OTOM Takalkar is a strategic and performance-driven Data Scientist with 5.5 years of experience. He specializes in leveraging data from diverse information systems to improve organizational decision-making. His expertise includes Predictive Analysis, Attribution Modelling, and building advanced AI/ML solutions using Python, SQL, and Tableau. He has a proven track record of leading end-to-end data strategies and providing actionable insights to business stakeholders.
Experience
Assistant Manager - Data Scientist
Michelin
Assignments Handled: Price Prediction (using Power BI, Python, Price elasticity); Understanding product performance (sentiment analysis, topic classification, cluster analysis, multilabel classification on customer feedback).
Digital Media Analyst
Zedo
Highlights: Worked on Debugging and troubleshooting the issues with campaign delivery and performance.
Solution Developer(Data Scientist)
Tata Technologies
Assignments Handled: Prescriptive Maintenance (identifying top variables using EDA); Review Analysis (process calls using NLP); Predictive Maintenance (Predicted RUL of a machine).
Associate Data Scientist
Idatum Researchers
Assignments Handled: Churn Rate/ Loan Prediction (Worked on ML-based model on customer lifestyle to reduce churn rate and predict loan eligibility).
Data Scientist
Systems Plus Transformation
Assignments Handled: Personalized Recommendation (Engineered an algorithm for recommending offers in real-time; Designed reports in Tableau); Marketing Analytics (Performed Customer analysis, RFM, CLV, Marketing Mix model on customer data).
Data Analyst
ThinkBigger Analytics
Highlights: Performed Sentiment analysis on extracted text related to specific words using Java.
Education
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune University
Masters in Computer Science
Computer Science
M.M.C.C, Pune University
Bachelors in Computer Science
Computer Science
Licenses & Certifications
PGP Certification program in Artificial Intelligence
IIT Roorkee
Marketing Analytics
DataCamp.com
Market Basket Analytics
DataCamp.com
Spoken Language Processing
DataCamp.com
Credit Risk Modelling
DataCamp.com