Overview
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Sidharth Goel

Jersey City

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager, Data Scientist & Economics

Mastercard Data & Services
New York
03.2025 - Current
  • Leading a team of 2 analysts to define and operationalize Mastercard Economics Institute’s (MEI) first formal data strategy, aligning analytical priorities with business impact.
  • Collaborating with global data strategy teams across Mastercard to identify, onboard, and integrate high-value datasets, enhancing MEI’s modeling capabilities and insight depth.
  • Directed MEI's analytics and research in the travel sector, directly engaging with the senior leadership.
  • Worked closely with MEI’s Chief Economist and leadership to develop cutting-edge analytical frameworks, enabling real-time insight generation during a period of high market volatility.
  • Co-author on an OECD white paper on the 'Impact of COVID on European Consumers', contributing empirical macroeconomic analysis to shape global policy dialogue.

Senior Analyst, Quantitative Macro

Mastercard Data & Services
New York
03.2022 - 02.2025
  • Co-authored eight diverse blog posts featured on Mastercard’s website.
  • Collaborated on MEI’s flagship travel report analyzing emerging trends with internal and external data.
  • Led a team of approximately eight analysts to enhance analytics capabilities and develop new models.
  • Selected for Mastercard’s campus ambassador program to work from Budapest office for 3 months, collaborating with a major UK bank to assess customer credit worthiness.
  • Drove multiple business development initiatives, generating additional projects and revenue of approximately $2M.

Consultant

Mastercard Data & Services
08.2020 - 03.2022
  • Designed a Framework for ad-hoc custom requests decreasing manual intervention by 80% and turn-around time reduced by 50%.
  • Redefined the Audience platform associating with platform teams according to the changing product definition.
  • Co-Inventor on 2 approved patent applications suggesting new ways to incorporate blockchain technology in the payment network.
  • Analysed the impact of Oil price variations on Middle-Eastern Economies.
  • Analysed the role/acceptance/need of crypto currency in Digital world.
  • Created suitable data flows for London School of Economics to assist UK government in the COVID period.
  • Worked with several governments like Dubai, SA etc. to analyse the impact of COVID in their markets.
  • Tested XB Hypothesis for MC's biggest issuing partner and presented to Global XB Head.
  • Worked on Destination Insights and Resident Analysis project with Dubai government.
  • Developed target audience strategies for more than 20 fortune 500 clients.

Associate Consultant

Mastercard Data & Services
07.2019 - 07.2020
  • Single handedly created a sales product for one of the largest retailers in South Africa generating revenue of ~2M$, extrapolated the product to multiple markets with expected revenue of ~20M$.
  • Worked on a market analyser product for Airline companies to track recovery and consumer confidence, with an expected revenue stream of ~10M$.
  • Worked with one of the largest issuers in New Zealand to create a Debit Profitability model, with an expected cut in costs by 15%.

Trainee Analyst

Mastercard Data & Services
Delhi
06.2018 - 06.2019
  • Created an Audience Insights product, launched successfully in US, led to increase in customer retention by 5-10%.
  • Created vaccine, recovery, digital, crypto, and travel dashboards for top-level management to be up to date with the developments.
  • Created country/market level dashboards for Economists to understand the health and recovery of sectors.

Summer Intern

Price Waterhouse Coopers Pvt. Ltd.
05.2017 - 07.2017
  • Developed a database model for the client to manage their funds online.
  • Validated the schema model on SQL for data cleansing and management.
  • With the help of PL-SQL, fund allocation data of the past 10 years was mapped to the new interface created.

Intern

Tata Motors
Pune
05.2016 - 06.2016
  • Mapped the product flow of Complete Knockdown Kits Department for multiple regions.
  • Developed a complaint analysis report to analyse the amount of parts misplaced or broken while shipping.
  • Suggested a packaging alternative to reduce the complaints and look into different packaging measures.

Education

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee
05.2018

Skills

  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • Tableau

Projects

Manipulation of 3D CAD surfaces using Haptics, IIT Roorkee:

  • Haptic communication recreates the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user. Haptic technology was used to create a surgery simulator for the doctors to learn about the intricacies of the surgery.

Simulation and Analysis of Piezo-Electric Windmill energy Harvester, IIT Roorkee:

  • Piezoelectric effect is the ability of a material to generate Alternating Current when subjected to mechanical stress or vibration. Piezoelectric materials were used to create a windmill design for areas with low wind speed.

Awards

  • Selected for National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship.
  • Secured AIR 1855 in JEE Advanced 2014 among 1.5 lakh engineering aspirants which cleared JEE Mains 2014.
  • Secured International rank 141 at Level-2 in 5th IMO in class 10, selected for International Maths conference in NY.
  • Secured All India Rank 1404 in National Level Science Talent Search Exam in class 9.
  • Secured All India Rank 5849 in National Cyber Olympiad in class 6.
  • Secured All India Rank 2832 in National Cyber Olympiad in class 7.
  • Secured International Rank 1122 in International Maths Olympiad in class 6.
  • Secured All India Rank 2908 in National Level Science Talent Search Exam in class 8.
  • Secured All India Rank 3112 in National Science Olympiad in class 9.

Affiliations

Secretary, Audio Section 2018:

  • Coordinated 5 cultural events and supervised workshop for the first year students held under the cultural council.
  • Organized workshop by RJ Naved to promote the Radio Jockeying culture within the campus premises.
  • Conducted several DJ nights/music nights to promote the culture and showcase our new products.
  • Drafted and presented a budget amounting INR 5 million regarding purchasing and setting of a radio tower to the administration.
  • Managed a team of 40 members for the successful completion of all the above events.

Co-Convener, Cognizance (The Annual IIT Roorkee Technical Fest), 2017:

  • Spearheaded a 2-pronged 3-tier team of 80+ garnering highest-ever budget of 13 million INR for the fest.
  • Managed to increase the total participation of the students by 25% as compared to the previous versions.
  • Conducted 30 Zonal events in 6 cities across India.
  • Drafted a social initiative campaign, received the patronage of UNESCO and UN Women.
  • Headed the promotion and marketing division to create the optimum strategy to increase the participation.,

Marketing Head, ASME, 2017:

  • Organized lectures based on basic robotics and mechanics., Secured a sponsorship of Rs.1 lakh for participation in HPVC.
  • Promoted ASME to various nearby colleges through organization of workshops on SolidWorks etc.

Mentor, Student Mentorship Programme, 2017:

  • Guiding and helping a group of 7 freshmen under the Student Mentorship Program of IIT Roorkee.
  • It includes regularly meeting with mentees to provide them proper direction so that they can achieve their goals and enjoy the campus life to the fullest.

Timeline

Manager, Data Scientist & Economics

Mastercard Data & Services
03.2025 - Current

Senior Analyst, Quantitative Macro

Mastercard Data & Services
03.2022 - 02.2025

Consultant

Mastercard Data & Services
08.2020 - 03.2022

Associate Consultant

Mastercard Data & Services
07.2019 - 07.2020

Trainee Analyst

Mastercard Data & Services
06.2018 - 06.2019

Summer Intern

Price Waterhouse Coopers Pvt. Ltd.
05.2017 - 07.2017

Intern

Tata Motors
05.2016 - 06.2016

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
Sidharth Goel