
Surabhi Trivedi
@surabhitrivedi
Data Scientist at Block and fastwheel.ai who cut fraud losses 60% and built a production RAG evaluation system.
What I'm looking for
At Block, I built the Good Merchant Gone Bad fraud-risk portfolio from the ground up, using real-time heuristics and staged experiments to reduce average monthly losses from about $1.5M to about $600K. I also developed an XGBoost model whose risk signals fed the portfolio’s heuristics.
At fastwheel.ai, I designed and built an evaluation harness for a bilingual production RAG assistant, with a golden test suite gating every deployment in CI. I implemented LLM-as-judge scoring and retrieval-quality measurement to help identify where system failures occur.
At J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke Law School, I developed document-classification and entity-extraction systems that reduced client work-hours and manual effort. I’m open to Data Science opportunities in India.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Freelance AI Engineer
Fastwheel.ai
Jul 2026 - Present (3 months)
Designed and built an evaluation harness for a bilingual production RAG assistant, including a 59-item golden test suite and LLM-as-judge scoring pipeline. Implemented retrieval-quality metrics and agentic adversarial-probe evaluation loops to surface novel failure modes.
Owned the Good Merchant Gone Bad fraud-risk portfolio end-to-end, managing ~$1.5M in average monthly losses across ~200M daily transactions. Reduced monthly losses to ~$600K and improved chargeback/loss recall by ~15% through real-time heuristics, experimentation, and ML models.
Data Scientist
J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke Law School
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year 3 months)
Developed a text-classification system using GPT-3.5 to classify IRS documents, achieving 87.5% recall and reducing client work-hours by over 80%. Built a custom spaCy NER model and a CNN-LSTM image-captioning system for law-library photos.
Led a cross-functional team developing a credit-scoring model for a personal-loan portfolio with 500K+ annual applications, supporting 5x portfolio book growth while reducing default rates by 41%. Designed segmentation, propensity, and pricing models for installment-loans portfolios, contributing an estimated €0.8M annual impact.
Built an ML pipeline for the Chilean Department of Labor to predict high-risk facilities and optimize inspector allocation, increasing violation detection from 36% to 68% and helping protect approximately 9,800 workers.
Analyst
Delhivery
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 8 months)
Developed predictive regression models to forecast load, optimize manpower allocation, and reduce turnaround time.
Education
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Duke University
Master of Science, Data Science
2021 - 2023
Pursued a Master of Science in Data Science, focusing on applied machine learning and data-driven decision making.
Ashoka University
Postgraduate Diploma, Liberal Studies
2017 - 2018
Completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Liberal Studies through the Young India Fellowship, emphasizing interdisciplinary learning and leadership.
Thapar University
Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology
2011 - 2015
Earned a Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology, gaining a strong foundation in scientific principles and analytical skills.
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