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Navya Tatikonda

Senior Data Scientist
Hyderabad

Summary

Experienced Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, causal inference, and NLP. Skilled in developing production-grade ML models, conducting statistically rigorous product experiments, and utilizing unsupervised learning for customer segmentation. Demonstrated success in driving user acquisition, fraud detection, and campaign optimization through ensemble models, embeddings, and advanced statistical techniques. Proficient in end-to-end ML workflows including data pipeline development, model monitoring (e.g., PSI), stakeholder alignment, and experimentation impact analysis.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data Scientist

PayPal
01.2022 - Current

Consumer Financial services

  • Designed and implemented causal experiments (incentive and non-incentive) to assess the impact on user behavior, leading to an 80% increase in engagement among inactive Add Cash users, and a 40% increase in the onboarding of new direct deposit users.
  • Applied unsupervised learning (e.g., K-Means, DBSCAN) on multi-product usage behavior to uncover customer segments, improving targeting precision, and campaign ROI.
  • Automated instrumentation tracking and validation checks using Python and SQL, reducing manual QA time by 80%, and enabling faster experimentation cycles.
  • Used statistical models to determine sample sizes, optimize audience stratification, and analyze treatment effects.
  • Built scalable data pipelines and event instrumentation to enable full-funnel user behavior tracking for consumer financial services products.
  • Led stakeholder alignment and translated complex experiment results into actionable insights for the product, engineering, and marketing teams.
  • Owned analytics for the entire Funds-In product suite, leveraging data science to identify opportunities for increasing customer fund inflows, and optimizing product adoption.
  • Partnered with engineering teams to define and

Senior Analyst

Latentview Analytics
08.2021 - 12.2021
  • Constructed a sophisticated NLP model that accurately predicts the underlying reasons for customer dissatisfaction with the support team by analyzing the discourse between customers and support agents.
  • This involved developing a multi-class, multi-label model that significantly reduced the manual effort required by a team of 300 analysts, resulting in a 35% increase in identifying multiple drivers of dissatisfaction and minimizing human errors and bias.
  • Utilized ML classification techniques to interpret NPS scores and provided recommendations to improve the product based on customer feedback, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, and increased revenue for the company.
  • Analyzed survey data to identify user segments for both members and trailers, providing insights and recommendations to improve the product offering, and increase customer satisfaction.
  • Conducted in-depth analysis, product performance analysis, NPS survey analytics, text mining, and sentiment analysis for a popular streaming network and a famous search engine, resulting in improved insights and decision-making capabilities for the team and stakeholders.
  • Employed EDA and feature engineering techniques to improve model performance, resulting in increased accuracy and better predictions of customer dissatisfaction with the support team.

Project Engineer

Wipro
10.2018 - 08.2021
  • Developed a model to forecast SLA breaches, enabling proactive resolution, and improving service quality.
  • Built NLP techniques to extract root causes from unstructured support ticket text, significantly reducing issue triage and resolution time.
  • Conducted a detailed analysis on O365 ticket patterns and designed a scalable self-serve digital community solution, reducing manual engineering effort by 90%. With all the detailed analysis, proposed and implemented a robust way of handling O365 tickets through a digital community, resulting in a 90% savings in the time engineers worked on tickets.

Education

B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

JNTU Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India
04.2001 -

Skills

    Python programming

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Activities

Led Facebook Developer Circles Hyderabad (6K+ developers); ran ML-focused community initiatives. Collaborated with MIT Media Labs and LVPEI Incubation center at Srujana center for Innovation.

Timeline

Senior Data Scientist

PayPal
01.2022 - Current

Senior Analyst

Latentview Analytics
08.2021 - 12.2021

Project Engineer

Wipro
10.2018 - 08.2021

B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

JNTU Hyderabad
04.2001 -
Navya TatikondaSenior Data Scientist