Sayon (pronounced: Sha-yon), based in Berlin, is a travelerโs soul with a camera in his backpack. As he traveled ~30 countries till before the pandemic, he dived into art, history, culture, and cuisine while having an eye for stories and photography.
Although life got busier with work and family in the last few years, photography and blogging has a been a hobby he nurture since he was 17. With passing years, he’s been less social online, and took up more and more offline hobbies โ thus the blog has been more of archival in the past year.
Sayon spent his early childhood in Rourkela & Midnapore in India before moving to Kolkata when he was 11. He did his undergrad in Computer Science Durgapur.
He moved continents at 22, and started his masters with Intelligent Systems in Kaiserslautern in Germany. He lived in Heidelberg and Dรผsseldorf before moving to Berlin. He natively speaks Bengali, Hindi, and English, and half-way there with German.
Professionally he leads a quick-commerce data science team at Delivery Hero since 2022. Before that he was bringing value in EMEA AI/ML ecosystem by pushing machine learning into business transformation with Amazon Web Services. Prior moving to Berlin, he was building and breaking stuff at trivago – developing user-centric industry experience in engineering large-scale data science solutions. Before trivago, he was diving academically with European Space Agency satellite imageries at SAP and DFKI.
He cherishes spending time with friends and family. He loves to try out new food, cook creative recipes, explore art and culture, meet new people, try out new sports, try another new beer, travel to new places, and weave stories! Both at work and personally, he is a keen learner who likes to demystify anything complex. He is passionate about learning things he hasn’t tried before, seek-out unique experiences, spark conversations and ask Why(s)!