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I Turn Data Into Revenue-Driving Marketing Insights

Specialized in causal inference, A/B testing, and recommendation systems that deliver measurable business impact—from €1M revenue lifts to 30% conversion increases.

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Senzai

30% Conversion Lift Through Marketing Campaign Optimization

The Challenge

Digital marketing campaigns were struggling with low conversion rates and inefficient customer targeting. The startup needed a scalable ML solution to optimize campaign performance across millions of customers and interactions.

My Approach

Designed and deployed an end-to-end recommendation system for customer targeting optimization:

  • Causal ML Models: Implemented uplift modeling and treatment effect estimation to identify high-propensity customers
  • Production Infrastructure: Built scalable MLOps pipelines using Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, and MLflow on AWS
  • Data Engineering: Processed 50M+ interaction events across 3M customer profiles
+30% Conversion Rate Increase
3M Customers Scored
50M Interactions Processed

Key Achievement

Established MLOps best practices and production-ready infrastructure that reduced time-to-deployment for new models from weeks to days. This wasn't just a model—it was a complete, scalable system.

Uplift Modeling MLOps AWS Kubernetes Causal Inference Production ML
Mercor

AI Evaluation for State-of-the-Art Language Models

The Challenge

As LLMs become increasingly capable, robust evaluation methodologies are needed to test true reasoning vs. pattern matching. Leading AI labs needed challenging mathematical and statistical problems to benchmark frontier models.

My Approach

Designed advanced mathematical problems spanning probability theory, statistical inference, optimization, and causal reasoning. Problems require multi-step reasoning and proper interpretation of uncertainty—areas where LLMs often struggle.

Impact

Contributed to evaluation frameworks used by leading AI research labs, helping advance understanding of LLM mathematical capabilities and reasoning limitations.

AI Evaluation Mathematics Statistics LLMs

My Process

How I Drive Measurable Impact

A systematic approach from data to deployment, ensuring every insight translates to business value.

1

Understand the Problem

Align with stakeholders on business objectives, success metrics, and constraints. Define clear KPIs.

2

Data & Analysis

Explore customer behavior patterns, build features, and validate data quality. Perform exploratory causal analysis.

3

Design Experiments

A/B test design, power analysis, sample size calculations. Offline evaluation to validate approach before going live.

4

Build & Deploy

Develop ML models, establish MLOps pipelines, deploy to production with monitoring and alerting.

5

Monitor & Iterate

Real-time experiment monitoring, statistical analysis, and rapid iteration based on results.

6

Deliver Impact

Present findings, make data-driven shipping decisions, measure business outcomes, and scale successes.


Clients & Testimonials

"Naoufal's rigorous approach to experimentation and causal inference helped us make data-driven decisions with confidence. His work on recommendation systems delivered measurable revenue impact."

— Marketing Operations Lead, Major European Airline

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Core Competencies

Marketing Data Science

  • Customer segmentation & propensity modeling
  • Campaign optimization & attribution
  • Personalization engines
  • Conversion rate optimization

Experimentation & Causal Inference

  • A/B testing design & power analysis
  • Treatment effect estimation
  • Uplift modeling & meta-learners
  • Sequential analysis

Recommendation Systems

  • Ranking algorithms (learning-to-rank)
  • Collaborative filtering
  • Contextual bandits
  • Offline/online evaluation

Technical Stack

  • Python, R, SQL
  • AWS, GCP (BigQuery), Azure
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow
  • Scikit-learn, XGBoost, CausalML

About Me

PhD in Statistics & Machine Learning from École Polytechnique with 7+ years building production ML systems. Published at ICML 2023. Based in Paris, working with clients across Europe and North America. Fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

Core strengths: Combining academic rigor with business pragmatism. I don’t just build models—I drive measurable revenue impact through rigorous experimentation and causal inference.


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I’m available for freelance projects and full-time opportunities in:

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