Kunal Sakariya — VP of Engineering
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Analytics expert with extensive experience in predictive modeling and data-driven strategies.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 17 yrs 1 mo
Skills
- Data Science
- Predictive Analytics
- Analytics
- Business Strategy
- Customer Analytics
Career Highlights
- Led analytics team to drive data-enabled decisions.
- Developed predictive models for customer retention.
- Established analytics practice from scratch.
Work Experience
Fino Payments Bank Ltd
Vice President - Head of Analytics (4 yrs 6 mos)
Netcore Cloud
Head Of Analytics (3 yrs 5 mos)
Associate Vice President - Analytics (11 mos)
Hansa Cequity
Manager - Customer Analytics (BFSI & Telecom) (1 yr)
Assistant Manager - Customer Analytics (Telecom) (11 mos)
Senior Business Analyst (11 mos)
Sha PU & Co.
Partner at a Gold Loan finance start up (2 yrs 2 mos)
ICICI Securities
Sr. Manager - Customer Analytics (Equity Business) (1 yr 6 mos)
Manager - Customer analytics (1 yr 9 mos)
Education
Master of Management Studies at K J Somaiya Institute of Management
Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) at Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics