Nidhi Arora
Director, Data And AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNidhi Arora is a data and AI leader with a decade of experience turning complex datasets into high-impact business outcomes, currently serving as Director, Data and AI at Mackenzie Investments. She has a proven track record at Shopify, Morgan Stanley and Aviva delivering production ML systems—driving $99M in incremental annual revenue, improving checkout performance, and cutting fraudulent returns by 30%. Technically fluent in Python, SQL, CatBoost, TensorFlow/PyTorch and Vertex AI, she specializes in end-to-end solutions from experimental design and predictive modeling to deployment and launch monitoring. Nidhi combines statistical rigor with commercial intuition, having led TAM analyses that informed market capture strategies and product changes that boosted retention by 5% YoY. Beyond models, she builds cross-functional influence—translating analytics into merchant-facing product improvements and stakeholder-ready dashboards. Her background in software engineering and teaching deep learning gives her a rare blend of production discipline and pedagogical clarity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics and Telecommunications at Dr. B.R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar
english with 7.5 bands in ielts, Punjabi, Hindi, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
nidsarora/RiskGameTeam8
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 months
karunsh1/MiniSIS
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:62 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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