Plaid | Data Scientist | March 2017 - Present | San Francisco, CA

  • Machine learning

    • Built models for ACH fraud detection, account validation detection, income categorization, transaction categorization, and pending-to-posted transaction reconciliation

    • Leading the machine learning ethics workstream

  • Analytics

    • Created dashboards for monitoring bank integration health, standardized metric definitions through documentation and creating source-of-truth materialized views and charts, led business intelligence software vendor search, handled internal data science office hours

  • Ran the software engineering internship programs in 2019 and 2020

  • Created and ran interview loops for data scientists

  • Wrote an internal monthly newsletter for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging from 2017-2020

  • Won company hackathons for several projects including implementing new payments methods, producing comedy skits, implementing free tax filing software, and investigating coverage of minority depository institutions

Operator | Data Analyst | March 2016 - March 2017 | San Francisco, CA

  • Built dashboards to track growth and engineering KPI’s

  • Identified target customer personas with text mining and in-person interviews so marketing could target demographics and customer interests

  • Led QA and UX research for iOS app releases in the US and in China

  • Wrote music for online ads

Eclipse Trading | Quantitative Developer | July 2015 - February 2016 | Chicago, IL

  • Built pricing models for treasury bond futures and commodity futures

  • Led recruiting by writing interview loops, sourcing, setting up campus events, and interviewing


EDUCATION 

Harvard | AB & SM in Applied Math | 2011-15 | Cambridge, MA

  • President of the Harvard Applied Mathematics Society, violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, flanker and prop for the Harvard Rugby Football Club

  • Interned at Goldman Sachs on the FIG Strats team, and at IMC Financial Markets on the risk and trading teams


OTHER

  • Animal welfare volunteer

    • Shelter medicine volunteer with the San Francisco SPCA (over 500 hours from 2016 - Present)

    • Animal rescue volunteer with the Humane Society of the US (Great Danes case in 2018, Camp Fire case in 2018, Dog Meat Farm case in 2021)

    • Relief veterinary assistant volunteer with the Sonoma Humane Society in 2017 and the Butte Humane Society in 2018

  • Arts

    • Violin - performed internationally including for President Obama at the 69th UN General Assembly meeting, and collaborated in chamber music performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, and others

    • Photography - portraits and events for official company photos, friends’ dating profiles, and more