Headline

Data Scientist

About

At IDFC FIRST Bank, my focus is on harnessing digital analytics to empower strategic decisions, leveraging my expertise in data science and journey analytics. My tenure as a Manager-Data Scientist at HDFC Bank honed my ability to distill complex data into actionable insights, a skill I now apply to drive innovation and performance in the banking sector. With the use of tools like Pandas, PySpark, NumPy, scikit-learn, SQL and Plotly, I contribute to a culture of data-driven decision-making. My role is integral to understanding customer patterns, enhancing our digital platforms, and ensuring a seamless customer experience. I have built multiple predictive models, scorecards, propensity models and have experience in working with NLP, LLMs, RAGs, LLaMaIndex and Langchain for chatbots via ChatGPT API.

Location

Thane

AI stack

codex

Work experience

Analytics Head at Edme Insurance Brokers, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Manager - Digital Analytics at IDFC FIRST Bank, Jul 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, India

Manager-Data Scientist at HDFC Bank, Jan 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Assistant Manager - Consumer Insights at Croma, Feb 2021 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Assistant Manager at Raymond Limited, Sep 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr, Mumbai Area, India, - Working with strategy team to understand the impact of COVID-19 on store employees and its effect on consumer behavior to formulate recommendations for store reopening - Analyzing online reviews to get consumer insights and formulating recommendations for improving in-store experience - Worked on product and marketing led research projects for Raymond, Park Avenue and ColorPlus. Projects included product testing and meeting consumer on regular basis to understand experiences and changing behaviors of consumers, brand track reports, wardrobe audits and mystery audits. - Handling the consumer connect program & organizing consumer sensitization workshops for all Raymond brands. - Creating fortnightly newsletters on market trends and consumer insights for Raymond Lifestyle team.

Research Specialist at MavenMagnet AI, Jan 2017 - Mar 2019 · 2 y 2 mo, Rese

Education

MBA, Marketing, PGDM(Autonomous)S.I.E.S College of Management

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and telecommunications, Shivajirao S. Jondhle College of Engineering

Public links

github: https://github.com/sandeshpatkar