IFTIKAR AHMED
Product Analyst
Summary
Experienced product analyst with 4+ years of experience driving data-driven decisions and implementing impactful solutions to enhance platform safety and user experience. Proficient in SQL, Retool, and API integration for developing real-time moderation systems, analyzing model accuracy and cost, and creating real-time monitoring tools. Demonstrated success in delivering cost-saving initiatives, optimizing operational efficiency, and fostering a data-driven culture. Skilled at translating complex data into actionable insights and collaborating cross-functionally to achieve strategic business objectives. Seeking a challenging role to further leverage analytical expertise and technical skills in driving product innovation and growth.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Analyst
Mohalla Tech Private Limited (ShareChat)
04.2024 - Current
- NSFW Chatroom Moderation: Developed logic, crafted SQL queries, and built a Retool moderation tool to proactively identify and flag NSFW content in chatrooms. Integrated API calls within Retool to further enhance detection, leading to a significant reduction in NSFW content prevalence.
- New Model Accuracy & Cost Estimation: Analyzed the accuracy and cost implications of new models, providing insights for model selection and deployment.
- Moj Live Real-time Moderation: Built SQL query logic, implemented APIs, and created a real-time moderation Retool for the newly launched Moj Live product, ensuring a safe and user-friendly experience.
- Live Product Heuristic Logic & Cost Reduction: Developed heuristic logic for live product moderation and implemented cost-saving strategies, resulting in optimized moderation efficiency and reduced expenses.
- Creating Dashboard: Live interactive real-time dynamic dashboard for different metrics, prevalence.
- Setting up P0 alerts: Set up alert for any breakdown or leakages in pipeline based on historical data.
Senior Associate (Analytics)
Mohalla Tech Private Limited (ShareChat)
5 2022 - 04.2024
- Cost-Driven Project Implementation: Conducted a detailed analysis of historical data for tag filters, leading to the implementation of a cost-driven project resulting in significant monthly savings. Analyzed historical data, implemented a cost-driven project resulting in monthly savings of 4 lakhs.
- NSFW Model Enhancement: Analyzed a large dataset provided by a market-standard NSFW model. Compared it with our in-house NSFW model, deriving effectiveness, recall, precision, and insights to address model leakages.
- Transparency Report Automation: Automated the generation of Transparency Reports, slashing manual effort and processing time.
- Internal Retool Development: Developed an internal Retool tool for streamlining the in-house misinformation identification process. Utilized SQL to create tools like Friendzone moderation and in-house hate speech.Detection through OCR mechanisms.
- User Behavior Study: Conducted a comprehensive study on user reporting behavior, assessing accuracy ratios for proactive users.
Automation of Misinformation Detection: Implemented automation for detecting misinformation and hate speech content based on similarity.
Operation Associate
Mohalla Tech Private Limited (ShareChat)
10.2020 - 04.2022
- Manage and support the 2-3 external agencies & digging data from database to find operations records of agencies
- Handiling the quality analysis of work done by external agencies responsible for making the plapfrom safe and healthy for the users
- Handiling quality analysis of BPO teams
- Taking care of feed, trending tags, temporal tags, and permanent tags.
Technical Writer & Custom ROM Develpoer
droidgyan.com (freelancing)
01.2014 - 01.2016
Education
M.Tech - Department of Renewable Energy Engineering
MAKAUT,WB(GOVT)
01.2020 - 01.2022
B.Tech - Department of Electrical Engineering
Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology
01.2017 - 01.2020
Diploma - Department of Electrical Engineering
Murshidabad Institute of Technology
01.2015 - 01.2017
Skills
Technical Skills:
SQL
Google BigQuery
Google Looker
Google Data Studio
Redash
Metabase
Apache Superset
Retool
Microsoft Excel
MATLAB
AutoCAD
Power BI
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Database Management
Data Cleaning
Data Preprocessing
API Integration
Soft Skills:
Leadership
Strategy
Teamwork
Innovation
Project Management
Analytical Thinking
Attention to Detail
Communication
Time Management
Curiosity
Business Acumen
Accomplishments
- Value Champion - Speed, Swiftly identified low-relevant tags, enabling prioritized filtration for enhanced efficiency.
- Value Champion - Ownership, Led the closure of Hive Nextdata and conducted in-house model comparison analysis, demonstrating a commitment to ownership and accountability.
- Value Champion - Power Player, Played a pivotal role in cost-saving efforts for tag filtering, achieving an outstanding 18% cost reduction.
- Value Champion - Ace of Initiative, Demonstrated initiative through the development and deployment of tools, automation, and queries for the MOJ misinformation project.
Publications
Simulation Study on the Seasonal Variation of Solar PV based Green Hydrogen Generation in Tropical Climatic Region in India
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0003701X2360090X
Training
- SQL Masterclass: SQL for Data Analytics (udemy)
- Lean Six Sigma AI Yellow Belt
Timeline
Product Analyst
Mohalla Tech Private Limited (ShareChat)
04.2024 - Current
Operation Associate
Mohalla Tech Private Limited (ShareChat)
10.2020 - 04.2022
M.Tech - Department of Renewable Energy Engineering
MAKAUT,WB(GOVT)
01.2020 - 01.2022
B.Tech - Department of Electrical Engineering
Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology
01.2017 - 01.2020
Diploma - Department of Electrical Engineering
Murshidabad Institute of Technology
01.2015 - 01.2017
Technical Writer & Custom ROM Develpoer
droidgyan.com (freelancing)
01.2014 - 01.2016
Senior Associate (Analytics)
Mohalla Tech Private Limited (ShareChat)
5 2022 - 04.2024