Data Scientist · Senior · 10+ yrs
Meera Krishnamurthy
Head of Data Science / Principal Data Scientist
Professional summary
Data science leader with 12 years turning data into measurable P&L impact across fintech, retail and ride-hailing. Builds and leads data science teams (12–20), sets the experimentation and ML strategy, and translates statistics into board-level decisions. Owned model portfolios driving hundreds of crores in revenue and savings, established company-wide A/B testing standards, and mentors scientists into senior and staff roles.
S$140M
P&L influenced by models
600+
Experiments run per year
18
Data scientists led
Skills
Leadership
Experimentation
ML & methods
Platform
Work experience
Head of Data Science · Velora (regional fintech super-app)
Mar 2019 – PresentSingapore
- Lead an 18-person data science org across credit, fraud, growth and forecasting, owning a model portfolio that influences a P&L of ~S$140M annually.
- Set the ML and experimentation strategy and built the central A/B testing platform now running 600+ experiments/year, shifting the org from opinion-led to evidence-led launches.
- Drove a credit-underwriting model overhaul (Python, gradient boosting) that cut losses 22% while expanding approvals 14%, adding an estimated ₹180 crore in annual lending margin.
- Established the data strategy, feature store and model-governance review that took mean time-to-production for new models from 9 weeks to 3.
- Hired 13 scientists and grew 5 into senior/staff roles; partnered with the CFO and CPO to make statistics a standing input to quarterly planning.
Lead Data Scientist · Tamarind Retail Group
Jul 2015 – Feb 2019Bengaluru
- Led a team of 7 building demand forecasting and pricing models across 600 stores, lifting gross margin 3.1 points and cutting stockouts 28%.
- Introduced the company's first A/B testing discipline and Tableau executive dashboards, replacing intuition-based merchandising calls with measured experiments.
Data Scientist → Senior Data Scientist · Earlier roles — Mu Sigma, Flipkart
2013 – 2015India
- Built churn, segmentation and forecasting models in Python/R and SQL across analytics consulting and e-commerce; promoted twice for impact and mentoring.
Education
M.Stat (Master of Statistics)
2013Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, Kolkata
B.Sc. Mathematics & Statistics
2011St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
Certifications
Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer
Google Cloud · 2022
Deep Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI / Coursera · 2020
Selected achievements
Cut credit losses 22% while expanding approvals 14%, adding ~₹180 crore in annual lending margin.
Scaled experimentation from ad-hoc to 600+ A/B tests/year on a central platform adopted org-wide.
Keynote, DataHack Summit 2023 — "Experimentation as a default: building an evidence-led company."
Mentor with a women-in-data fellowship; advises 2 early-stage startups on data strategy and ML hiring.
See the work in 3D
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