Mustafa Syed

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Head of Data at Tidal Care · Experimentation · Python, CUPED

Tidal Care
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
NIT Warangal
English, Hindi, Marathi
Co-founder
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Overview

I lead experimentation at Tidal Care in Mumbai. Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 4 weeks to 6 days. Before that: Flipkart and Oracle. Most at home with causal inference and Python. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
causal inferencePythonSQLCUPEDBayesian statisticsinformation retrieval
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need an operations co-founder: home healthcare staffing in India

The idea
Need an operations co-founder: home healthcare staffing in India
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
12 years in experimentation
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Mumbai or remote

I bring 12 years of experimentation (currently Tidal Care). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Mumbai, Indiacausal inferencesqlpython
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Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Tidal Care · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 4 weeks to 5 days.
    • Taught SQL to 150 non-analysts.
  2. Data Scientist
    Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
    Flipkart · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Replaced 68 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 4 weeks to 5 days.
  3. Senior Data Scientist
    Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
    Oracle · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Ran 134 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
  4. Data Analyst
    Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
    EY · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Ran 68 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
  5. Data Analyst
    Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
    MakeMyTrip · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Ran 176 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.

Projects

Experimentation benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing causal inference and Python on real workloads.

Side project: a commute planner
2026

Built with CUPED and information retrieval. 103 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. NIT Warangal
    B.Tech, Operations Research
    2009 - 2013

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