Hi! I'm Hervind Philipe

Data Scientist

&

Analytics Instructor

Math & coding bring me thrills

About Me

hervind


Data Scientist who do Math for fun.
Working on AI during the day,
mentoring in analytics at night.

15 years ago, I became a professional tutor for students to fund my high school and university.
Today, I find satisfaction in sharing knowledge to individuals who loves learning.

I began my data career 1 year before graduating.
Over the last 9 years, I've collaborated with professionals from around the world.

Actively contributing to the creation of
Articifial intelligence, predictive models, the development of ETL processes, and the generation of valuable business insights.
I have the privilege of learning from esteemed data coaches and growing in constructive environments.

My Journey

Data Science

2020 - Now | Senior Data Scientist - Traveloka

Building analytics AI and recommendation systems.

Highlighted projects:
+ Reduced 12 hours of daily manual work by developing an AI Agent for Automated Root Cause Analysis (helping 12 analysts, 1 hour each).
+ Increased revenue by ~$70K/month from the hotel search list page by incorporating search preferences into the ranking algorithm.
+ Achieved a 38% increase in conversion from the “similar hotels” section.

2018 - 2020 | Lead AI Researcher - Astra

Built real-time video & image comprehension products using artificial intelligence to accelerate and enable business processes.

Highlighted projects:
+ OCR: Improved perfect-match accuracy on Indonesian identity cards in our dataset — benchmark on Google API was 89%, ours achieved 93%.
+ Enabled Face Recognition System at one of Astra's buildings to recognize thousands of visitors per month.
+ Implemented crowd counting at more than 10 events to determine where and when crowds peaked.

2016 - 2018 | Data Scientist - OLX

Helping OLX users and businesses through text and image processing.

Highlighted projects:
+ Image quality detection: Increased ad views by 20% by recommending sellers to improve photos when the model detected poor quality.
+ Ad category recommendation model: Helped sellers reduce posting time by an average of 7 seconds as they no longer needed to manually choose categories.
+ Abuse user detection: Identified users creating new accounts to bypass paywalls, and distinguished between churned users and those with multiple accounts.

Teaching Experience

2022 | Analytics Instructor

At RevoU Institution, taught Statistics and Python skills to 300+ students across 4 batches. Received an instructor rating of 4.97/5.00 and won the Best Instructor Award from students.

Served as Lead Instructor for 2 corporate training programs (Telkomsel & Kemenkes), training a total of 40 students over 3 months.

2019 | Machine Learning Instructor

At Evolve Machine Learners Institution, created the curriculum and taught several machine learning and computer vision boot camps, each 4 months long with 32 sessions.

At Bangkit Academy, served as an instructor for the machine learning track, mentored 5 capstone project teams, and was 1 of 7 judges to shortlist 53 teams to the top 15 for funded projects.

2010 | Math Private Tutor

Independent private tutor.

At 14 years old, skipped a school day to distribute flyers in nearby schools to market myself as a tutor :D.
These flyers launched my teaching journey and helped me stay in school despite financial challenges.
Taught more than 30 students — some trusted me to guide them from their elementary school final exams to their university calculus courses, making it a joyful long-term mentorship!

My Skills

AI Engineering

LangChain, LangGraph

Hugging Face

OpenAI, Gemini

Software / Tools

Python

Tableau

Bigquery / SQL

Data Modeling

pyTorch

Tensorflow

scikit learn (sklearn)

transformers (hugging face)

Data Engineering / ML Ops

DBT

MlFlow

Docker, Kubernetes



Let's Connect

phervind@gmail.com