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Dr. Animesh Deval

Dr. Animesh Deval

Data Scientist
Mumbai

Summary

Customer-focused professional with successful 4-year career as a Data Scientist. Resourceful manager offering history of success coordinating and monitoring machine learning model deliveries across various telco clients. Highly committed with hardworking mentality to maintain quality of services and products. Leading a team to solve business problems with machine learning, identifying patterns and extracting valuable insights for key stakeholders.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certificates

Work History

Manager

Digispice Technologies Limited
Mumbai
09.2020 - Current
  • SuperApp Analytics (Ongoing)

Understanding the requirements from cross-functional teams such as product team and marketing team


Identification of relevant KPIs to derive customer insights


Development of analytics to derive insights such as Total app installs/registration/uninstalls, Total active base, Total paying base, Total daily sessions, Average session time, Social media share, Average revenue per user, Top 10 services on the App, Customer retention rate, Customer lifetime value, Conversion rate, Repeat purchase rate etc at SuperApp platform level and individual service level


Development of music recommendations system - popularity, content-based and collaborative filtering


  • SLA Management Analytics

Developed and automated python scripts for the analysis of third parties responsible for SLA breach for the data stored across 54 servers.


Total 12 dynamic scripts were developed which could detect 30+ request and response patterns.


Detailed analysis showed ~ 0.1% transactions breached 3 sec response time.


The analysis helped the telco client to pin-point the problems present at the third-party to rectify the same to enhance their user's experience.


  • Development of Scalable Churn Management Module (CMM)

Innovative module by integrating 4+ machine learning models - Churn Model, Survival Analysis, Usage Segmentation, RFM (Recharge) Segmentation and Drop in Usage Automation of 4+ models for easy of use to clients through UI


Conceptualized CMM UI Layout for 4 modules Designing of Visualize & Explore platform for enhanced insights and reporting by the client


Designing of Build Campaign Use-case platform to encode customers based on use-case logic. This was achieved by Assistive Builder - most common use-case template and Custom Builder - advanced interactive visualization to help build custom use-case


  • Development of Recommendation Engine for telco prepaid

Developed and automated three recommendation systems to overcome cold start problem of new prepaid product and/or new customer viz. User based collaborative filtering, Content-based system and product affinity


Architect-ed A/B testing dashboard for easy monitoring performance of 3+ purposes: recommendation engine, analyze & compare the trends and the product journey

Deputy Manager

Flytxt Mobile Solutions Private Limited
Navi Mumbai
04.2019 - 09.2020
  • Team management and delegation of work (model development and improvement in the existing models) among team members
  • Machine Leaning Model Development

Deployment of 4 machine learning models: churn prediction, recommendation system, propensity to convert and multi-sim


Dealt with on-shore and 6 off-shore clients in Kenya, Afghanistan,Oman, Domino Republic, Ghana, Colombia.


Total deliveries of 14 models in the year 2019-2020


  • Research and Development

Acceptance of research publication on recommendation system at Malaysia Conference by IEEE


Rectification of existing A/B testing dashboard and further its development in pyspark for client in Kenya


Involved in improving existing recommendation system to align it with the client's market purchase trends.


  • Key Achievements

Onsite deployment of 3 models at Oman within 14 days, and cleared the delivery of ~40% of pending project revenue.

Assistant Manager

Flytxt Mobile Solutions Private Limited
Navi Mumbai
07.2018 - 03.2019
  • Research and Development

Thorough literature review and presentation to IITb professor Dr. Animesh Kumar on recommendation system developed in-house.


  • Machine Leaning Model Deployments

Accomplished the deployment of churn model at offshore clients in Ghana and Colombia


Succeeded in PoC deployment for offshore client in Austria

Young Scientist

National Chemical Laboratory, NCL
Pune
02.2016 - 07.2018
  • Principal Investigator

Synthesis and characterization of novel sophorolipids and their therapeutic efficacy in vitro

Jr. Research Associate

dtechnology Pvt Ltd
Thane
05.2015 - 01.2016
  • Research and Development

Assisted in developing R&D center


Handled an industrial scale project for the elimination of toxins, mainly aflatoxins, from different food commodities.

Education

Ph.D. - Biological Sciences

NMIMS University
Mumbai, India
07.2010 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

G.N.Khalsa College
Mumbai, India
07.2005 - 04.2008

Master of Science - Biological Sciences

NMIMS University
Mumbai, India
07.2008 - 05.2010

Skills

Problem solving and adaptability

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Certification

Management Essentials - Harvard Business School Online

Timeline

Management Essentials - Harvard Business School Online

07-2022

Negotiation Mastery - Harvard Business School Online

04-2022

Marketing Analytics - Udemy

10-2021

Certified 'Machine Learning Expert', Edvancer

04-2021

Manager

Digispice Technologies Limited
09.2020 - Current

Deputy Manager

Flytxt Mobile Solutions Private Limited
04.2019 - 09.2020

Assistant Manager

Flytxt Mobile Solutions Private Limited
07.2018 - 03.2019

Certified 'Business Professional R & SAS', Edvancer

05-2018

Young Scientist

National Chemical Laboratory, NCL
02.2016 - 07.2018

Jr. Research Associate

dtechnology Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 01.2016

Ph.D. - Biological Sciences

NMIMS University
07.2010 - 01.2015

Master of Science - Biological Sciences

NMIMS University
07.2008 - 05.2010

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

G.N.Khalsa College
07.2005 - 04.2008

Additional Information

  • Certificate of Appreciation for excellence in Service Delivery function, Digispice Technologies Limited (03-2022)
  • Champion of the Quarter, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd (Q3, 2019-20)
  • Champion of the Quarter, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd (Q4, 2018-19)
  • Promising New Joinee, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd (Q2, 2018-19)
  • Young Research Scientist – SERB, DST, Govt. of India (2016)
  • INSPIRE Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India (2011-2015)
  • Joint UGC-CSIR NET Examination, AIR: 234 Govt. of India (2010)


Awards and Recognition

  • Certificate of Appreciation for excellence in Service Delivery function, Digispice Technologies Limited (03-2022)
  • Champion of the Quarter, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd (Q3, 2019-20)
  • Champion of the Quarter, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd (Q4, 2018-19)
  • Promising New Joinee, Flytxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd (Q2, 2018-19)
  • Young Research Scientist – SERB, DST, Govt. of India (2016)
  • INSPIRE Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India (2011-2015)
  • Joint UGC-CSIR NET Examination, AIR: 234 Govt. of India (2010)
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