AI Engineer • Data Scientist

Uncovering The Grey Behind AI.

I’m Vaibhav Kestikar. I built The Grey Project because most AI education today either oversimplifies reality or overwhelms learners with abstraction.

My goal is simple: explain Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science in a way people never forget.

Vaibhav Kestikar
Why The Grey Project Exists

AI Education Is Broken.

Most AI content online falls into two extremes.

One side turns AI into marketing hype: motivational posts, exaggerated promises, and shallow tutorials that create excitement without understanding.

The other side immediately throws beginners into dense mathematics, research papers, and abstraction without helping them build intuition first.

Both approaches fail learners.

The Grey Project exists between those extremes.

“Grey” represents depth. Nuance. Systems thinking. The understanding that real world AI engineering is neither magic nor fear, but careful engineering, probabilistic systems, infrastructure, and learning.

My mission is to help developers and aspiring data scientists understand AI deeply enough that they can think independently, build confidently, and never feel intimidated by the field again.

Experience

Built Through Real Industry Experience.

Senior Data Scientist

ZScaler
2025 to Present

Building applied AI and advanced analytics systems focused on scalable enterprise impact, decision intelligence, and production grade machine learning workflows.

Lead Decision Scientist

Tesco Bengaluru
2022 to 2025

Worked across machine learning, recommendation systems, customer intelligence, pricing analytics, and large scale data science systems powering retail decisions.

Decision Scientist

Mu Sigma
2019 to 2022

Built foundations in analytical thinking, statistical systems, business intelligence, experimentation, and enterprise problem solving at scale.

Philosophy

No Hype.
No Fear.
Just Deep Understanding.

The future belongs to engineers and thinkers who understand systems deeply. Not people chasing trends.

The Grey Project is designed to help learners build: durable intuition, engineering clarity, and lasting understanding of AI systems.