Ankit Das Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, US

• Feed Sharing Team --
• Developed a new metric and convinced multiple teams to use it as the primary goal metric by quantifying how posts that are more eye-catching receive more comments and socializing findings with key decision makers plus.
• Drove the launch of the team’s biggest feature to date – new photo layouts – by diagnosing A/B test metric regressions, uncovering incremental design opportunities, and highlighting ecosystem benefits to successfully.
• Influenced product direction across the Feed & Stories org by showing which surface resurrected sharers chose to use
• Shaped a complete redesign of how people create Feed posts by analyzing user behavior within the composition flow
• Found & fixed client logging issues by creating new logging schema and collaborating with engineers for implementation

• Goodwill Team, Promoted After 2019 Q2 --
• Saved a product from getting killed due to declining user retention by 1) coordinating a task force to generate hypotheses, 2) using domain knowledge to eliminate potential culprits like survivorship bias and.
• Unblocked a heavily-scrutinized product launch by 1) designing a plan for measuring user behavior and sentiment, 2) achieving cross-org buy-in for the plan despite conflicting guidance from leadership and technical.
• Validated a vague C-Suite idea that led to the creation of a new team by 1) devising an analysis plan and launch criteria, 2) aligning 4 teams despite joining the project late, and 3) creating workarounds for.
• Drove product strategy by designing A/B tests, diagnosing issues like test group imbalance, and presenting results
• Enabled the team to run 50% more tests and reduced false positives by defining and optimizing a batch testing process

• Dynamic Ads Team, 12 Week Internship --
• Drove the creation of a new ad type & enhanced advertiser insights by 1) quantifying the relationship between inventory usage and advertiser revenue, 2) defining 3 metrics to track advertiser efficacy, 3) building a.
• Saved $2M/year in storage costs and aligned advertisers’ intentions with backend logic by impact sizing 1) purchasers that incorrectly remained in audiences, and 2) cross-selling to existing customers

Boston, MA, US

• 8 week internship with the operations consulting firm acquired by McKinsey & Company --
• Helped win a client RFP by 1) building a predictive model to customize healthcare benefit plans, 2) reducing the model’s runtime by 1.8x, and 3) constructing data visualizations for the final pitch
• Automated product categorization for a retail chain by building a deterministic decision tree (94% weighted accuracy)

Singapore, Toronto, Manila, SG

• 8 week internship with the inventory management company acquired by Intuit --
• Measured key metrics across several industries to convince executives to adopt a vertical marketing strategy
• Ran multiple regression on usage statistics to calculate client lifetime value and drive sales to high value clients
• Performed A/B testing on new product features to evaluate their effectiveness and guide product development
• Forecasted revenues using customer payment data to propose a new pricing model

Atlanta, GA, US

• 6 week internship with the American multinational --
• Analyzed time-series sales data to pinpoint declines in earnings and suggest methods to increase revenue
• Pitched teenager recruitment deck after market visits and market segmentation research
• Proposed and implemented a Value Recognition Program to increase employee satisfaction and productivity

Bse, Networked And Social Systems

High School Diploma