Jeff C. Ho
About Jeff C. Ho
Senior Data Science and Product Management leader working with data-driven ML products in HR tech, advertising and geospatial analytics. EXPERIENCE - Senior Product Manager, Data @ Indeed.com Sets and executes strategy for measuring who gets hired on Indeed, spearheading novel data collection efforts and using the data to build and deploy models across Indeed surfaces, leading a team of 12 Data Scientists, Engineers and APMs - Senior Product Manager (Data), SafeGraph (Series B startup) Orchestrated the development and launch of a geospatial big data product built with Spark and a ML model pipeline, generating the first product revenue in 3 months, with a team of 4 Engineers and 3 Product Data Analysts - Data Science Manager, Known Global Optimized advertising performance for brands while developing custom pipelines for data ingestion, model training, and batch transformation, building the first company MVP for predictive real-time bidding in programmatic advertising auctions - Director of Science and Product, Floodbase (small startup) Led the ideation, technical development, and launch of two data dashboard products for governments to visualize disaster risk maps based on satellite imagery, growing product revenue 5-fold to >$500,000 SKILLS - Programming Languages: Python, SQL, bash, Scala JavaScript, R, Matlab - Tools: Spark, Pandas, Scikit-learn, AWS, SageMaker, LightFM, Streamlit, Google Cloud, Docker - Statistics: Linear/logistic regression, Regularization, Dimensionality Reduction, A/B testing - Machine Learning: CART/XGBoost, LASSO, Ridge, PCA, Collaborative filtering, CNNs EDUCATION - Stanford University 2018 PhD, MS, Civil & Environmental Engineering Developed and scaled algorithms for detecting algae using satellite imagery, and used results to understand how climate change affects freshwater resources with machine learning - University of Waterloo 2011 BASc, Environmental Engineering