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Varsha Lalwani

AI/ML Product Lead with 10 years of hands on experience building AI products at global scale

Berlin, Germany (+01:00 UTC)from Berlin, Germany
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Bio

Hey, I’m Varsha! After 10 years in tech—spanning AI, data science, and product leadership at companies like Grammarly, Delivery Hero, and trivago—I know what it takes to navigate complex challenges, drive impact, and grow a fulfilling career, specially in a complex, uncertain and highly growing field of AI. Write to me if you want to discuss AI & Product Strategy for your usecase - be it at a startup, or an established company building their data and AI strengths!

Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence

    I have been building ML/AI products since 2015 delivering successful products with companies like trivago, Deliveryhero(foodpanda) and Grammarly. I have built a range of things: from Predicitve modelling, Automated bidding for performance marketing, traffic forecasting, recommendation systems, fraud prevention, NLP features, LLM based Responsible AI tools. I keep learning and updating my AI skills and would be happy to support you in leveraging AI within your products.

  • Career guidance

    I have made a few big transitions in my career: Data Science to Product Management, From a Tech Employee to a Freelancer, Adding Coaching to my Career Portfolio and slowly building that up on the side. If I can support you figure out your career next steps, brainstorm potential transitions, or support you through the anxious feelings that come while you are transitioning, don't hesitate to block some time with me!

  • Data science

    I am a Data Scientist turned into a Product Manager building Data and ML products for the past 10 years! Built products like predictive modelling for performance marketing, Fraud detection nd prevention systems, Recommendation systems, NLP AI text correction features, Responsible AI toolbox and more!

  • Imposter syndrome

    I am an ICF-certified professional coach and I have worked with 100+ mid-senior tech professionals to get over their self-doubt and mental blockers to pick up momentum again. If you think you need a push to get out of your funk, do not hesitate to block some time with me!

  • Mindset coaching

    I’m an ICF-certified professional coach dedicated to helping tech professionals at pivotal points in their careers—whether they're stepping into a new leadership role, considering entrepreneurial ventures, or realigning with their purpose. My coaching combines about a decade of hands-on experience in the tech industry with deep expertise in leadership transformation. Specially passionate about supporting more diverse people get that seat at the table!

  • Product management

    Product vision, strategies, roadmaps, stakeholder alignment, leadership buy-ins, communicating ML and AI to non-technical business colleagues and clients, launching high stakes non-determininstic Data and AI products to millions across the world.

Toolkit

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    Medium

    Medium is an excellent place to share your experience and show off your expertise in a long form! Over the last 7 years it has brought me tremendous visibility in the industry and many inbounds for collaboration and even landed me a job! So, don't be shy to share what you learn!

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence

    The new wave of AI is exciting - and we are all just getting started. A Powerful tool in everyone's hand - making everyone a builder essentially. Playing around a few tools to understand the limitations and gaps and build something form it.

  • B2C

    Built Products at B2C companies like trivago, Delivery Hero and Grammarly - with high volume data to iterate and experiment and data-driven decision making to augment the product strategy!

Experience

  • Breakthrough With Varsha

    Career Design Coach

    - What's your biggest dream? - How are you living your purpose in your life and career choices? - What's your ideal ten year vision for your life? I coach my clients through some of the biggest and toughest questions they face when they hit the mid-career mark. They walk away with clarity on their purpose, courage to make difficult choices, and confidence in their efforts to build their ideal life. 150 humans coached, 1000 more to go! Asking yourself some of these questions? Let's find the answers together: https://calendly.com/varshalalwani/discovery-call Website: varshalalwani.com

  • HelloFresh

    Product Lead

    Building Adtech Data Products to Optimize HelloFresh Group's Marketing Spend

    Cyber SecurityE-Commerce

  • Superhuman

    AI Product Lead - Responsible AI

    Building a platform with Machine Learning tools to ensure Superhuman(formerly Grammarly) AI products are Safe, Fair, and Responsible to launch to the end users. Drove the process change management across the entire product and engineering org to include automated Responsible AI scoring before any user-facing experiment or product launch for AI-enabled features.

