Ankit Haldar

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Reduced customer churn by 15%, saving $25M annually.
  • Increased Product Qualified Leads by 17% through A/B testing.
  • Identified profit leakages, improving profits by £2 million.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist with expertise in analytics for Technology, Retail, and Gaming industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningData ScienceData AnalyticsA/b TestingPredictive ModelingData VisualizationEtlStatistical Modeling

Other Skills

Churn ReductionML FrameworkCross-Functional ImpactLine-Level ChurnCustomer SegmentationExecutive ReportingCampaign ROIRoot-Cause AnalysisXGBoostCatBoostTableauFeature StoreModel RegistryPipeline Generation DashboardData Pipelines

About

Results-oriented Data Scientist with 10+ years of experience unlocking actionable insights through Machine Learning, A/B Testing, and CRM Analytics. Proven track record of driving business growth in the Technology, Retail, Gaming industries by developing data-driven strategies for demand forecasting and demand sensing and A/B tests to assess player engagement.

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

Brillio

Senior Data Scientist

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

  • Churn Reduction: Developed a gradient-boosted (XGBoost, CatBoost) propensity model identifying 85% of at-risk customers (top 3 deciles), enabling targeted interventions that reduced annual churn by 15% ($25M saved annually).
  • ML Framework: Led end-to-end design of an ML experimentation pipeline (feature store, model registry, monitoring), cutting experimentation and deployment time by 50%.
  • Cross-Functional Impact: Partnered with marketing to optimize a retention offer strategy, boosting acceptance rates by 35% and saving $18M annually.
  • Line-Level Churn: Built a hierarchical model predicting churn at line/customer levels, improving accuracy by 18% vs. legacy methods.
  • Customer Segmentation: Clustered high-value subscribers using RFM + behavioral data, increasing upsell conversion by 27%.
  • Executive Reporting: Automated churn reporting in Tableau, reducing manual effort by 25+ hours/month.
  • Campaign ROI: Analyzed 50+ retention campaigns, identifying under-performing segments and reallocating spend to save $2.5M/year.
  • Root-Cause Analysis: Mapped churn drivers (network issues, billing complaints) leading to a 15% reduction in service-related cancellations.
Churn ReductionML FrameworkCross-Functional ImpactLine-Level ChurnCustomer SegmentationExecutive Reporting+4

Confluent

Lead Analyst – GTM Strategy and Planning

Jan 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Lead and mentor a team of 4 senior analysts and analysts.
  • Designed, executed, monitored and statistically analyzed multiple split and multivariate A/B Tests increasing Product Qualified Leads (PQLs) by 17%.
  • Collaborate with global leadership for design and implementation of comprehensive pipeline generation dashboard. This interactive tool tracks individual and team performance, increasing 13% pipeline revenue, by assisting stakeholders with near real-time insights to optimize sales strategies.
  • Developed user driven, self-service platform to track metrics for Quarterly Business Reporting to tracking progress in metrics daily over longer time-frames (daily, weekly, monthly) with removal of all manual interventions.
  • Partnered with the data engineering team to design and maintain new data pipelines in Apache Airflow to fetch previously missing or newly added attributes to Salesforce. Maintained git repository to enhance created data pipelines for seamless reporting resulting in runtime reduction by 8%.
  • Tools: Tableau | Python | SQL(BigQuery) | Apache-Airflow | Salesforce | Git | CRM Analytics
A/B TestingPipeline Generation DashboardData PipelinesStatistical AnalysisTeam LeadershipData Analytics

Tesco bengaluru

2 roles

Lead Data Scientist

Promoted

Aug 2022Jan 2023 · 5 mos

  • Led a team of 4 analysts to unveil previously unidentified profit leakages through a comprehensive driver model analysis. This data-driven approach pinpointed hidden loss factors within retail operations, enabling implementation of targeted mitigation strategies. The resulting improvements yielded a combined profit increase of £2 million (GBP) across Central European stores.
  • Spearheaded a new initiative focused on demand forecasting and demand sensing through ARIMA/SARIMA across SKU x Channel x Location combinations, factoring in promotions, weather patterns and industry events to predict future demand, improving Merchandise procurement by 6%.
  • Natural Working Team (NWT) : Heading the CE team to help up-skill Enterprise Analytics team by conducting various sessions and helping them with project roadblocks
  • Tools: Tableau | SQL (Hadoop | Hive | Spark) | Python (Pandas | Numpy | statmodels | scikit-learn | seaborn)
Demand ForecastingDriver Model AnalysisARIMA/SARIMATeam LeadershipData SciencePredictive Modeling

