Tabassum Sumaiya Lakdawala

Senior Data Scientist at TCS | ex-Adobe

TCS

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

8+ years experience

IIT Delhi

English, Hindi, Marathi

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I work on NLP at TCS in Mumbai. Built the language models now used in 3 product decisions a quarter. Replaced 87 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Most at home with information retrieval and evaluation. Yoga every morning.

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Senior Data Scientist
May 2026 - Present
TCS · 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Taught SQL to 58 non-analysts.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
- Built the language models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter.
Data Scientist
Jun 2023 - May 2026
Adobe · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Replaced 65 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Data Scientist
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Replaced 74 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Analyst
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Mahindra Group · 1 yr 4 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
- Taught SQL to 34 non-analysts.
Data Analyst
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
PwC · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Taught SQL to 165 non-analysts.
- Replaced 109 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Write-up: NLP in practice

2022

A long-form guide to NLP for people starting out.

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Education

IIT Delhi
B.Tech, Physics
2012 - 2016

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