Skillate, showing how AI-powered algorithms can strengthen hiring

Skillate's Bipul currently oversees AI, investments, and overall growth. He sits down to discuss the company's strengths, innovations, and its future.

Prior to founding Skillate, Bipul worked as a Data Scientist at DataWeave Software Pvt Ltd, where he developed a machine learning model to classify the product categories of e-commerce products. He also worked as an advanced software engineer with Burning Glass Technologies for a little less than a year.

Bipul holds a B. Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IIT Guwahati. He has co-authored a paper on an autonomous river cleaning robot and a model for video classification using semantic keywords.

He holds the research publications in the field of Artificial Intelligence at International Forums like SPIE and IEEE.

Bipul is passionate about Cricket, Reading books, and Building software products.

The journey behind the idea

In January 2015, Bipul was working for an analytics software company in Chennai. Unhappy with his role, Bipul contacted various organizations with openings, but to no avail. The frustrating part was not that he was getting rejected, but that often, he would simply not receive any response from the recruiters.

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