About

Utkarsh Agarwal is an experienced Data Scientist with over 7 years of relevant experience in the financial services industry. He is currently working as a Data Science Manager at DAMAC Properties, where he is responsible for leading the data science team and developing advanced analytics solutions. Utkarsh is a skilled Python and Matlab programmer, with expertise in Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. He has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prior to his current role, Utkarsh worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Protium, where he was a core team member of the Digital Lending Vertical. He engineered Default Prediction and Risk Scoring Models using advanced analytics and machine learning solutions in Python based on Boosting techniques. He also headed the Risk and Credit module for the Digital Business loan segment, which included data extraction from 3rd party vendors, designing of end to end data flow, APIs development, and data warehousing. Additionally, he implemented statistical and predictive techniques for analytics of several business divisions such as sales, marketing, and call center. He was even part of the End to End production of the models which included Dockerization of the module and daily deployments. Utkarsh has also worked as an Associate at MSCI Inc. Utkarsh has a strong technical background and is proficient in a range of technologies and tools including SQL, Random Forest, AWS, Sentiment Analysis, XGBoost, Web, Seaborn, Amazon Athena, Scikit, Docker, Pandas, MySQL, Kafka, and ETL. He is a research scientist and data scientist who has a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions to complex business problems.