Rizwan Ehsan Farooqui

Overview

Currently at Slate Pay, where I lead recommendation systems with a team of 24. Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 4.8%. Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker. Gardening and composting evangelist.

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Experience

1. Director of Data Science

   Mar 2026 - Present
   Slate Pay · 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Replaced 38 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
   • Taught SQL to 63 non-analysts.
2. Staff Data Scientist

   Aug 2022 - Mar 2026
   Persistent Systems · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
3. Staff Data Scientist

   Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
   Bajaj Finserv · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Replaced 85 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
4. Senior Data Scientist

   Jan 2016 - Feb 2019
   Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Replaced 21 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
5. Data Scientist

   Dec 2012 - Dec 2015
   Deloitte · 3 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Taught SQL to 127 non-analysts.
   • Replaced 68 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

1. IIT Bombay IDC

   M.Des, Operations Research
   2010 - 2012
2. VIT Vellore

   B.Tech, Operations Research
   2006 - 2010