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Data Scientist Resume Example
A data science resume that leads with shipped models and dollar impact — built to pass both keyword screens and ML hiring committees.
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ATS Score
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Industry Rating: ★★★★★
Why this resume works
Leads with production models and dollar impact — not Kaggle notebooks.
- XGBoost churn model — $3.4M ARR retained.
- RAG re-ranker — 14% CTR lift across 11M sessions.
- Mentorship + Experimentation Guild — leadership signal.
ATS keywords detected
PythonPyTorchXGBoostLLMsA/B TestingSnowflake
Skills strategy: Modeling, infra, and experimentation stack grouped together — covers research-DS and product-DS filters.
Priya Raman
> Senior Data Scientist
# summary
Senior data scientist with 7 years shipping production ML in marketplaces and SaaS. Models in production drive $11M ARR uplift; specialized in causal inference and LLM-backed personalization.
# experience
Senior Data Scientist @ Lumen MarketplaceApr 2022 – Present
- Shipped XGBoost churn model reducing logo churn 19% — $3.4M ARR retained year 1.
- Built RAG-based search re-ranker improving CTR 14% across 11M monthly sessions.
- Mentored 3 IC data scientists; led Experimentation Guild owning A/B testing standards.
Data Scientist @ Northwind BankJul 2019 – Mar 2022
- Productionized credit-risk model adopted across 4 lending products.
- Replaced legacy SAS pipelines with Python + Airflow, cutting model retraining time 71%.
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Senior data scientist with 7 years shipping production ML in marketplaces and SaaS. Models in production drive $11M ARR uplift; specialized in causal inference and LLM-backed personalization.
Skills Section
Python · SQL · PyTorch · scikit-learn · XGBoost · Snowflake · dbt · Airflow · A/B Testing · Causal Inference · LLMs · RAG
Experience Format
Senior Data Scientist — Lumen Marketplace
Apr 2022 – Present
• Shipped XGBoost churn model reducing logo churn 19% — $3.4M ARR retained year 1.
• Built RAG-based search re-ranker improving CTR 14% across 11M monthly sessions.
• Mentored 3 IC data scientists; led Experimentation Guild owning A/B testing standards.
Data Scientist — Northwind Bank
Jul 2019 – Mar 2022
• Productionized credit-risk model adopted across 4 lending products.
• Replaced legacy SAS pipelines with Python + Airflow, cutting model retraining time 71%.
Achievement Structure
• Shipped XGBoost churn model reducing logo churn 19% — $3.4M ARR retained year 1.
• Built RAG-based search re-ranker improving CTR 14% across 11M monthly sessions.
• Mentored 3 IC data scientists; led Experimentation Guild owning A/B testing standards.
Role Insights — Data Scientist
Live market intelligence for this profession.
Average Salary
$135k – $285k
USD / year
Job Growth
+28% YoY
Year-over-year
Top Hiring Companies
NetflixAirbnbMetaOpenAIAnthropicStripe
Most Requested Skills
PythonPyTorchSQLLLMsA/B Testing
Top Missing Skills
- LLMs
- RAG
- MLOps
Most Valuable Certification
AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty
By Amazon
Avg uplift
+10% salary
Interview Insights
Most common questions hiring managers ask for this role.
1
Walk through a model you shipped to production.
2
Explain bias-variance to a PM.
3
Design an A/B test for a recommender change.
4
How would you build a RAG system over our docs?
Career Roadmap
Typical progression for this role.
Data Analyst
Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist
Staff DS
Principal DS / Head of DS
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Top ATS keywords
PythonSQLMachine LearningPyTorchTensorFlowA/B TestingCausal InferenceMLOpsLLMsSnowflake
Writing tips for this role
- Lead with shipped models in production and the metric they moved.
- Mention frameworks (PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost) explicitly — recruiters filter on them.
- Show one ML engineering / MLOps win to differentiate from pure analyst resumes.