Garrett Vanacore Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

I work on Windfall's data assets, particularly the foundational machine learning models underpinning highly demanded attributes like household net worth, investable assets, and property valuations. As an individual contributor I assume both generalist and specialist roles, mixing data science, engineering, and analytics depending on project requirements.

I was a technical product manager responsible for the data lifecycle at Uplift, an enterprise Buy Now, Pay Later company. I assisted our Chief Data Officer in the strategic planning of our data platform and collaborated with both engineers and operational stakeholders on its development.I directly managed an overhaul of our financial data domain. We advanced the automation of business processes in accounting, treasury, and capital operations by giving them first-class representation in our stack.

As one of Uplift's first data scientists I had the pleasure to contribute broadly to the development of our core loan product and our commercial business through the company's early growth. I built expertise in consumer risk management through two years of work in the lending team, guiding our underwriting program to profitable unit economics across all credit segments served, including subprime. I then transitioned to commercial development, providing strategic insights to negotiations with merchant partners while also prototyping our data-backed marketing program. Some projects I'm particularly proud of are:- Designing, developing, and productionizing machine learning-based credit models that have profitably underwritten hundreds of millions of dollars in unsecured consumer loans.- Defining a marketing framework oriented around behavioral analysis of acquired and prospective customers, and creating the segments underpinning our program.- Pioneering the usage of graph databases in our technology stack for productionization of graph-based fraud prevention techniques.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Conducted fundamental research in theoretical condensed matter physics under Prof. Philip W. Phillips. Created novel models of electronic phenomena, using gauge/gravity duality to design systems of non-linear partial differential equations for modeling properties of copper-oxide superconductors. Streamlined research group's current and future projects by developing Mathematica package to automate both the generation of analytic differential equation models and the computation of approximate numerical solutions via iterative finite-difference methods. Trained two graduate students in research group's methods.Extensively practiced written and verbal communication through twelve semesters of teaching for the Department of Physics, handling diverse roles such as curriculum development, lecturing, and guided problem solving. Wrote 140 pages of innovative teaching materials for advanced undergraduate curricula in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics, iteratively improving those materials semester-by-semester via student feedback. Ranked excellent by students all semesters, nine times with outstanding distinction reflecting reviews in the top 10% of teaching assistants across all university departments.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Assisted Inprentus' transition to predictive, model-backed manufacturing of high-precision optical devices by creating simulations of nano-scale mechanical processes in metals. Mediated research collaboration with faculty at UC Berkeley, developing novel simulations of elasto-plastic metal deformation.

Haverford College

Conducted fundamental research in theoretical cosmology and topology under Assoc. Professors Stephon Alexander and Joshua Sabloff (respectively). In cosmology research, performed perturbative stability analysis of new dark energy models, culminating in thirty-page thesis which won the Physics department's senior thesis award. Topology research produced Mathematica code to visualize Legendrian knots for development of new theorems.

Ph.D. (Incomplete), Physics

Activities and Societies: Illinois Guidance for Physics Students (graduate mentor)Took a hiatus to pursue a career change.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Honor Code Orienteer Committee (co-head), Humtones A Cappella (president)Completed degree with high honors.