Lead Data Scientist @ VodafoneZiggo

by Rodrigo Agundez - 01 Feb 2020
Tags: #data science #AWS #deep learning #GDPR #cloud strategy #AI hiring

VodafoneZiggo is one of the biggest telecom companies in The Netherlands, it provides internet, mobile and video on demand services. I worked as the Lead Data Scientist for the Advanced Analytics department with 16 people, a combination of Data Scientist and Data Engineers. Some of my accountabilities are:

  • Find, assess and kickstart use cases in the company;
  • Elevate the WoW of the team with best practices;
  • Guide the Cloud Migration to AWS and cloud cost forecasting;
  • Assess 3rd party AI partnerships in the company;
  • Hiring of internal and external Data Scientists and Engineers;
  • Technical roadmap for the team;
  • Point of contact for other teams in VodafoneZiggo (e.g. BICC);
  • 1 on 1 hands-on development sessions with the team;
  • Data acquisition strategy;
  • Delivery of technical products;
  • Developed the AI environment in the cloud;
  • GDPR related procedures to ensure compliance in our use cases;
  • Establish DRY principles for code and data.