Lead Data Scientist
The Backplane Inc.
Backplane was a startup started by Lady Gaga and backed by Sequoia, Greylock, and Founders Fund. It ultimately didn't work out, but getting to lead data science there was a lot of fun.- Led interviewing and built and managed a team of machine learning engineers- Evaluated all associated technologies and coded entire logging system and flow used throughout all of Backplane- Built entire backend portion of our Internal Analytics Portal and led development of associated frontend and visualizations- Created and wrote all backend and machine learning code for Backplane’s personalized feed, which performed 30%+ better than original hot feed in all relevant A/B test statistics.- Built framework for interfacing between Elastic Map Reduce and analytics portal and main site- Built algorithms for generating trending topics, related topics, top users per tag, and others that increased time on site and user retention in A/B tests.- Managed other projects among development of our custom A/B testing framework, people recommendation, user retention stats, and spam detection.