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Dhiraj Naik

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Recognized as a 40 Under 40 India 2024 Leader.
  • Expert in pioneering analytics frameworks and data-driven cultures.
  • Over 18 years of experience in product analytics and business intelligence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Analytics expert with a strong focus on data-driven decision-making.

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Skills

Core Skills

AnalyticsData ScienceBusiness IntelligenceProduct AnalyticsData AnalyticsData GovernanceImplementation ManagementClient SolutionsBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

A/B TestingAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAnalytical ModelsBusiness ObjectsBusiness ProcessBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness RequirementsChange ManagementClient IntegrationCustomer AdvocacyData AnalysisData InstrumentationData IntegrationData Migration

About

Recognised as 40 Under 40 India 2024 Leader. At Razorpay, my focus is on pioneering comprehensive analytics frameworks that seamlessly integrate data across our organization. This role capitalizes on my proficiency in agile methodologies and my previous experience in creating data-driven cultures, where I have empowered product/business teams and leadership to make informed decisions. At Razorpay, I lead a cross-functional team of analysts to deliver actionable insights and solutions that assess impact, enhance customer advocacy, retention , potential business opportunities and revenue streams. I have over 18+ years of experience in product analytics and business intelligence across multiple B2C/B2B digital domains fintech, investment banking and enterprise. My core competencies include setting up analytics frameworks and systems from scratch, influencing product roadmaps and data culture, helping business connect the dots between various customer lifecycle journey such as user onboarding, activation, engagement improving lifetime value, conversion , revenue and retention. I am passionate about solving complex business problems using data, creativity and innovation and empowering my team to innovate and grow adopting the latest tech stack to accelerate the business. The ultimate goal is to continue fostering a data-first mindset across all facets of business and product, ensuring that every decision is supported by actionable insights.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

Razorpay

Head of Analytics

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • Lead Razorpay’s Gen AI and analytics strategy vision by partnering with BU leadership, PM and engineering teams to influence the product roadmap, prioritize feature rollout strategies and identify growth opportunities through a data-driven approach.
  • Manage multiple functional teams teams serving various BUs across org that develop actionable insights, scalable BI dashboards and advanced analytical models using Tableau/Python, serving senior executives, stakeholders and customers.
  • Devise and implement adaptive analytical methods, including ML validation, A/B and multivariate testing, market basket analysis, and predictive modeling, while embedding AI/ML for risk detection, fraud prevention, churn prediction, cross-sell recommendations and high-quality lead sourcing.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering leads to drive cost optimization and build scalable analytics platforms that integrate with AI/GenAI initiatives, powering experimentation and automation across the organization.
  • Leverage GenAI to design in-house analytics assistants that enable natural language query resolution, automated SQL generation, intelligent dashboards, and AI-augmented storytelling. These assistants empower business users with self-serve insights, accelerate decision-making, and enrich product/marketing workflows by combining behavioral data (feature usage, drop-offs, access paths) into end-to-end user personas to predict retention, reduce churn, and unlock revenue growth.
AnalyticsData IntegrationMachine LearningA/B TestingPredictive ModelingData Visualization+3

Angel one

Head of Analytics

Mar 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading customer advocacy using data insights and intution.
  • Setting up a analytics function comprising of analysts, Data engineers and alike from scratch .
  • Building an analytics framework and system of records/facts/EMRs from scratch 0->1 that can stich data across disparate siloed systems across the org.
  • Influencing product roadmap and driving data first culture with PMs and leadership across the product/business spectrum as a horizontal function.
  • Connecting the dots between onboarding a user -> activating them(first time use)-> engaging them for ongoing usage(recurring usage)-> and improving overall LTV.
  • Partnering with marketing, revenue and various channel teams to improve leads to conversion ratio and improve FYR.
AnalyticsData IntegrationProduct Roadmap InfluenceCustomer AdvocacyData-Driven CultureBusiness Intelligence

Intuit

Analytics Leader - Product and Data

May 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Product Analytics- Quickbooks - (Enabling product value using data insights)
  • Partner with BU leadership/PM/engineering teams to influence the product roadmap which will prioritize future feature rollout strategies and identify potential growth opportunities using a data driven approach.
  • Setting up a scalable new team of data analysts to cater the end to end product analytics vision for Quickbooks.
  • Setting up the product analytics framework from scratch including an end to end data instrumentation framework by partnering with PM/PD/Mktg teams and leadership across the QB desktop ecosystem .
  • Setting up global data standards for utilizing in analytics to evolve the analysis of various feature usage patterns/access points/user behaviour/drop off points that feed up into creating an end to end user persona to enable PM/marketing teams to identify churn/retention propensity, identify additional opportunities for revenue for product growth.
Product AnalyticsData InstrumentationGrowth OpportunitiesUser Behavior AnalysisData Science