  • Superhuman

    AI Product Lead - GenAI NLP

    Improving lives by improving communication. Working with Superhuman's(formerly Grammarly) NLP teams to improve grammatical error correction and suggest better choices of words for more inclusive language. Launched the Full Sentence Rewrite feature for the Grammar and Fluency Corrections, aimed to reduce users' cognitive overload, correction efficiency, and communication confidence. The Fluency Full Sentence Rewrites surpassed the second most used feature at the time of the launch, within a month after the launch.

  • Delivery Hero

    Senior Product Manager(ML)
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    Item Recommendation - Food and Groceries Working on ranking and personalization for the restaurant and grocery delivery apps like foodpanda, mjam, foodora, yemeksepeti etc with item recommendations This product aims at making the cart-building journey easier by providing personalized and contextual recommendations for items that the users would like - solving two purposes of driving platform profitability and long-term user retention. Incentive Fraud Prevention Solving multi-million euro problem of Fraud at Delivery Hero at scale with Global Data team by building a fraud detection and prevention product for solving voucher abuse and fraud. This effort was aimed at improving acquisition efficiency, reducing cost per order, and driving long-term platform profitability.

    B2CB2B

  • trivago

    Product Manager

    SEM Bidding | Performance Marketing Owning the SEM bidding algorithms, data pipelines and testing infrastructure working with a team of 5 Data Scientists, 2 Data Engineers and 2 Data Analysts. - Owned the metrics for Return on Ad Spend(ROAS) while balancing the quality and volume of the traffic in alignment with the business owners - Streamlined processes in the team by bringing agile practices in the workflow: stand-ups, sprints, reviews and retros - Worked with the team to build anomaly detection and alerting system for reducing manual effort of performance checks for the account managers - Build with the team an experimentation set up to optimise the ad spend using multi arm bandits algorithm to react to the post-covid market changes quicker - Bridged the communication among teams across the digital performance marketing department: Business, Publishing Tools, Data Science, Experimentation and Marketing Intelligence - Facilitate strategy workshops to prioritise the projects and propose roadmaps for subsequent quarters

  • trivago

    Senior Data Scientist

    Worked on booking prediction and SEM bidding algorithm in the Marketing Intelligence team at trivago - Led an initiative to model value of each search term using tree based models and bayesian inference while working on roadmap planning, stakeholder management and documentation - Designed, launched and evaluated tests live to qualify different models for SEM bidding auctions - Productionised the qualified models optimally to update the predictions for millions of search terms everyday for 50+ markets impacting millions in marketing spend every month - Onboarded a new team of 5 data scientists up to the functional speed by mentoring them on tools, tech stack, algorithm and various business topics - Helped the recruitment team in hiring experienced data scientists, data analysts and the team lead for the topic Tech stack: Hadoop, Scala, Looker, Pyspark, R, SQL(Hive/Impala), Oozie

  • First WalkIn Technologies

    Data Science Lead

    - Built a recommendation engine for India's largest cafe chain - Cafe Coffee Day - app platform - Time series forecasting for daily sales and footfall data for McDonalds stores in South and West India - Text analysis - auto-tagging, intent recognition, entity extraction, and sentiment analysis for a retail group to make customer service more efficient and automated

  • Fuzzy Logix

    Data Science Manager

    DBLytix™ is a rich library of statistical, machine learning & quant methods with over 600+ functions for big-data platforms Led a team of 5 data scientists working on a Research and Development initiative to revamp the DBLytix™ library on Teradata platform by engaging in key tasks of algorithm research and development, performance improvements and release engineering. Designed and implemented an extensive training program for 30+ new employees and interns

  • Fuzzy Logix

    Data Scientist

    DBLYTIX™ on Hadoop - Developed and tested DBLytix™ on Apache Hive using its Custom User Defined Functions (UDF) APIs. Managed Hadoop clusters with services like Tez, Hive, Spark, Yarn distributed among several nodes

  • Texas Instruments

    Project Trainee

    Developed a PERL script to automate the SoC(System on Chip) register verification flow to increase readability and avoid test case regeneration for each register definition change which covered 40% of the total work towards the entire automation of the register verification flow.

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