Abhinav Shandilya

abhinavshandilya244@gmail.com | +91 9916836660 | https://in.linkedin.com/in/abhinavshandilya

Education
IIT Delhi
Master of Science (Research) | Part Time, Dept of SeNSE

NIT Agartala
Bachelor of Technology | Electronics & Instrumentation

Summary
Abhinav is a full stack Data Scientist with 7+ years of experience across multiple domains (Mobility, Retail, Travel, Pharma/ Life Science). He is Proficient in
Python, SQL, machine learning/deep learning and has rich experience with entire Data Science product development lifecycle (ETL pipeline creation, EDA,
model development and deployment).
He works closely with stakeholders from multiple teams and has translated various business problems to a data science problem, developed ML/AI based
analytics framework for data driven decision making.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Applied Scientist II, Uber | Bangalore, India
Jul’21 – Present
Job Profile
❖ Handled end to end data science ownership for Uber car rentals
❖ Created and optimized detailed product funnel for rentals and including instrumentation, KPI definitions and dissemination
❖ Responsible for design and analysis of experiments to enable data driven decision making at Uber scale and marketplace complexities

Data Scientist, D Cube Analytics | Bangalore, India

May’20 – July’21
Job Profile
❖ Implemented and productionized a Deep Reinforcement learning based recommendation engine for 200K HCPs located across 40 different US
cities leading to improvement in engagement rate by 8%
❖ Identified opportunities to scale existing projects, develop new data science/engineering solutions for the client. Was also responsible for engaging
with clients to identify opportunities to institutionalize analytics across the organization.

Data Scientist, RateGain | Noida, UP, India

Mar’18 – May’20
Job Profile
❖ Successfully created a price recommendation engine for a leading car rental company. Created & automated ETL pipeline for client’s
transactional/fleet data, developed a demand-forecasting model and integrated that with rule engine. The price recommendation had ~ 98%
acceptance rate which increased the average daily rate by 4%
❖ Led a team of four for developing a deep-learning based anomaly detection model for automating the quality checking process of web scrapping
reports for a leading travel company. This led to 5% increase in report acceptance rate & saved 300 man hours/month

Senior Analyst, Cartesian Consulting | Bangalore, India

Nov’15 – Mar’18
Job Profile
❖ Designed various KPIs to analyze the discount sensitivity of various customer segments. Calculated the CLTV of over 1.2 million customers
enrolled through various offers. This was leveraged by the brand to tweak their offers/campaigns and fine-tune their discount model
❖ Successfully delivered a product recommendation engine for 400 odd retail stores pan India which led to 11% increase in average basket size
and improved customer’s NPS score by 5%
❖ Developed a framework using customer’s demographics, sales parameter, store’s attributes to predict the potential of selling high end
merchandise in different stores
❖ Developed a model for clustering retail stores using demographic, sales and store’s data and leveraged that for tweaking the merchandise
allocation and launching various marketing campaigns which reduced the demand loss by ~ 15% and led to additional 115K USD revenue

Decision Scientist, Mu Sigma| Bangalore, India

Sep’14 – Oct’15
Job Profile
❖ Leveraged SQL and R to implement a regression model to predict the claim amount in case of automobile accident for ~ 2 million subscribers of
a leading insurance firm based in Australia

Technical Skills
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Modelling, Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Statistics, A/B
Testing, NLP
Tools
Python, TensorFlow, Keras, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, Git, Bash Scripting, Docker, PySpark, Tableau, Google Data studio

Publication and Awards

❖ Variable tariff energy meter with automatic power flow control
❖ Reducing effect of ambient light source in Visual Light Communication (VLC) system.
❖ Spot award ‘Leading by Example’ for one of the key projects in Q3 2020-21
❖ Peer to Peer award ‘Leading by Example’ for one of the key projects in Q3 2020-21
❖ Spot award ‘Leading by Example’ for one of the key projects in Q3, 2018-19
❖ Got the award for project with best insight for two consecutive years (FY 2015-16 & 2016-17)