 20 parameters, deployed via Power BI dashboards and presented insights to operations teams ● Architected serverless monitoring solution on Azure Functions, reducing deployment time from 4 hours to 20 minutes while enabling real-time parameter tracking for critical infrastructure across multiple data centers
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Data Scientist at Hitachi Consulting
● Architected an end-to-end MLOps system using MLflow and Seldon-core for automated Kubernetes model deployment, reducing deployment time by 60% and eliminating DevOps dependencies for data science teams ● Built an NLP solution using AWS Textract, NLTK, and SpaCy for structured data extraction from transport documents, achieving 80% accuracy in automated field identification and entity recognition ● Developed ensemble models (XGBoost, LightGBM) on a 5GB manufacturing dataset, achieving 78% f1-score for tire defect prediction with SHAP-based interpretability for process optimization
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Associate Innovation Engineer at Zensar Technologies
● Developed CNN-based computer vision models for autonomous navigation and scene segmentation using 50,000+ curated images, achieving 78% steering prediction accuracy for a self-driving vehicle prototype ● Deployed production-grade facial recognition system achieving 79% accuracy for 40+ employees and footfall detection achieving 89% accuracy, processing 1,100+ concurrent requests per second via optimized Django REST APIs for business intelligence analytics
Education
2022 - 2023
Masters in Data Analytics
The University of Western Ontario, Canada
2014 - 2018
Bachelors in Technology, Computer Science Engineering
Relevant Courses: Engineering Mathematics | Database Management System | Data Structure & Algorithms | Analysis & Design of Algorithms | Object-Oriented Programming | Python | Machine Learning for Data Science