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Sarthak MaheshwariSM
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Sarthak Maheshwari

@sarthakmaheshwari1

Senior data scientist building interpretable credit risk and collections models for banking decisions.

Zimbabwe
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I’ve built credit risk and predictive modeling systems at Kotak Mahindra Bank, including a dual-model credit card framework with short- and long-term risk signals, 8,400+ engineered features, and regulatory-aligned interpretability using IV and SHAP. I’ve taken models into PA/PQ decisioning workflows so LT/ST scores jointly inform approval/decline, swap-in/swap-out decisions, and dynamic line-of-credit capping.

Before that, at Kinara Capital I developed payment reminder and bounce collection models with XGBoost and Optuna, plus daily sales prediction using AWS Glue automation and business-facing visualization. Earlier, at Standard Chartered GBS, I worked on credit card default rate prediction with attribute engineering and hyperparameter tuning to improve ROC-AUC, and I’ve also built data tooling like a Java-based sync solution and an MVP dashboard workflow.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Kotak Mahindra Bank logoKB
Current

Associate Vice President, Data Science

Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Architected dual-model risk framework for credit card base, engineered 8400+ features, and achieved ~10% uplift in LT model and ~8% in ST model on Gini. Also engineered first-gen long horizon credit risk model for personal loan base, catalyzing ~48% surge in PA offer volume and ~14% growth in ATS.

US

Software Engineer Intern

United Health Care - Optum Global Solutions

May 2019 - Jul 2019 (2 months)

Built a Java-based bi-directional data sync solution across MySQL with multi-threading to minimize latency; automated scheduling via JSP/HTML portal.

IA

Data Science Intern

Impact Analytics

May 2018 - Jul 2018 (2 months)

Scraped and analyzed 20K+ reviews using Scrapy and NLP sentiment analysis; insights drove a 20% conversion rate increase for an e-commerce client.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee logoIR

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology, Engineering

2016 - 2020

Grade: 8.29/10

Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Roorkee with a CGPA of 8.29/10.

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