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Lead Data Scientist/Data Analyst
Lead Data Scientist/Data Analyst with a strong math background and 5+ years of experience in analytics, building business-oriented machine learning models, dashboards, and research. Can extract value from data and establish effective communications with the business. Experience in telecommunications, online/offline retail and related industries.
- Telegram: @RAVasiliev
- City: Moscow, Russia
- Degree: Master
- Email: r.a.vasiliev1998@gmail.com
Facts
Years in Data Science industry
Hours of courses conducted
Courses created and delivered at top Russian universities
Years of experience in leading teams
Resume
Professional Experience
Head of analytical tools development team
July 2022 - now
Yandex.Lavka, one of the largest e-grocery platform in Russia
- Formed team of 4 DS and 3 DA
- Created CDT-centred categorical review process, based . As a result, ~50 new SKUs per month in category matrix, ~70% of them are moving to main category matrix
- Developed new metrics (such as space efficiency, repeat rate, retention, etc.) and dashboards based on them for category managers
- Organized and calculated AB tests on stores and user levels
- Lead BI-reporting of commercial analytics (autoorder, pricing, assortment) at the company level
- Organized product matching process: developed auto-matching model (using NLP approaches)
Lead Data Scientist
July 2021 - July 2022
Magnit, the largest retail company in Russia
- Created team of 3 DS, 4 BA and 2 DE
- Managed team backlog, organized developing process and ad-hocs process
- Implemented culture of using CDT. Developed approach to CDT creation and assortment optimiztion process based on it
- Developed user-based metrics and integrated it to internal assortment optimization system and BI system
- Demand forecast model for assortment optimization
Senior Data Scientist
December 2020 - July 2021
Magnit, the largest retail company in Russia
- Worked on the development of a tool for evaluating the effectiveness of past promos • with expected value more than 1 billion rubles.
- Developed several modules: Losses, Markdown, Pull Forward, Footfall.
- Worked on developing a demand forecast model to evaluate promo.
- Worked with BCG consultans and category managers on creating promo recommendations for Fresh categories.
Data Scientist
December 2018 - December 2020
MegaFon, the largest telecommunication company in Russia
- Telecom credit products improvement project
Created process of using ML models in credit project with more than 3 million users: developed default model and tariff policy strategy based on it - Anti-Downsell project
Created segmentation and several approaches to detect downsell in customer groups - Customer data upgrading project
Created ML-models oriented on receiving extra customer properties - gender, age, psychotype on more than 70 million customer base - Managed the interns group
Led the interns groups up to 8 members, supervised their projects, organized the courses of using Big-Data tools in industry (SQL, HIVE, Spark, etc)
Education
Master's degree
2020 - 2022
Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
Scientific interests: graphs analysis and representation learning
Bachelor's degree
2016 - 2020
Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Department of Mathematical Statistics
Thesis: Representation learning on large graphs in telecommunication via deep learning methods
Additional Education
- Changellenge Winter School (top-1 of participants)
February 2020 - Course “Practical Machine learning”, “Practical Big Data” by BIGDATA TEAM
2019 - Deep Learning School by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2019
Speeches
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Contact
Email:
r.a.vasiliev1998@gmail.com
Telegram:
@RAVasiliev