Summary
Dustin Leatherman is a Senior Data Scientist based in Burlington, Vermont, with a strong track record of turning data into measurable business value across finance, risk, and analytics. At Civis Analytics since 2021, he specializes in extracting actionable insights and supporting data-driven decision making. As Data Engineering Manager at Amount, he led time series forecasting of cloud vendor spend, designed and implemented a CI pipeline framework for 20+ Python libraries, and built a Spark-based ETL framework that reduced cloud compute usage by 90% while expanding the Operations team into a product-focused function. At TransUnion as Solutions Architect, he grew teams, developed a self-service model-building tool in R, and enforced robust testing and CI/CD practices that eliminated critical production defects. He has contributed to academia as an Adjunct Professor and holds a MS in Applied Statistics from DePaul and a BS in Computer Science from Dominican University. His career reflects a practical fusion of data science, software engineering, and leadership, with a bias toward scalable, production-grade analytics and cross-functional collaboration.
4 years of coding experience