Austin Lee Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Co, Us

As a co-founder and CEO of KAYA, I had the privilege of working side-by-side with my extraordinary co-founders to transform our shared vision into a thriving, cash flow positive company. Together, we navigated the challenges of the pandemic, building a platform that now powers the majority of climbing gyms across North America, hosts the largest repository of outdoor climbing data and pins, and connects hundreds of thousands of climbers with each other, their communities, and the outdoors.From the earliest sparks of an idea, our close-knit team iterated, collaborated, and innovated—securing multiple rounds of venture funding from top-tier investors, steadily growing revenue, and continually enhancing our product. The result is KAYA: a platform forged in collective effort, deeply rooted in community, and dedicated to elevating the climbing experience for climbers everywhere.

San Diego, California, Us

*Acquired by ResMed in January 2019 for $240M*Product manager for our data pipeline, platform, and dependent processes and tools- including machine learning models deployed to the product and the tools used by our BI team.Also managing/slinging code as a data scientist when time permits.

San Diego, California, Us

- Reverse engineered weather simulation program using LSTM- Sequential Hypothesis testing for continuous monitoring of patients, in product - Robust retention models using deep neural networks distilled into easily understandable decision trees- Stack: python, R, AWS (S3, EC2, Sagemaker), SQL, Mongo DB, Keras, Tensorflow, Theano, Pandas, PyTorch, Docker, Spark- 2 Patents

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built and led the data science team. Designed, architected, built, and deployed the Whalr Predictive Engine, which identified inbound users likely to convert to enterprise contracts based on in-product behavior and surfaced these as leads to customer’s sales teams. Built and led data team's product roadmap.Deployed our custom data science solutions to customers, and handled existing customer relationshipsWorked with Sales Team to pitch new potential customers, handled all technical and integration questions and onboarding.Tech Stack: Python, R, Perl, MySQL, MongoDBWhalr helps enterprise software sales teams identify and monitor potential leads from their current user base via our proprietary machine learning algorithms and data enrichment system. We make sales teams more effective by giving them the insights needed to pitch the right person, at the right time, with the right message.Learn more about us at Whalr.com

San Francisco, Ca, Us

IPO'ed in 2019I provided analysis for the product team, built out visualizations and statistical models to help teams better leverage our data assets, and gave technical trainings to managers and directors on the use of our data visualization suite.Projects Include:- Evaluating the effectiveness of store credits given to customers and creating proposals around ways to better segment our customer base to increase ROI- Modeling the changes/friction points on the supply side portal of our website- found out that differences in messaging presented on our mobile site vs. desktop site led to an 15% increase in conversion.- Created interactive visualizations and dashboards on Looker, tracking conversion, revenue, and other KPI's for the Marketing, Merchandising, Product, and Operations teams.

USA Climbing certified coach, clients include national champions and world cup competitors.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

IPO’ed, formerly NextPage prior to acquisition. Led the final product release process for two of our biggest customers- McKinsey & Co. and Grant-Thorton. This meant insuring that the core functionality of our software matched our clients expectations.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Sponsored rock-climber; qualified for and competed at US nationals. Climbed at a elite level- redpointed 5.14 and bouldered V13.

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Industrial Engineering And Operations Research

Bs, Physics, Economics

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