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Maksim Petrov

Credit Data Scientist

€300/day
Barcelona, ES
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Maksim

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Barcelona (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Scoring Bureau LLC (fmr. Equifax Inc.)
    Data Scientist
    October 2020 - Today (5 years and 9 months)
    • ● Developed a logistic regression scoring model for credit card applicants using SAS feature engineering and Python data analysis, increasing Gini by 10 p.p.
    • ● Built an XGBoost classification model (Gini 64%) that helped banks predict applicant behavioral profiles, improving risk understanding across different customer cohorts.
    • ● Quarterly monitoring of production models via dashboards tracking Gini, gain charts, score distributions, PSI, and variable stability.
    • ● Optimized internal data processing workflows on CentOS servers by automating SAS jobs and integrating Python scripts, reducing runtime by 5 hours.
    • ● Collaborated with the top 4 CIS insurance companies that helped to analyze car insurance market data and build a consistent model for fraud prediction (Gini 49%).
  • Quadcode International LLC
    Antifraud Analyst
    December 2023 - November 2025 (1 year and 11 months)
    • ● Reduced fraudulent participation in trading tournaments by 90% through designing and implementing a clustering-based detection algorithm.
    • ● Developed a fraud-detection service for a team of 20 international affiliate managers, cutting manual review time from half a day to 5 minutes and significantly lowering resource usage.
    • ● Built an internal Tableau dashboard that reduced user verification requests response time by 80% by consolidating all required information into a single view.
    • ● Conducted an A/B test that demonstrated the inefficiency of the existing scoring model, leading to its replacement with a rule-based approach and avoiding unnecessary model complexity.
  • VTB PJSC
    Data Scientist
    September 2018 - September 2020 (2 years)
    • ● Enhanced Probability of Default (PD) business model quality for IFRS 9 compliance by developing a credit card customer classification algorithm (Gini 51 %).
    • ● Improved overall PD model performance by designing and implementing a mortgage scoring model (Gini 68%) using advanced statistical methods.
    • ● Built a comprehensive monitoring system, including automated reports and dashboards to track PD model performance and data quality across portfolios.

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Education

  • Master of Statistics
    National Research University: Higher School of Economics
    2018
    Master of Statistics and Data Mining
  • Bachelor of Economics
    National Research University: Higher School of Economics
    2016
    Bachelor of Economics

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