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DHRUV SETHI

@dhruvsethi1998

Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruv-sethi-2016/

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Dhruv Sethi is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen with a strong background in building large-scale machine learning pipelines and data products. He has extensive experience in MLOps, predictive modeling, and NLP, having previously driven significant revenue growth at MiQ. Dhruv holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication and a PG certification in Computational Data Science from IISc. His technical expertise spans Apache Airflow, PySpark, MLflow, and various machine learning frameworks including LightGBM and XGBoost.

Experience

Senior Data Scientist

Nielsen

•Apr 2025 - Present

Co-develop CTV viewer assignment pipeline (2B+ daily records, Apache Airflow orchestrated); LightGBM multiclass (121 classes) predicts which household member watched each ad impression. Own end-to-end production support with on-call debugging; resolved 2 critical incidents via root cause analysis. Implemented CI/CD workflow in GitLab with automated testing. Designed MLflow governance framework with artifact versioning and 3-stage rollback.

Data Scientist

MiQ

•Jun 2023 - Apr 2025

Drove stakeholder collaborations to deliver end-to-end data product pipelines, generating ~$3M+ revenue growth. Deployed XGBoost models for insurance tier prediction. Engineered MLOps pipelines processing 10M+ rows/week using Azure Databricks and PySpark. Co-developed multi-layer ML systems for cookieless targeting. Developed healthcare targeting frameworks using LLMs, BERT embeddings, and CatBoost.

Business Analyst

MiQ

•Sep 2021 - Jun 2023

Supported $300K+ in bookings by delivering custom analytic insights using SQL, PySpark, Python, and Tableau. Collaborated with data scientists on automated bidding strategies across 14 countries. Built 4 competitor density dashboards in Tableau, reducing team effort by 70%.

Education

IISc

PG Level Advanced Certification Programme

Computational Data Science

Apr 2024 - Mar 2025

SRMIST

B. Tech

Electronics and Communication

May 2016 - May 2020

Skills

Data Science
Machine Learning
LightGBM
Apache Airflow
CI/CD
GitLab
MLflow
Tableau
XGBoost
MLOps
Azure Databricks
PySpark
SparkXGBoost
NLP
LLM
BERT
CatBoost
SQL
Python
A/B testing
FAISS
SQLite