Hi! I'm Hervind Philipe

Data Scientist

&

Analytics Instructor

Math & coding bring me thrills
Machine Learning pays my bills

About Me

hervind


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

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

I began my data science career 1 year before graduating.
Over the last 7 years, I've collaborated with professionals from around the world.
Actively contributing to the creation of 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

2016 | Data Scientist - OLX

Helping OLX user and businesses through text and image processing

Highlighted projects:
+ Image Quality detection, increase 20% ads viewers by recommending seller to revamp their ads photo if the model detected the photo is not favorable for buyers
+ Ads category recommendation Model, Help sellers by reducing 7 seconds (average) in their posting form as they do not have to choose the category of their ads.
+ Abuse user detection, Detect users who make a new account to avoid to pay wall and to know whether we really lose the user or they just have another account.

2018 | Lead AI Researcher - Astra

Building real-time video & image comprehension products using artificial intelligence to accelerate/enable the business process.

Highlighted projects:
+ OCR, Improving perfect match accuracy on Indonesian identity card on our collected dataset by benchmark on Google API score 89% while our score is 93%.
+ Enable Face Recognition System at one of Astra's buildings to recognize thousands of visitors per month.
+ Implemented crowd counting at > 10 events to know which part of the camera and when the crowd is at peak.

2020 | Senior Data Scientist - Traveloka

Building Recommendation System for Accommodation n Eats

Highlighted projects:
+ Increase revenue by ~$70K/month from the search hotel list page by incorporating search preference into the ranking algorithm
+ Manage to increase conversion by 38% from similar hotel section
+ Built several search recommendation systems that are fast and scalable and customizable according to the business direction (done 10+ customization).

Teaching Experience

2010 | Math Private Tutor

Independent Private Tutor

14 y'o me skipped a school day to spread flyers in nearby schools to market myself as a tutor :D
These papers embarked my instructor journey and prevented me getting kicked out from school due to financial reasons.
Taught more than 30 students, some of them trust me to guide them from elementary school final examp until their university calculus exams, such a happy long term mentorship!

2019 | Machine Learning Instructor

In `Evolve Machine Learners` Instution,
I created the curriculum and became an instructor of several machine learning and computer vision boot camp. Each boot camp is 4 months long with 32 meetings

In `Bangkit Academy`,
I become instructor on machine learning path, mentor of 5 teams' capstone project and become 1 of 7 machine learning judge to curate 53 teams to top 15 for funded projects

2022 | Analytics Instructor

In `RevoU` Institution, Sharing Statistics and Python Skill to 300+ Students among 4 batches. Instructor Rating 4.97/5.00 and get the best instructor award from students

My Skills

Software / Tools

Python

Tableau

Bigquery / SQL

Data Modeling

pyTorch

Tensorflow

scikit learn (sklearn)

transformers (hugging face)

Data Engineering / ML Ops

DBT

MlFlow

Docker, Kubernetes

Web Development

Django

Javascript

GCP (app engine)

Let's Connect

phervind@gmail.com