Nithya Kutty

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Director of Data Science at Groww · Fraud detection · rules engines, Python

Groww
Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Guwahati
English, Hindi, Malayalam
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Overview

Director of Data Science at Groww, focused on fraud detection. Replaced 44 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Cut false positives on payment blocks by 20%. Before that: Nvidia and Ola. Most at home with SQL and Python. Plant-based cook and baker.

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  • Second opinions on SQL decisions
  • Working sessions on rules engines
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Skills
rules enginesanomaly detectionSQLPython
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Office hours for analysts moving into data science: fraud detection and SQL

Topics
fraud detection, anomaly detection, rules engines
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Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
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Engineers moving into leadership

12 years of fraud detection. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Kochi, Indiaanomaly detectionsqlpython
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Experience

  1. Director of Data Science
    May 2025 - Present
    Groww · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 61 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 118 non-analysts.
  2. Data Scientist
    Mar 2022 - May 2025
    Nvidia · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Replaced 84 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 182 non-analysts.
  3. Data Analyst
    Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
    Ola · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Cut false positives on payment blocks by 26%.
  4. Data Scientist
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
    Walmart Global Tech · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Replaced 73 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  5. Data Scientist
    Nov 2014 - Sep 2016
    Groww · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Taught SQL to 69 non-analysts.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2023

Built with SQL and Python. 3536 people used it last year.

Fraud detection benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing anomaly detection and rules engines on real workloads.

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Education

  1. IIT Guwahati
    B.Tech, Operations Research
    2010 - 2014

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