Karthik Shivkumar

Senior Data Scientist @ Opendoor

Karthik Shivkumar is a Senior Data Scientist at Opendoor, where he has been working since November 2020. He is part of the Pricing & Portfolio Construction Team, responsible for building and maintaining Opendoor's core portfolio optimization engine. His role includes expanding the portfolio optimizer to facilitate Opendoor's growth into new markets and providing insights on portfolio allocation to the leadership team.1

Prior to his current position, Karthik held several roles in data science and analytics, including:

Senior Data Scientist at Molekule (November 2019 - November 2020): Developed and maintained Molekule's data stack, including data pipelines, modeling, visualizations, A/B testing, and machine learning models.
Data Scientist Consultant (April 2018 - October 2019): Worked in Auckland, New Zealand, optimizing audience segments for marketing needs and collaborating with various teams to create end-to-end data solutions.
Data Scientist at Verizon Media (October 2017 - April 2018): Contributed to the attribution model by building features to optimize marketing spend.

Karthik holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and pursued further studies in Data Analytics Engineering at George Mason University. He is proficient in various programming languages and tools, including R and Python for machine learning, as well as Tableau for data visualization.1