ILJA DEIFTS

ADDRESS: FLAT 10, NATWEST HOUSE, 225 SHENLEY RD, BOREHAMWOOD, UK

PHONE +44 7436 926467, E-MAIL ILJA.DEIFTS@MAIL.COM

WORK EXPERIENCE

July 2018 – Current Product Madness, UK Data Science

 In this role I provide analytics and insight on the Product Madness social games network, and the high-level
product interactions with respect to our users.
 It is my responsibility to provide the analytical support to User Acquisition department, including creation
of in-house UA fraud detection tool, User Acquisition LTV prediction tool, and etc.
April 2018 – June 2018 Intuita Consulting, UK Consulting Data Analyst
 In this role I have provided insight analysis to various third part companies in retail, telecommunications and
etc.
 I have also engaged in different processes aimed at the support, improvement and streamlining of the current
reporting/database infrastructure -- designing SQL for the Data Warehouse, building data quality check and
automation tools, developing AWS data import and Quality Assurance process, etc.
April 2016 – April 2018 Ocado, UK Planning Analyst
 In this role I am responsible for physical asset availability, as well as physical asset demand prediction and
control.
 Engaged in multiple projects to improve or redesign various monitoring and predictive tools that require
careful investigation of the problem and application of mathematically rigorous techniques to real-life
complex – and sensitive - situations, such as Christmas Demand prediction, Weekly and Daily Basket Size
prediction etc.
 Have developed and maintained several toolsets for various instruments (R, VBA, Tableau, GoogleSheets
API etc) to improve the efficiency of the department via code reuse and standardization.
 Provided additional training and workshops to both the new starters and my coworkers in use of the more
advanced statistical techniques, best coding practices and the finer points of the R programming language.
2014 - 2016 SIA Dominante, Latvia IT Department Manager/CTO of SIA “NUKO”
 Took charge of e-groceries store improving both front-end and back-end IT infrastructure as well as logistics,
overseeing the increase of weekly purchases from 30 to more than 700 in less than two years. The process
of back-end design included, among other things, mathematical theory for item-item and user-item
recommendation systems or sampling frequency estimation for quality control in the warehouse.
 In the same capacity I have managed several teams of outsource programmers and designers to implement
complex changes to the existing project without disrupting service to our customers.
 Lead several high-profile projects in the subordinate companies, aimed at replacing and enhancing the out-
of-date IT infrastructure, increasing throughput, efficacy and reliability of almost every aspect of company
IT-related workings through applying current best practices and employing outsource companies instead of
ad-hoc in-house solutions.
July-December 2013 SIA Trialto, Latvia Research and Development Manager
 Provided ad-hoc data analysis to create insight in complex problems.
 Analyzed, documented and reviewed warehouse processes in order to improve efficiency and transparency
of operations.
 Worked with outsource developers to improve Warehouse Management System, both by enhancing existing
software and introducing new features.
 July-September 2010 SIA Trialto, Latvia Operations Research internship
 Gained theoretical and real life knowledge of inner workings of a 3PL logistics company
 Created and introduced new performance measurement procedure for packaging department

EDUCATION

2009- 2013 University of Warwick – Master of Mathematics Operational Research Statistics and
Economics
 Modules emphasizing the use of quantitative methods for modelling and solution of complex numerical
problems.
Dissertation Title: “Application of Separable Approximation Algorithm to Demand Management Problem in E-
fulfillment”

2007-2009 Clifton College, UK

 A-levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Economics and Russian with A in each
 AS in Physics and Philosophy with A for the former and B for the latter
 Distinction in AEA Mathematics
 Second Board in Clifton College Chess Team, achieving a second place in national student competition

1996 - 2007 Riga Secondary school № 40, Latvia

ACHIEVE MENTS AND SKILL S

 Languages Russian – native, English – fluent, Latvian - advanced, French – basic.

 Passed AMA five-day MBA refresher course.
 Computer skills: MS Office and various data retrieval and processing packages (incl, Relational Databases
theory and SQL (PostgreSQL, experience with Netezza, Hadoop, BigQuery), VBA and R programming
languages, Tableau and MATLAB, as well as general knowledge of Computer Science).
 Working knowledge of Python programming language, developed for personal and professional use and
through several courses, including NLTK, graphlab, pandas, scipy and sklearn packages.
 Experience with AWS systems (S3, Redshift, Lambda, CloudWatch)
 Machine Learning course by University of Washington (via Coursera)
 Minor experience with Unix-type Operating Systems
 Management and organization experience as a creator and administrator of several on-line cooperative writing
projects.
 Winner of several national and international mathematics competitions and intellectual games championships
 Leadership skills acquired serving as sergeant-cadet of RAF (year 2008-2009)
 Achieved red belt in Zhan Shu Kuan
 Volunteer experience in Thailand and Israel

All references available on request