MANOJ KUMAR

+1(248) 854-8669
Manhojkummar@gmail.com ⋄ LinkedIn ⋄ Website ⋄ Github

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Accomplished Senior Data Scientist with over 6 years of experience in spearheading data-driven initiatives across
retail, finance, and aerospace industries. Expertise in leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI to
drive business transformation and revenue growth. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, deliver strategic
insights, and implement scalable data science solutions(MLOps). Adept at communicating complex concepts to
executive leadership and fostering a data-centric culture within organizations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages Python, SQL, R

Data Science Statistical Analysis and Modelling, Time Series & Forecasting Models
(Prophet, LSTM, ARIMA, SARIMA, and State Space Models),
Machine Learning(Boosting, Stacked Ensembles Trees), Deep Learning,
Model Interpretability (SHAP, LIME), Anomaly Detection, Advanced NLP
(Knowledge Graph, LLM fine-tuning, Prompting), A/B Testing,
Causal Inference Models, Hypothesis Testing, Bayesian Modelling
Cloud Platforms GCP, AWS, Azure
Data Processing Spark, Presto, Hive, DBT
Visualization & Reporting Tableau, Dash, RShiny, Looker
Other Tools Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, Keras, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, BERT,
LangChain, Airflow, GIT, Databricks, RAPIDS, Docker, Kubernetes,
Fast API, MongoDB, Rasa NLU

EXPERIENCE
Manager 2 - Advanced Analytics & Data Science Oct 2022 - Current
Walmart Marketplace San Francisco, CA, USA
• Leveraged Machine Learning to identify and acquire high-potential sellers and items, which helped
Marketplace to acquire the right sellers/items. Architected an hybrid approach of supervised (Gradient Boosting
for ranking optimisation) and un-supervised learning(K-Means for Clustering).
• Developed Propensity Models for Walmart Fulfillment Services for new sellers onboarding to Market-
place, enabling targeted outreach and tailored recommendations that increased adoption and in-turn provided
GMV lift to reach annual goals.
• Architected an Item Matching pipeline to match items In-demand with our competitors. This helps to
acquire trending items not on our platform and also price the items efficiently.
• Provided strategic analytical insights to leadership for informed decision-making and business reviews.
Played a key role in setting organization-wide goals and targets for the Marketplace and delivering critical
insights for Quarterly Earnings Report.
Data Science Associate Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Community Choice Credit Union Michigan, USA
• Developed a fraud detection AI/ML model(SOM based Clustering and One-Class Boosted Trees) which
segmented customers based on behavioral spending patters and alerted anomalies which helped the fraud team
to be proactive. A one-time based validation showed about 88% accuracy and developed a ML monitoring tool
for data/model drift.
• Engineered a Location Analytics Model, integrating diverse datasets to enhance customer acquisition strategies,
resulting in a 3% increase in new members.
Data Scientist Oct 2019 - May 2021
Walmart Labs Bengaluru, India
• Designed and implemented a Markdown Optimizer using Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning
for capturing Price Elasticity and Forecasting to predict weekly demand of 60 million SKUs across countries.
• Researched, experimented, and constructed time series models to best capture patterns for intermittent time
series and cluster similar time series using global features such as wavelet transforms, item features, pricing etc.
• Improved forecasting performance by 27% (sMAPE) on an average across countries and reduced com-
putational time by 70% by using distributed computation i.e UDFs on Spark.
• Constructed and streamlined end-to-end data pipelines with integrated MLOps principles utilizing
Data/Model Governance, Code/Data/Model Versioning using open source tools.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders for capturing product requirements, sketched product roadmaps, un-
derstood market-specific nuances and helped adopt the product in 5 countries with an adoption rate of
60-70% replacing a third-party product which resulted in saving about $30 million in markdown
sales.
• Designed and implemented an automated social media tool to address COVID related concerns in Walmart
stores for platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Was utilised the Media team to address these concerns in the
Canada Market.
Data Scientist Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Network International LLC Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Developed a churn prediction model, prioritizing churn risks and enabling a 30% reduction in customer
attrition through data-driven insights.
Data Scientist Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Rolls-Royce PLC Bengaluru, India
• Part of 12 member Data War Room in the Derby-United Kingdom, consisted of the best Data Scientists
and Data Engineers across the company. The war room got recognition for its capabilities and achievements in
providing data-driven decisions to solve business-critical problems.
• Presented analysis and reports to the CEO and collaborated with engineers for in-depth analysis. These
analyses were in turn given as recommendations to various airliners to reduce exposure to critical conditions.
Data Scientist Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
INSOFE Bengaluru, India
• Consulted for clients in the automobile, manufacturing and telecom industry in utilizing machine
learning and statistics in solving business problems like causal inference, market segmentation, churn modelling,
text classification etc.

EDUCATION
M.B.A in Technology and Data Science, Walsh College, Michigan Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
M.Sc in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
(Distance Learning, delayed due to Thesis) 2020 - Mar 2022
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, B.M.S Institute of Technology, India Sep 2012 - Sep 2016

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Leadership and Mentorship: Successfully trained and mentored over 120 professionals in data science, and
conducted high-impact AI adoption workshops for corporate leaders.
• Strategic Impact: Played a pivotal role in Rolls-Royce’s ”Data War Room,” utilizing advanced ML/AI tech-
niques to resolve critical business challenges.