Aayush Chaudhary
ML scientist & startup co‑founder — large‑scale recommender and generative AI
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Joined August 2025
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Summary
Experienced ML systems engineer focusing on large‑scale recommendation and reinforcement‑learning solutions for high‑traffic consumer products. At Dream11 Aayush worked on production ML systems, experimentation and causal modelling to improve engagement and monetisation, and has publications that apply causal and bandit methods to payments and upselling. notion+2
Early‑stage founder and product operator in generative AI: co‑founder at Arai Labs building Magic Lamp, an AI video‑creation/editing product that blends generative models with 3D/CGI workflows to help creators produce studio‑quality short video faster. arailabs+1
Active community contributor and writer: participates in MLOps community events, writes technical and career posts on Medium, and maintains public code and learning resources on GitHub — signalling a blend of hands‑on engineering, community engagement and knowledge sharing. medium+2
Work
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Assessing the Impact of Upselling in Online Fantasy Sports
September 1, 2024ArXiv / conference paper studying upselling intensity on Dream11: models users' deposit behaviour, experiments showing tradeoffs between deposit metrics and user satisfaction, and uses causal meta‑learners to personalise upsell intensity.
10 Key Lessons: Analytics to Data Science Transition
December 1, 2023Medium post reflecting on transitioning from analytics roles to data‑science and ML systems, sharing career lessons and practical advice.
Maximizing success rate of payment routing using non‑stationary bandits
January 1, 2023Conference paper on payment routing framed as a non‑stationary bandits problem (listed on Google Scholar as a co‑authored work).