Neethu Indu Govindan

Director of Data Science at Granite Robotics · Recommendation systems · embeddings, Python

Granite Robotics

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

English, Hindi, Kannada

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Currently at Granite Robotics, where I lead recommendation systems with a team of 10. Replaced 34 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker. Before that: Philips and Paytm. Most at home with ranking and recommender systems.

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embeddingsmodel governancePythonSparkrankingrecommender systems

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Looking for an analytics engineer who has worked on model governance at scale

Role: Analytics engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: On-site
Compensation: ₹18-70 LPA
Team: Recommendations, 13 people
Start: As soon as possible
Must have: Production experience with ranking Production experience with embeddings Good judgment about what not to build
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹29-86 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bengaluru, Indiapythonsparkranking

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Office hours for analysts moving into data science: recommendation systems and model governance

Topics: recommendation systems, recommender systems, ranking
Format: Calls
Terms: Paid
Capacity: One advisory role at a time
Best for: First-time founders

12 years of recommendation systems. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Bengaluru, Indiapythonmodel governancespark

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Experience

Director of Data Science
Sep 2024 - Present
Granite Robotics · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Built the recommendations models now used in 12 product decisions a quarter.
- Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 7.2%.
- Taught SQL to 46 non-analysts.
Senior Data Scientist
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Philips · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Replaced 75 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Taught SQL to 146 non-analysts.
Senior Data Scientist
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Paytm · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 2.7%.
- Taught SQL to 87 non-analysts.
Data Scientist
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
KPMG · 3 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
Data Analyst
Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
Accenture · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

SRM Institute of Science and Technology
B.Tech, Operations Research
2010 - 2014

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