Kunal Sakariya

VP of Engineering

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India17 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led analytics team to drive data-enabled decisions.
  • Developed predictive models for customer retention.
  • Established analytics practice from scratch.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Analytics expert with extensive experience in predictive modeling and data-driven strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data SciencePredictive AnalyticsAnalyticsBusiness StrategyCustomer Analytics

Other Skills

Big Data AnalyticsBusiness Growth StrategyClient AcquisitionCross SellCustomer RetentionCustomer SegmentationData AnalyticsData MiningData ProcessesForecasting Business MetricsForecasting ModelsFraud AnalyticsLogistic RegressionMachine LearningMarket Mix Modeling

About

Currently heading the Analytics practice at Fino Payments Bank – Incubated the data science team and scaled it up to become a center for decision making in the bank A data storyteller with experience of solving business problems using strong business domain understanding coupled with the power of statistics & machine learning algorithms 10+ years hands-on experience in building Descriptive, Predictive & Prescriptive analytics solutions to solve business challenges on Segmentation, Cross Sell, Lead Scoring, Customer Retention, Forecasting b’ness metrics & Fraud Analytics Played an instrumental role in helping 20+ Indian & global brands take data driven calculated decisions (spanning industry domains like Banking, Equity Broking, Insurance, DTH, Ecom-Retail, Job boards & QSR) Competencies: Data Science, Consulting, Team leading, People Development, Project management, P&L Orientation & Business growth strategy Programming skills: SAS, SQL, R & Python Data modeling skills: Linear Regression, Random forest, Logistic regression, Naïve Bayes classification, Association Rule mining, Collaborative & Content based Filtering, K-means clustering, KNN classification, Time series forecasting & ARIMA modeling

Experience

Fino payments bank ltd

Vice President - Head of Analytics

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Collaborating with Sales & Distribution, Product, Marketing, Finance & Risk functions to drive data-enabled decisions
  • Managed the development of predictive models using ML for Customer cross sell , 13th month Renewals (subscription accounts), Merchant retention & marketing effectiveness
Predictive AnalyticsMachine LearningData ScienceProject Management

Netcore cloud

2 roles

Head Of Analytics

Apr 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Leading a team of Data analysts & Data scientists that provides advanced analytics using ML models to clients in India, SEA, UAE & Nigeria regions that span industry domains like QSR, Banking, Equity Broking, Life Insurance, General Insurance, Online Travel, Retail, Job Boards
  • In charge of driving day-to-day analytics operations & exploring ways to improve quality of analytics solutions on a consistent basis
  • Ensuring timely delivery of solutions and strategic consulting to support the client’s marketing initiatives
  • Responsible for client acquisition strategy, sharing commercial proposals with prospects & defining scope of engagement with clients
  • Responsible for P&L of business, pricing of contracts & resource allocation strategy
Machine LearningData AnalyticsClient AcquisitionData ScienceAnalytics

Associate Vice President - Analytics

Apr 2017Mar 2018 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Set up the Analytics practice from scratch at Netcore & responsible for business growth strategy
  • Building Predictive Analytics solutions that leverage client's customers' demographic, transactional & marketing channel response data to identify opportunities for increasing upsell / cross sell & reducing customer churn
  • Created the go to market strategy for Analytics solutions across India, SEA, UAE & Nigeria regions
  • Built the right mix of team to cater descriptive & predictive analytics requirements
Predictive AnalyticsBusiness Growth StrategyData ScienceBusiness Strategy

Hansa cequity

3 roles

Manager - Customer Analytics (BFSI & Telecom)

Apr 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr

  • Manager (April, 2016 to April, 2017)
  • Playing a dual role of an Analytics team lead and a Data Scientist at Hansa Cequity
  • Leading a 15 member team responsible for providing actionable analytical insights for clients spanning across industries like DTH, Insurance & Retail equity broking
  • Built a Market Mix Model with 80%+ accuracy to predict the sales of DTH boxes in response to change in the ATL-BTL spends on print / TV / radio, addition of distribution outlets, product pricing & competition product pricing
  • Developed a KNN model to classify all the customers of the insurance client into income segments basis transactional variables and income data of sample set of customers
  • Train and supervise Analytics team and ensure that team meets the analytical needs of the clients
  • Translate the client's business problem into analytical problem and give the corresponding understanding to the team
Customer AnalyticsMarket Mix ModelingData Science

Assistant Manager - Customer Analytics (Telecom)

Promoted

Apr 2015Mar 2016 · 11 mos

  • Leading a 5 member team responsible for providing actionable analytical insights for a DTH client
  • Applying statistical and data mining techniques to understand subscriber behavior, leverage cross sell opportunities, and generate insights on subscriber churn for one of the leading DTH service providers in India
  • Developed a predictive model (log linear regression) to simulate the varying influence of advertisements, pricing & airing time slot on addon channel subscriptions (for a DTH client)
  • Developed a Naive Bayesian model to classify the tweets of customers (who had savings bank accounts with the banking client) into categories of interests where cross sell opportunities were available
Predictive ModelingData MiningData ScienceAnalytics

Senior Business Analyst

Apr 2014Mar 2015 · 11 mos

  • Built a cross sell model (logistic regression) to predict the propensity of subscribers to subscribe to a specific add-on channel pack of our DTH client
  • Scoring of cross sell models (logistic regression models for add-on channel subscription packs) and normalising the output of each of these models to finally predict the 2 add on channel packs most likely to be bought by the subscribers of a DTH client every month
  • Creating model & campaign lift reports to measure the efficacy of predictive models
Logistic RegressionModel ScoringData Science

Sha pu & co.

Partner at a Gold Loan finance start up

Nov 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Setting up data processes for identifying anomalies in repayment patterns & sharing these insights with the collection team
  • Assigning risk scores to customers based on data of past repayment activity
  • Applying predictive analytics to build a model to predict customers who are most likely to default on their interest payments and/or principal amounts so as to enable the collections team to speed up on the loan recoveries.
Data ProcessesPredictive AnalyticsAnalytics

Icici securities

2 roles

Sr. Manager - Customer Analytics (Equity Business)

Promoted

Apr 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Built a forecasting model with 85%+ prediction accuracy to predict key growth drivers of NSE listed companies, this model was built as a research tool offering for institutional clients
  • Identifying potential customer segments for launching new derivatives products at ICICI direct by profiling on attributes related to their trading / investment behavior, risk appetite & demographics
Forecasting ModelsCustomer SegmentationData Science

Manager - Customer analytics

Jun 2008Mar 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Simulation Analysis for assessing revenue impact on business before launching new pricing plans for equity & derivative products and presenting the findings to key decision makers at various management levels
  • Model scoring (logistic regression) to predict traders / investors most likely to stop trading in near future and then creating proactive retention strategies for each customer segment
Simulation AnalysisLogistic RegressionData Science

Education

K J Somaiya Institute of Management

Master of Management Studies — Finance and Financial Management Services

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics

Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS)

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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