Siddhant Mohapatra
Bangalore
Summary
Strategy-driven data science and product professional with more than 10 years of experience across multiple domains, seeking to leverage proven leadership and technical skills in solving business problems through data and thus making sure that we are able to measure the impact of different initiatives on the top-line and bottom-line for effective decision making.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Product Manager: AI
Jumio
06.2024 - Current
- Biometric Authentication – Face recognition, Liveness Detection, deepfake detection
- Aligning AI innovation with business needs and customer pain points
- Collaborated with engineering and design teams to deliver features on time and within scope.
- Fraud Prevention & Risk Management – Detecting synthetic identities, image manipulations, and spoofing attacks
- Championed the transition from a third-party biometric solution to an in-house AI-driven biometric system, improving accuracy and performance
Product Manager: Data Science
ZEE5
02.2022 - 03.2024
- Partner with the Senior Leadership to create and review work designed to inform critical business decisions & provide complex analytical insights on executive dashboards.
- Brainstorming on various product features, improving product designs, defining the product roadmap and strategies & responsible for building in-house data product
- Leading a 6 member team and mentoring them as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for customer segmentation, AVOD Churn, Search & Personalization.
- Responsible for owning product releases from ideation till Go Live.
- Responsible for creating data pipelines & orchestrating e2e data flow
Manager: Data Science
Blackstraw.AI
11.2020 - 02.2022
- Algorithm Used: Classification & Regression, Random Forest, XG-Boost
- Build from scratch and deploy a custom analytics-based solution that integrates all other tools, and meets external customer requirements and commitments.
- Led a 12-member team and implemented product development using predictive analytics & AI/ML, overseeing the entire product pipeline to solve problems in the areas of Work Force Management (WFM).
Senior Data Scientist, Product Owner
Servion Global Solutions
03.2018 - 02.2020
- Algorithm Used: Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XG-Boost, SVM
- Created in-house AutoML tool and drove offshore team integration.
- Orchestrated the entire product transformation from ideation to deployment.
Data Scientist
eBay Inc.
07.2017 - 03.2018
- Tech Stack: SQL Server, MS-Excel, Tableau
- Algorithm Used: Clustering, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees & Random Forest, Boosting
Data Scientist
Emplay Analytics
11.2014 - 07.2017
- Algorithm Used: Supervised & Unsupervised Learning
- Description: Built a recommendation engine alongside a Random Forest model
Education
Product & Brand Management -
IIM Rohtak
01.2023
PG Diploma - Data Science
IIIT Bangalore
01.2019
PG Diploma - Management
IBS
01.2014
B.Tech - E&TC
01.2012
Skills
- Product Strategy & Road Mapping
- Stakeholder & Executive Management
- Cross-Functional Leadership (Engineering, ML & Sales)
- SQL Server, Analytics & BI Tools, Machine Learning
- Stakeholder Management
- Customer-Centric Problem Solving
- Business Strategies & Critical Thinking
- Agile / Scrum Product Delivery
- Go-To-Market & Product Launch Execution
FREELANCING - WORK EXPERIENCE
- Mentor & Coach: Data Science
- BITS Pilani | UpGrad | Springboard
- Mentoring & coaching 150+ aspiring data scientists via personalized group coaching and guiding them through the interview process.
- Sharing use cases from projects across industries to gain an understanding of the easy application of data science techniques.
Timeline
Lead Product Manager: AI
Jumio
06.2024 - Current
Product Manager: Data Science
ZEE5
02.2022 - 03.2024
Manager: Data Science
Blackstraw.AI
11.2020 - 02.2022
Senior Data Scientist, Product Owner
Servion Global Solutions
03.2018 - 02.2020
Data Scientist
eBay Inc.
07.2017 - 03.2018
Data Scientist
Emplay Analytics
11.2014 - 07.2017
PG Diploma - Data Science
IIIT Bangalore
PG Diploma - Management
IBS
B.Tech - E&TC
Product & Brand Management -
IIM Rohtak