Neha Tara Menon

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Senior Data Scientist at Lazada · evaluation, PyTorch

Lazada
Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
8+ years experience
Singapore Management University
English, Spanish
Advising
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Overview

Currently at Lazada, where I work on NLP. Replaced 89 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Before that: Petronas and Shopee. Most at home with information retrieval and Python. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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Skills
PyTorchPythoninformation retrievaltransformersevaluation
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closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: NLP and evaluation

Topics
NLP, transformers, Python
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Terms
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Capacity
A few async reviews a month
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First-time founders

8 years of NLP. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Melbourne, Australia · remote OKinformation retrievalpytorchevaluation
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Experience

  1. Senior Data Scientist
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Lazada · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Replaced 95 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Built the language models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter.
  2. Data Analyst
    Nov 2021 - Apr 2025
    Petronas · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Taught SQL to 197 non-analysts.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  3. Data Analyst
    Oct 2018 - Nov 2021
    Shopee · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Replaced 40 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. Singapore Management University
    BBM, Economics
    2013 - 2017

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