Vikas Garg

About Vikas Garg

Data Products & Analytics leader, with ~19 yrs. of experience in influencing Product & …

Experience

1. Manager Data Science & Analytics

   Amazon

   Aug 2019 — Present

   Lead a team of Data Scientists, BIEs and ML/Research Scientists that conducts product and solutions analytics, builds Statistical/ML models, big-data based KPI metrics and data visualization products to drive business strategy. • Develop the data-products roadmap; formulate goals; drive development & deployment of Data Science & ML products. • Facilitate cross-functional partnerships with Amazon wide Science & Analytics teams to drive efficiency & cost optimization projects. • Participate in recruitment of Analysts, Data Scientist and ML Scientists; function as Tech Assessor for Data Scientists’ promotions at Amazon. • **Key projects**:*Modeling*: ML model to drive operational cost savings; ML based scoring models to inform brand specific policies; Survey design and analysis (NLP based models) etc.*Experimentation*: A-B experiments to measure the impact of changing business policies on Amazon’s advertising revenue & overall business profitability;*Analytics & BI*: Product analytics support, development of KPIs, data visualization and analytical products in Tableau, AWS Quicksight etc. for business decision making; Productivity and automation initiatives spanning data pipelines, model workflows, tooling etc.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Master of Technology & Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering - (Infrastructure)

  2000 — 2005

• Cornell University

  Master of Engineering, Operations Research & Finance

  2008 — 2009

Skills

• Sas
• R
• Business Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Data Mining
• Ms Excel Pivot Tables
• Strategy
• Project Management
• Predictive Analytics
• Management Consulting
• Analysis
• Sql
• Unix
• Data Analysis
• Statistical Modeling
• Forecasting
• Analytics