Oversee tech team

Consultancy targeting media, e-commerce, and other companies. - Newsletter sent out to influential media executives on industry trends- Work with executives on growth, optimization, and data-driven strategy. - Full-stack development of data-driven applications.- Develop original tools for advising clients including • database with information about content on viral media sites • database with every Optimizely test being run on the top 1 million Alexa sites • python scripts for downloading and analyzing Facebook data from thousands of Facebook pages. Clients include: Impossible Foods, J6 Labs, Daily Telegraph, New Republic, Upworthy, Backyard Media, ClearHealthcosts, 150Elm, CoinDesk, CorSearch, Anderson Consulting Solutions

- Lead ML Ops team that works with data scientists to operationalize ML models - Design and develop ML/big data pipelines with Spark/Databricks- Lead development on numerous Snowflake data pipelines- Display data with Tableau- Oversee 100m event day data pipeline- Work with wide variety of technologies such as Airflow, DBT, PostGres, Redshift, Terraform, Docker

Instructor for big data engineering course with technologies like Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and SparkTaught online Python web scraping course that covers web scraping in Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, and Selenium. Developed scripts, slides, and original scraper code for online lectures. Participant in intensive 3-month program that covers fundamentals of data science.

- Oversee Mongo + MongoDB to Postgres data pipeline - Develop data applications including PostGIS geographic database- Tableau dashboards + ad hoc analyses based on business needs - Data ingestion/analysis for supporting business processes

Large-scale web scraping/analytics/social media data gathering and analysis using Python/R/ElasticSearch/MySQL/TableauFront-end development using ReactJs

- Prototyped and developed tool for investigating social media (Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr) accounts (Python using Flask. Used Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, and Instagram APIs.) - Web scraping of competitors and various media companies (Python using Scrapy. Analysis in Python, R and Tableau. )- Ad hoc analyses for various company projects - Qualitative research on media market - Interviews with stakeholders across media about their workflow and needs

- Original reporting on Arab Spring in Egypt - Host live Q&As on the site including a Q&A featuring live tweeter of the Bin Laden raid Sohaib Athar @reallyvirtual shortly after Bin Laden's death - Produce data journalism on my own or in collaboration with reporters including using sentiment analysis to review Jay-Z's Watch The Throne album- Data visualization using High Charts javascript library, Google Fusion Tables, Tableau, javascript, jquery plugins and other tools - Oversee newsletters the Huffington Post sends out- Setup automated reports that perform SQL queries and Google Analytics API requests (using R library RGoogleAnalytics), perform data manipulation in R, deliver data in emails and Google Docs - Implement and help oversee Google Analytics tracking for various products- Handle and answer data requests from editors, product and marketing relying on Google Analytics, Omniture, and MySQL database - Participate in product discussions - Send out internal newsletter summarizing and analyzing future of journalism developments to top execs- Participate in discussions with third-party services

- Reported to CTO- Sent out email each weekday to key members of staff and executives summarizing and analyzing important developments in the future of journalism- Started and helped oversee product roadmap - Started and helped oversee editorial handbook - Helped editors with Photoshop problems and held Photoshop training session- Participated in product discussions- Frequently came up with ideas for improving the site from eliminating small bugs to major product ideas- Assisted editors with technical problems including basic html/css and javascript - Met with third-party services