Dell emc

Senior Principal Engineer - Advanced Data Analytics

Sep 2017May 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Spearheading the global project to build a digital platform and analytical framework to process heterogeneous data sources and produce a final state authoritative data source (ADS) for producing analytical models.
  • Designing patented insights and specialized analytical models using Tableau for senior executives (Internal and clients)
  • Managing Service management client analytical reporting for 80+ global accounts.
  • Managing development teams to design Business Intelligence frameworks that process various customer data to produce data marts for data reconciliation and data governance lifecycle.
  • Managing development teams to setup various analytic infrastructures from scratch i.e. Tableau Server, R Studio, Python, SSIS, Informatica with expert level proficiency on SQL/ Python.
  • Using data sets to analyze the impact of new features (e.g., A/Bs, multi-variate testing, switchbacks, casual impact, etc)
  • Experience managing stakeholders including strong communication and presentation skills
  • Managing reporting and development teams based out of the CoE in Bangalore and US
Data AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceData GovernanceAnalytical Models

Bank of america

Senior Data Analytics Specialist - Enterprise Data Management & Analytics

Jan 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • March 2017- Sep 2017
  • Lead the effort to instrument data governance across various data movement tools (NDM, Informatica, Datastage, SFTP, B2Bi) used within the Bank's (client) infrastructure.These data movement tools generate millions of records every day that lead to various data feeds that lead into a specific regulatory report such as FR_Y-14A, CCAR etc.
  • The project consists of identifying the data lineage, improving data quality capturing lineage across the data movement tools thereby identifying coverage and instrumenting a movement repository, setting up a reporting framework from scratch using RDBMS and BI technologies –SSIS/SSRS,Tableau/Business Objects that will enable end to end automated reporting of the data in a smart on-demand dashboard.
  • Leading the Advanced Data Analytics initiatives for the Core Technology team .
  • Identify operational problems by observing and studying system functioning and performance results and serving as a key SME in providing trending analysis and leading discussions with senior management for setting up target state and key metrics.
Data GovernanceData Quality ImprovementReporting FrameworkData Movement ToolsData Analytics

Deutsche bank

2 roles

Implementation Manager(GTB-Trade Finance & Cash Management Corporates)

Jan 2015Dec 2015 · 11 mos

  • Currently working as a Implementation Manager in the Global Transaction Banking division -under Trade Finance and Cash Management Corporates.
  • Implementing customized corporate banking solutions to ensure the clients have a seamless approach towards managing their banking and financial obligations in a transparent and risk free manner with access to the right technology and systems.
  • Integrating Client ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning) with Deutsche Bank's corporate banking framework to provide front end access to the end users alongwith robust back end pre/post processing of financial transactions which can be tracked and reported in various standard formats sucha s MT940/942 .
  • Ensuring the requirements are analyzed,understood and met accordingly as per client's expectations..Setting up the test schedules and helping coordinate the go live process.
Implementation ManagementClient IntegrationFinancial Transaction ProcessingClient Solutions

Lead Business Analyst

Jan 2007Dec 2014 · 7 yrs 11 mos

  • Currently working as an Associate in the Performance Management Team within the Global Technology division that is responsible for reporting the overall strategy performance of Service Ops organization and also responsible for systems development for in house applications in Deutsche Bank globally. Our tool landscape covers 52 countries spread over 4 continents with a global user base of 5000+ users.
  • I am currently working in the capacity of a Business Analyst/Project Manager responsible for the data analytics of several strategy KPIs and also maintaining and supporting a slew of toolsets under the team portfolio and helping design the user interfaces and process workflows
  • Responsible in roles of Product Manager/Business Analyst as a critical link between the Subject Matter Experts providing the business requirements and the development team trying to construct the solution for 360 degree review and validation .
  • Design dashboards and reports and conduct review meetings with the senior management for defining the future course of strategy and decision making.
  • Involved in gathering the business requirements, understanding them and translate them into technical requirements for information, features, and functions and communicate them to the rest of the application development team.
  • Coordinating with product development, teams and internal business units and decompose high‐level business requirements into an appropriate level of business rules and detailed user, functional and non‐functional requirements.
  • Spearing process improvement initiatives to increase the level and quality of service provided to internal and external customers.
  • Supporting design of the user interfaces and tool workflows to develop tool functionality workflows from its inception to the final implementation.
  • Providing data analysis and metrics from service and / or process owners, and prepare and deliver the management reporting.
Business AnalysisData AnalyticsUser Interface Design

Education

Northeastern University

MS — Computer Science

Aug 2005Jan 2007

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science — Data Science

Jan 2018Dec 2019

New Jersey Institute of Technology

MS — Computer Science

Aug 2005Jan 2007

The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

St Mary's High School, Belgaum

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