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MICHAEL MAINA

MICHAEL MAINA

Data Scientist

Equity Bank Limited | Kenya

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My Portfolio Highlights

My New Track

Associate Data Scientist in R (previously Data Scientist with R)

My New Course

Introduction to Python

Data Scientist | Driving Financial Insights at Equity Group | Expertise in Python, Power BI, SQL | Transforming Data into Strategic Business Value

My Work

Take a look at my latest work.

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GWD002: Passing The Baton - Time Series Analysis of the USD/KES Forex Rate

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GWD001: Hotel Booking Demand | Power BI Project

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Who Am I? | Spotify Part 2

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Who Am I? | Spotify: Part 1

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Africa: Are The Cardinals Falling? - YouTube

PythonSpreadsheetsPower BI

My Certifications

These are the industry credentials that I’ve earned.

Other Certificates

Faith Driven Entrepreneur Foundation Group Faith Driven Entrepreneur

Microsoft Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate

Udemy, Inc. Artificial Intelligence Ethics Certification

Microsoft Microsoft Certified Power Platform Fundamentals

IBM Data Analysis with Python

DataCamp Course Completion

Take a look at all the courses I’ve completed on DataCamp.

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Equity Bank Limited | Apr 2024 - Present

Assistant Manager - Data Science

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Equity Bank Limited | Aug 2022 - Apr 2024

Data Scientist

1. Developed and tested Machine Learning models that helped the bank optimize costs to a reasonable range of 10% deviation from target. 2. Developed BI reports and dashboards that were instrumental in increasing digital lending to customers by at least 20%. 3. Improved the bank’s ability to address customers’ concerns through highly explainable BI dashboards. 4. Successfully trained cohorts within the bank on BI concepts. Cohorts included existing and new staff. 5. Drove incremental progress towards organization’s strategic plan i.e., consistent increase in customer base and loan book. 6. Developed transformative dashboards that provide visibility of the spend of debit card and credit card customers and solve business pain points.
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Equity Bank Limited | Aug 2019 - Aug 2022

Junior Data Analyst

1. Involved in creating fraud detection models which achieved a false positive rate below 20% and a true positive rate exceeding 80%. 2. Conducted exploratory data analysis on customer behavior data towards customer segmentation and tracking payments fraud. 3. Designed strategic dashboards that empowered Operations teams to increase customer digitization. This reduced branch traffic by 20% year on year. 4. Designed a Customer Product Basket App. Presented findings to executive management, resulting in improved product relevance and customer retention. 5. Developed efficient and scalable ETL pipelines to improve efficiency of ad hoc tasks for the department. 6. Developed BI reports for business departments to inform decision making e.g., reducing customer dormancy by 15% in one year. 7. Automating data science workflows. 8. Unit testing and validation.

Strathmore University | Apr 2017 - Oct 2017

Student Member, Risk Management Center

Participated in and assisted with: - Actuarial and data analysis - Preparation of actuarial reports - Presentation of timely insights

Kenbright Actuarial and Financial Services (KAFS) | Dec 2016 - Feb 2017

Student Intern

Roles performed: - Actuarial Analysis - Insurance operations - Reconciliation of accounts - Generation of documents database - Office administration - Customer care

My Education

Take a look at my formal education

Certificate, Data Science Strathmore University | 2019
Bachelor’s Degree, Actuarial ScienceStrathmore University | 2018
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Mang'u High School | 2013

About Me

MICHAEL MAINA

Avid data analyst with experience in data engineering, data analytics, business intelligence and data science. I continuously pursue growth from challenge-based learning at work and other projects to add value and contribute to organization.

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