Livio de Lutio

Data Scientist

Experience

Applied Scientist – Policy Science

Uber · Jun 2022 – Apr 2026
  • Led a third-party earnings and cost study for the NYC pay-standard renegotiation.
  • Pioneered an odometer-based analysis quantifying driver incremental mileage in key regulated US markets, strengthening Uber's case for accounting for marginal rather than average driver costs.
  • Developed and owned Uber's approved methodology for sharing driver-earnings information externally, ensuring global consistency from the CEO's interviews to regulatory data shares.
  • Prepared C-suite briefs on driver earnings ahead of Davos meetings and interviews.

Analytics Team Lead

Beauty Pie · Nov 2020 – May 2022
  • Joined as the second analytics hire to build the data function from the ground up; scaled and led a team of three.
  • Designed the analytical data layer (DBT, Snowflake) enabling end-to-end analysis of the consumer funnel, sales, and lifetime value, built from scratch.
  • Built a demand forecast that reduced stockouts, integrated directly into the NetSuite ERP.

Data Lead – Driver Team UK & Ireland

Uber · Jul 2019 – Aug 2020
  • Informed parts of the UK Government's Self-Employed Income Scheme, the flagship contractor-support package during lockdown.
  • Scoped financial-support packages and bereavement policies during the pandemic (30k drivers impacted).
  • Identified flaws in an A/B test of a customer-support programme.

Knowledge Engineer – Alexa Information UK

Amazon · Jun 2018 – Jan 2019
  • Sole UK knowledge engineer designing and maintaining Alexa Q&A features for the British market.
  • Delivered the first seamless third-party integration into Alexa UK (e.g. "What's on BBC One?"), which became the template for scaling Alexa capabilities with minimal internal development.

Senior Analyst – Product, Data Science

Criteo · Sep 2016 – Jun 2018
  • Analysed Criteo's global market penetration; outputs fed directly into investor earnings calls.
  • Built an internal R package automating analysis and slide production, saving each analyst weeks of work per quarter.
  • Recognised with two cash prizes: Best Innovative Project (2018) and Super Star Team Award (2017).

Programmatic Analyst – Advertising

eBay (contractor) · Nov 2015 – May 2016
  • Built a performance-tracking database across all display ad networks, covering ~10% of eBay UK revenue.
  • Managed partnerships with Criteo, Google, Rubicon, OpenX, and AppNexus to ensure data quality and performance.

Skills

Technical

RPythonSQLDBTSnowflakeVimAI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Shell Sage)

Languages

🇬🇧 English🇮🇹 Italian🇫🇷 French🇪🇸 Spanish (conversational)🇷🇺 Russian (basic conversational)

Education

PhD – Wave Mechanics

Imperial College London · 2010 – 2017

MEng Civil Engineering – First Class Honours

Imperial College London · 2006 – 2010
  • Exchange year at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (First Class Honours).

Interests

Kitesurfing · Marathon · Sailing · Rowing · Reading · Geeking