Carousell Group

Leading a team of data scientists for developing a state of the art search and recommendation engine, including practical applications of generative AI in the customer support or product descriptions, working on price engine as the firm evolves its business model from third party to first party

Senior Director of Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Science

Worked with the team to draft the first data strategy for the 2 years covering  Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Product Analytics and Business Analytics Teams

Started a new discipline of Data Products led by a Data Products Manager

Senior Director of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

OLX Group

Leading the Product Analytics and Strategy for OLX Europe.

Building the Product strategy for OLX Europe with a big portfolio of Goods, Jobs, and Services serving millions of users in Europe. Leading the teams in understanding the opportunity space using Customer Journeys, Macro insights, Competitive landscape , drafting the vision, devising various methods of sizing via the top-down and bottom-up method, feasibility and execution strategy, Go-To-Market strategy across 5 countries leading all the way to Roadmap and Goals for the whole OLX.


Drafting new ways of working within the Analytics team to foster better ways of collaboration, working on cross-functional projects. The projects touch various customer journeys such Transactions, Buyers, Sellers, Growth and help understand the right monetization models, conversion analytics to optimize the product, retention and cohorts, A/B testing, rapid prototyping etc

Critical cross-functional projects involve building deeper data science models to explore some perplexing phenomenon, building deeper econometrics models for better monetization, building better data models to facilitate quick and consistent analytics on top of it

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Head of Product Analytics and Strategy (OLX Europe)

Leading the Product Analytics teams for Europe and Global teams - which span across all geographies such as Trust and Safety and Monetization teams

Working with the team and with other functions on building a robust data strategy for the data and analytics functions. Building up a team and drafting career plans, charter, roadmap, and vision for the analytics teams. Worked on the interview process and hiring strategy for the team

Worked on building the analytics strategy that went behind the rebranding of the platform across multiple channels. Helping the team build forecast models to accurately predict the impact of rebranding and building a prompt feedback loop into our Engineering and Product teams

Making the budget robust from the data viewpoint

Head of Product Analytics - OLX Europe and Global Teams

Heading the 30+ strong Product Analytics team spanning across multiple locations in Europe (Germany, Poland, Lisbon) and India

Working with the team on various arms of the product development covering topics for the whole user journey - Seller Experience, Buyer Experience, Trust and Safety, Monetization, Search and Discovery

Working on building a world-class product by enabling the Product teams to experiment with agility, gauge product success, advanced data exploration and modeling techniques to answer practical business problems and to drive strategy at an executive level.


Experience of working in strategic projects defining the goals, vision, metrics, frameworks for the whole product team. Additionally integrating them into the budget for the company as well

Head of Data Science - Product Analytics (OLX Europe)

Uber

* Leading the data science efforts for the Strategy and Planning Team

* Building the proactive and real-time technology to resolve complaints even before a user writes 

*Building forecasting models for various aspects of the business using even driven time series modelling, via ensemble of ARIMA, ETS and other models

*Developing a platform to monitor tweets at a real time level with sentiment analysis baked into it

*Developing a platform to analyze the global media channels and their perceptions about Uber using Google BigCloud, Google Big Query, Python and various NLP Techniques

*RNNs, Bag of words based analysis of various texts to compute the key phrases used by the customers by constructing various N-grams and word associations( Natural Language Processing )

 Analytics and Insight Lead (Data Scientist , Strategy and Planning)

Goldman Sachs

Quantitative Modelling
- Building models for evaluating the margin requirements for the hedge funds in the execution and clearing business
- Modelling the quantitative risk of equity and credit derivatives, convertible bonds and synthetic products

Risk Management for Hedge Funds
- Slicing and dicing of hedge funds portfolios to predict the risk posed by the market fluctuations in case of extreme events
- Building risk models to allow hedge fund managers to execute a wide range of investment strategies, which are immune to the market volatilities

Senior Quant Strats ( Sr. Data Scientist)

Myntra Designs Private Limited

Customer Segmentation to understand the firm's customer base and to drive retention programs
Sales and Revenue Analysis - Creating models to understand the revenue fluctuations 
Development of a catalog model to spot the inventory's effect on reduced/enhanced sales

Data Scientist

Amazon.com

Handled the cost fluctuations and price determination algorithms for various product lines across multiple geographies

Worked on a dojo-based framework to automate the price-alert system

Software Development Engineer (Full-Stack)

JP Morgan

Corporate Development Analyst - Development and enhancement for the web-based platform for portfolio management for HNIs . 

Created a scalable report generation tool using XSLT, XML and VBA frameworks to handle reports with >100MBs size

Analyst

University of Pennsylvania

Worked on estimating the population growth rate in US using linear models ( Maximum likelihood estimation ) and polynomial modes ( non-linear kernel density estimation ) and  on predicting the impending bankruptcy of a firm

Software Engineer

Bell Labs Lucent Technologies

Enhancement of the syslog-ng logging infrastructure used in VoIP-based products.

Intel

Enhancement of the validation tool for the Intel's smallest processor - Atom. Worked on figuring out the impact of branch instructions in reducing the processor's validation time

As the Senior Director of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence at Carousell Group, I lead the data strategy, data products, and product analytics for one of the largest online marketplaces in Southeast Asia. With 12 years of experience in data science, machine learning, and quantitative modeling, I have a proven track record of delivering data-driven insights and solutions that drive growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction across various sectors and geographies.

I am passionate about learning new domains and applying my skills and knowledge to solve complex and impactful problems. I have self-taught the basic concepts of computational neuroscience, nutrigenomics, quantum physics, epigenetics, behavioral psychology, meditation, physiology, anatomy, and topological spaces. I am also exploring design patterns in machine learning, ancient Indian spiritual schools of thought and Western philosophy, immunology and hepatology, and abstract algebra. My goal is to continuously expand my horizons and contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and well-being.

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