Jun 2025 – Sep 2025 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Apr 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Analytics, ML, Data products & AI

Apr 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr

• Data products & growth
• Responsible for growth while building data products that potentially can move the needle. Driving key initiatives for business which include:
• 1. Build and scale experimentation platform for product & business teams
• 2. Application of ML/AI for optimisation & maximisation across multiple business functions
• 3. Adoption of various systems internally to drive desired outcomes for the business
• 4. Identify & build new avenues within product which can be scaled for growth

Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Growth, strategy & experimentation
• Key initiative taken while leading the effort here is to have a dedicated focus on enhancing new player experience right from installation to activation with A23 Rummy. This initiative led to improving qualitative and quantitative metrics across the funnel right from installation to activation and early retention of players. We have improved few key metrics for business across the funnel which not only doubled the revenue from this focus area but also improved retention rates significantly.

Oct 2021 – Apr 2022 · 6 mos

• Responsible for Growth, Financial Analytics, Feature impact and A/B, Marketing/Retention Analytics, Risk/Churn/Fraud Analytics, Responsible gaming, BI & Data Engineering, Machine Learning and having fun while we do all of that !
• Built and scaled a high performance team of individuals.

Nov 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs

• Lead a team of analysts, data scientists & data engineers to build some very interesting things for business which include:
• 1. Scalable Data Engineering infrastructure,
• 2. Real time ML serving in production,
• 3. Interventions for Risk, Fraud, Recommendation, etc. in Product
• It is fascinating and fun to work with a group of highly motivated, passionate & data driven individuals.

Apr 2019 – Nov 2019 · 7 mos

• Business Intelligence
• Cleaned existing BI ecosystem to setup an enterprise BI architecture. Enabled Ad-hoc reporting across the group which scaled up data usage by 70% helping business take better decisions which resulted in better revenues
• Technologies: MicroStrategy, Vertica, Oracle, SQL
• Data Engineering
• Setup real time big data infrastructure to process and analyze larger volumes of data with quicker turnaround. Helped scale the group to think beyond existing data barriers which resulted in pushing multiple real time features creating massive business impact and opportunity for better retention of customers
• Technologies: Hadoop, Spark, Zeppelin, Cassandra, SQL
• Analyst/Machine Learning
• Understood the risk and fraud patterns in the system and built multiple fraud algorithms which reduced the spends by 40% and optimized the business to acquire quality customers. Was instrumental in building a product feature (developed the algorithm) which reduced the load of risk and fraud teams by 20% and has potential to reduce load by 80% .
• Technologies: Python, R, Pyspark, Excel, SQL

Sep 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jun 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai, India

• Support the Bank's Enterprise Data Management environment which hosts data sourced from multiple business functions across the group. Facilitate the environment to be up, scalable and running for the new as well as existing requirements coming in to ensure best business decisions out of the analytics.
• Technologies: MicroStrategy, Teradata, Hadoop

Mar 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Architect, Built and Administered sales Rep App for a pharma giant which supported offline usage for moving Sales representatives across US. Setup MicroStrategy cloud infrastructure on Azure & AWS and administered it while working on development of MicroStrategy Mobile iOS App. Also Administered MicroStrategy Environment for global business which had 100+ servers and were highly volatile. Key responsibilities included Data governance, code movement, deployments, etc. Worked as an Architect, Developer & Administrator.
• Key Technologies: MicroStrategy, SQL Azure, Amazon Redshift, Vector Ingres

Oct 2013 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Started career and scaled up to become MicroStrategy expert with delivering multiple solutions end to end.
• Worked for clients across Insurance, Healthcare/Pharma, Banking/Finance, Retail industries.
• Worked on establishing end to end BI ecosystems on cloud as well as in house enterprise environments
• Techonologies: MicroStrategy, Amazon Redshift, Vector Ingress, Visual crossing Servers, R, Python, Informatica, Paxata