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