Mark Eltsefon

Data Scientist

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • International experience across five countries
  • Mentored over 80 individuals in data science
  • Advocate for causality over correlation in data analysis
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science expert with a focus on marketing analytics and product optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Causal InferenceData ScienceMachine LearningA/b TestingProduct Analysis

Other Skills

Data VisualizationStatistical ModelingAnomaly DetectionSQLFlaskTableauNumPy

About

From 9-5, Iโ€™m a staff data scientist focusing on measuring the impact of marketing activities, product launches, and new features, and building models that help products grow. Outside of these hours, I enjoy teaching people of various skill levels through approachable lessons and comprehensive resources. I also apply my skills in math and data science to everyday activities, such as playing football and poker. My mission is to inspire 10 million people to follow their dreams and pursue careers as data professionals. Hereโ€™s more about my journey: โ†’ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž: Worked across five countries, gaining a global perspective on data science and business. โ†’ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž: From TikTok to Meta, gaming to banking, my experience covers a wide spectrum of industries. โ†’ ๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: Focused on experiments, A/B testing, and causal inference with a knack for practical data applications. โ†’ ๐Œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ: Successfully mentored 80+ individuals, helping 50+ achieve significant career advancements. Connect with me to discuss data science, career growth, or simply share insights on the latest in tech.

Experience

Meta

Staff Data Scientist

Apr 2024 โ€“ Present ยท 1 yr 11 mos ยท London Area, United Kingdom

  • Spearhead marketing projects across various regions, ensuring alignment with global strategies
  • and goals
  • Design and implement advanced causal inference methodologies to assess the impact of
  • marketing activities, driving data-informed decisions
  • Lead the design and execution of product-related experiments for platforms like Instagram and
  • Facebook, contributing to product enhancement and user engagement
Causal InferenceData VisualizationStatistical ModelingA/B TestingData Science

Gelato

2 roles

Data Science and Product analytics Lead

Oct 2023 โ€“ Apr 2024 ยท 6 mos

Senior Data Scientist

Jan 2023 โ€“ Oct 2023 ยท 9 mos

  • Lead the development and implementation of an experimentation culture within the organization.
  • Build predictive models to understand and optimize customer LTV. Utilize advanced statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify key factors influencing customer retention, engagement, and monetization.
  • Drive the development and implementation of a robust MLops architecture.
  • Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous learning, mentoring data scientists. Provide guidance on best practices.
Machine LearningStatistical ModelingData VisualizationData Science

Tiktok

Senior Data Scientist

Oct 2021 โ€“ Jan 2023 ยท 1 yr 3 mos ยท Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Built the measurement algorithms by utilizing different ML techniques to detect bad actor
  • behavior and take necessary enforcement actions. It helped to improve recall metric by 2%
  • Cultivate A/B testing culture. Incorporate the practice of properly utilization of multi-hypotheses testing , experiments acceleration methods and different methods to gauge CTR
  • metrics.
  • Collaborate with XFN teams in the design of A/B tests and overall statistical analysis for
  • launching new features , such as global mute feature
  • Develop an anomaly detection system for the north star and quadrail metrics that has decreased the response time of the business teams to fluctuations in various dimensions by 53%.
Data VisualizationAnomaly DetectionA/B TestingStatistical ModelingData Science

Jam city

Product analyst lead

Jan 2020 โ€“ Sep 2021 ยท 1 yr 8 mos ยท Berlin, Germany

  • Lead the product analytics team
  • Designed ETL workflows and executive-facing dashboards to monitor key business metrics and to ensure timely reporting to cross-functional teams.
  • Executed and analyzed A/B tests. Cultivated A/B testing culture, incorporated various ways to speed up experiments: CUPED, CUPAC, Stratification.
  • Developed first purchase prediction model that led to 7% increase in purchase conversion rate
Anomaly DetectionA/B TestingProduct AnalysisStatistical ModelingCausal InferenceData Science

Home credit and finance bank

Product Analytics/ Data Science lead

Jul 2016 โ€“ Jan 2020 ยท 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Lead the several teams of data scientists , product and system analysts (15+ people)
  • Implement various new external data sources into scoring model , improving ROC AUC by 3%
  • Develop and execute recommendation models , increasing CTR by 5%
  • Present analyses on our loan ecosystem to help finding new insights about data and reevaluate
  • our goals to reflect that.
Machine LearningData VisualizationAnomaly DetectionA/B TestingCausal InferenceData Science

Alfa-bank

Data Scientist

Jun 2013 โ€“ Jul 2016 ยท 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Conduct analysis to provide clear understanding and insights to complex business cases
  • Provide profound expertise in data mining, measuring business performance and research using mathematical, statistical and experimental tools & techniques while combining data from various sources
  • Perform exploratory analysis, visualize results and present it to decision makers
A/B TestingData Science

Education

Bauman Moscowย State Technical University

Master's degree โ€” Industrial Logistics

Jan 2007 โ€“ Jan 2013

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