Raj Nikhil Reddy

Overview

I lead fraud detection at Arbor Bio in Dallas. Caught $9 million of fraud in the first year of the new models. Before that: Bain & Company and Starbucks. Most at home with graph analytics and LightGBM. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Head of Data

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Arbor Bio · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Built the trust & safety models now used in 12 product decisions a quarter.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
   • Replaced 63 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
2. Data Analyst

   Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
   Bain & Company · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Taught SQL to 170 non-analysts.
3. Data Scientist

   Nov 2016 - Jun 2019
   Starbucks · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Cut false positives on payment blocks by 50%.
4. Data Scientist

   May 2014 - Nov 2016
   McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Replaced 87 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
5. Data Scientist

   Oct 2012 - May 2014
   Twilio · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
   • Replaced 118 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

1. Carnegie Mellon University

   BS, Mathematics
   2004 - 2008