Senior Data Scientist

Dec 2020Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Led team of analysts and category planners in collecting data and improving ways to measure KPIs to capture the most relevant and updated information.
  • Developed an End-2-End automated Decision Cockpit for Central Europe execs and Category planners. This cockpit keeps track of various crucial metrics to understand the health of the categories along with devising new strategies to improve the CPS (Customer Priority Score) of each category.
  • Analyzed the Hypermarket de-growth in CE region to reduce the loss due to Customer switching and increase of competition in various demographics. The analysis is projected to reduce Customer switching by 2% in Czech Republic market.
  • Create multiple automation in Python and VBA to enable automated reporting so as the decrease man hours. Benefits of weekly 30+ man hours were observed by the change.
  • Tools: Tableau | SQL (Hadoop | Hive | Spark) | Python | Excel | VBA
Automated Decision CockpitCustomer Switching AnalysisAutomationData AnalyticsData Visualization

Affine analytics

Senior Analyst

Jul 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Client: Mobile Game developer (May 2020 - Dec 2020)
  • ∗ Develop Apache-Airflow based ETL process in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for tracking in-game metrics. Analysed GCP usage and modified ETL process to reduce GCP costs by almost 50%.
  • ∗ Built highly customised Periscope dashboards for stakeholders to understand game performance.
  • ∗ Conceptualize new in-game features and run A/B Tests. Analyse A/B Test impact and suggest implementation of feature.
  • ∗ Undertake ad-hoc investigations to understand player behaviour. Discover new customer segments (player clusters) with monetization potential.
  • ∗ Implement new algorithm to track and eliminate/block cheaters from the game.
  • Tools: SQL (BigQuery) | Apache-Airflow | Python | Periscope | Google Docs Suite | Google Apps Script
  • Client: Gaming Console Manufacturer (Jul 2019 - May 2020)
  • ∗ Implemented a regression model for forecasting of sales for upcoming major games with MAPE less than 15% and used Time series in forecasting sales of franchise games which further helped in deciding partnership with major game studios.
  • ∗ Apply regression modeling techniques to prioritize advertisement banners on store website to capture consumer attention boosting sales.
  • ∗ Implement model into product to simulate revenue based on advertisement priority.
  • ∗ Create reports on requests like used console and disk analysis, product churn and analyse performance and impact of promotions.
  • ∗ Analyse potential customer targeting strategies for upcoming titles by defining and quantifying different segments of potential audience.
  • ∗ Create Tableau dashboards for various business verticals that enabled clients to analyse business
  • Tools: SQL (Snowflake) | Python | VBA | Excel | Tableau
ETL ProcessA/B TestingRegression ModelingData AnalyticsPredictive Modeling

Wns global services

Assistant Manager - Analytics

Dec 2018Jun 2019 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Offshore delivery & analytical lead (4+ members)
  • Extensively used SQL/Python to mine and structure data from multiple loyalty & transactional tables to automate & derive KPIs for a 5M+ loyalty customer base.
  • Developed Tableau & Excel-based dashboards to report Customer-Beverage Affinity & Basket preferences, Store performance analysis, Loyalty Metrics Dashboard, Collaboration with third-party services, etc.
  • Evaluated potential drawbacks of Loyalty team’s collaboration with an insurance- based third-party service, which set up the grounds for renegotiating their deal, saving up to £2.5M annually
  • Performed Look-alike customer profiling and segmentation using RFM metrics and K means clustering, setting up a framework for Test vs Control Post Campaign/Event Analysis
  • Used ARIMA and Exponential Smoothing models to determine baseline sales & assess incremental impact of the launch of Red cups during the Holiday season (UK market)
  • Create fully automated data extractor & feeder by scraping data for franchises from multiple websites using python selenium.
  • Tools: SQL (Oracle) | Python | Tableau | Excel | VBA
Data MiningDashboard DevelopmentCustomer ProfilingData AnalyticsData Visualization

Mma (marketing management analytics)

Data Analyst

Jun 2016Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Data Validation, Data Analysis – Ensuring reasonableness of data. Deciding and transforming raw data into model data.
  • Market Mix Modelling – Multivariate time series Modelling for better understanding of revenue derived by different marketing components.
  • Pricing Analysis – Log-Linear Models are generally constructed for Pharmaceutical clients to deep dive into the market scenario regarding what should be the optimal price for the newly launched medicine or post launch analysis and how the sales can be pushed up.
  • Effectiveness Analysis - Fragmenting effects of the marketing drivers to a more granular level (eg: Market/DMA level insights)
  • ROI Analysis & Optimization – Based on ROI, MROI, Optimization of Advertisement tactic suggesting client to decide their adverting spending pattern to maximize profit.
  • Implement client deliverable products based on pricing models for simulation of price change leading to changes in units and revenue.
  • Tools: SQL (MS-SQL) | Python | Tableau | VBA | Advanced Excel | SAS | R
Market Mix ModellingPricing AnalysisROI AnalysisData AnalyticsStatistical Modeling

Master engineering concern

System Administrator

Aug 2011May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Kolkata Area, India

Education

Praxis Business School

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga

Bachelor of Science - BS — Information Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2011

National Institute of Information Technology

Bachelor's Degree — Information Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2011

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