Nikhil Shenai Email & Phone Number

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Generating insights and developing analytical solutions for improving earner and spender safety in the South Asia marketplace.Summary of Key Projects/Workstreams:Spender and earner incident reduction initiatives* Developing a map-based algorithm to identify geofences in Delhi NCR to investigate linkages between specific locations and gender-oriented safety threats* Developing a model to profile spender behaviour proactively flag high-risk spenders and prevent physical threats on earners* Working on a study to assess if there exists a cohort of earners whose marketplace behaviour is allegedly predatory. Forecasting and reporting* Maintaining and improving multiple safety-metrics dashboards aiding insights generation on incident reduction and related influencing factors* Forecasting driver signup volumes using fbProphet to assist Earner Onboarding/Screening teams have sufficient resource capacity and reduce turnaround time.Cross-team collaboration and advisory* Working in conjunction with the Japan earner teams to assist their document fraud detection and metadata retrieval process through automated OCR

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building and deploying self-serve analytics solutions at a cross-client/sectoral scope which resulted in saving $250K/year in revenue and 4000+ hours in manual effort.Key Deliverables:Automated analytical insights & reporting* Created a self-serve distributed-computing algorithm to report SKU to category-level promotion changes across the Singapore retail landscape* Developed a Python-based library for reporting key KPI trends across sectors with customisable geographic/industrial granularity, data visualization rendering and rule-based analytical commentaryWeb applications* Created a Google Apps Script/HTML-based CRUD+search application on company intranet to enable easier cross-team access to whitepapers/analyses* Used MS PowerApps to build an interactive web repository that consolidated all leadership assetsProject management* Managed data pipeline compliance, debugging and code enhancement for a global Covid-19 internal impact study, measuring effectiveness of alternative data-collection methodologies and forecasting BAU turnaround on R and Google DataStudio* Set up a cloud-based bot to automate change-management communication for internal universe database updates across 30+ countries for cosmetics, tobacco and pharmaceutical client operations * Built a cloud-based project tracking dashboard for V-/D-level leadership

Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Analysing accuracy of forecasted market coverage, retail volumes, revenue and distribution trends for clients across multiple geographies and industries at category/brand-level granularity. Key Deliverables:Automated ETL and reporting* Set up Selenium-driven data crawlers to mine internal directories for automating stakeholder communications * Deployed a modular Python algorithm to combine web-scraping, text summarisation and deck rendering for the communicating Product enhancement changes to regional leadership * Built an algorithm for store location accuracy and identifying store population gaps across geographies using Python & Google Maps NLP and text analytics* Piloted a rapid resume summarisation algorithm with HR by blending a pre-trained entity-recognition model with text summarisation and semantic string-match scoring* Built a sentiment-based keyword extraction algorithm for identifying stakeholder feedback on process deliverables

Bangalore

Handled client communication, external data management and business/data QA as part of a team analysing key win/loss combinations using supervised Classification models for BFSI & IT clients

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Embedded with the Practice team and a part of the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) project.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Statistics

Activities and Societies: NUS ToastmastersSome of the subject areas studied: Bayesian Statistics, Data Mining, Statistical Analysis.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Economics, Mathematics, And Statistics, Distinction

Activities and Societies: The Economics Forum, META, Josephite AIDS Awareness MovementAt St. Joseph's I majored in Economics, Mathematics.

Cie A-Levels, Economics, Business Studies, Mathematics, Art & Design, Merit

Activities and Societies: Editorial Board (Layout Editor + Official Photographer), Student Council Advisory Committee, Documentary Club.