Syed Atif Umar is a celebrated analytics professional with over 16 years of experience in the fields of analytics and business strategy. He has worked across several sectors, including Risk, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Technology, which has given him a wide range of skills and expertise. Currently, he is the Senior Director of Analytics at Flipkart, where he leads research into Big Data/Machine learning solutions. Syed is well-known in the industry as a thought leader in Data Science and Banking and has been invited to speak at several conferences and seminars.

Syed's career began at Tech Mahindra, where he worked as a Software Engineer before joining American Express as an Analyst. After working at GE Money for a few years, Syed became the Head of Risk Analytics. He later joined Fullerton Securities & Wealth Advisors as the Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics. After that, Syed began working for Barclays in London as the Head of UKRB Credit Analytics. Later, he moved to Citi, where he was the Vice President (Decision Management-Advanced Analytics) before becoming the Senior Vice President.

As an analytics expert, Syed has expertise in Banking and Financial Services, Consulting, and Data Science. He has experience in customer acquisition, retention, churn, and experience strategies. As an expert in Data Science, Syed has worked on analytics and machine learning projects with Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Programming.