I'm Yohan Medalsy, a Senior Data Scientist and independent AI consultant with 8+ years across gaming, marketing technology, and asset management. I've built production ML systems and measurement frameworks that drive growth, including ~25% ROAS uplift via MMM and retention improvements through churn modeling. I have a strong background in statistics, time-series, optimization, and reinforcement learning, delivering solutions with Spark/Databricks/Airflow/AWS and modern data stacks. I enjoy turning data into business value and collaborating across teams to ship impact at scale.

Yohan Medalsy

I'm Yohan Medalsy, a Senior Data Scientist and independent AI consultant with 8+ years across gaming, marketing technology, and asset management. I've built production ML systems and measurement frameworks that drive growth, including ~25% ROAS uplift via MMM and retention improvements through churn modeling. I have a strong background in statistics, time-series, optimization, and reinforcement learning, delivering solutions with Spark/Databricks/Airflow/AWS and modern data stacks. I enjoy turning data into business value and collaborating across teams to ship impact at scale.

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I’m Yohan Medalsy, a Senior Data Scientist and independent AI consultant with 8+ years across gaming, marketing technology, and asset management. I’ve built production ML systems and measurement frameworks that drive growth, including ~25% ROAS uplift via MMM and retention improvements through churn modeling.

I have a strong background in statistics, time-series, optimization, and reinforcement learning, delivering solutions with Spark/Databricks/Airflow/AWS and modern data stacks. I enjoy turning data into business value and collaborating across teams to ship impact at scale.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

Hebrew (modern)
Advanced
English
Fluent
French
Fluent

Work Experience

Independent AI Consultant at Independent AI Consultant
May 1, 2025 - Present
Providing end-to-end ML/AI solutions for multiple clients: developing contextual bandit system for game monetization; building LTV forecasting and ROI-driven decisions; designing agentic content workflows and an AI ghostwriter for social posts; prototyping and backtesting a quant trading algorithm.
Senior Data Scientist at Huuuge Games
May 1, 2021 - March 1, 2025
Led end-to-end data science initiatives for Huuuge Casino and Marketing; built production ML/AI pipelines (Python, Spark/Databricks) for marketing decisioning; owned MMM pipeline driving ~25% ROAS uplift; developed embedding-based look-alike targeting and propensity/LTV scoring; improved UA efficiency; built churn/disengagement prediction; improved D7/D30 retention; productionized pipelines with Databricks, Airflow, monitoring, and documentation.
Data Science Tech Lead at Imprint Social
February 1, 2020 - April 1, 2021
Led AI/Data Science across R&D and business stakeholders; built NLP classification pipeline for X (Twitter) to identify high-impact posts and micro-influencers; hired and mentored Data Scientists; established best practices for experiment design, offline metrics, and launch readiness.
Quantitative Analyst at Asset Management
May 1, 2016 - April 1, 2018
Managed global quantitative equity strategies (~$3M AUM) delivering ~20% annualized returns (net of fees) with ~5% max drawdown and Sharpe ~3.4; created a second Israeli-market strategy (~$8M AUM) delivering ~15% annualized returns with ~8% max drawdown and Sharpe ~3.1; automated fund and back-office workflows in VBA; produced risk analytics and supported derivative pricing.

Education

BSc Actuarial Mathematics at Concordia University
September 1, 2010 - June 1, 2013
Data Science Elite Fellowship at Israel Tech Challenge (ITC)
March 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019

Qualifications

BSc Actuarial Mathematics
September 1, 2010 - June 1, 2013
Data Science Elite Fellowship
March 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019

Industry Experience

Gaming, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Professional Services, Software & Internet