Gayatri Sushma Vasudevan

Overview

I've spent 16 years on NLP - first at BigBasket, now at Drift Commerce. Replaced 37 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Built the language models now used in 6 product decisions a quarter. Before that: Siemens and Uber. Learning Japanese, slowly.

Answers in batches on Fridays

Experience

1. Head of Data

   May 2022 - Present
   Drift Commerce · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Replaced 52 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
   • Built the language models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter.
2. Data Scientist

   Nov 2019 - May 2022
   Siemens · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Replaced 28 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
3. Data Scientist

   Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
   Uber · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Taught SQL to 92 non-analysts.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
4. Senior Data Scientist

   Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
   Philips · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Built the language models now used in 5 product decisions a quarter.
   • Replaced 98 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
5. Data Analyst

   Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
   BigBasket · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Replaced 82 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

No references yet.

Education

1. NIT Warangal

   B.Tech, Economics
   2006 - 2010