Alan Kessler
Lead Data Scientist
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Kessler is a Lead Data Scientist with 10 years of experience who transitioned actuarial rigor from Property & Casualty insurance into sports analytics for the St. Louis Cardinals. He combines advanced predictive modeling, geospatial analysis, and cloud-enabled data engineering—skills honed managing modeling and technology teams at State Farm—to deliver production-ready models and data platforms. His background includes building tornado and severe-thunderstorm risk models, integrating Hadoop/Spark with AWS, and leading cross-functional efforts in rating, underwriting, and data governance. A Northwestern data science master's graduate with a 4.0 and an actuarial BS from UIUC, he balances deep statistical expertise with practical engineering and team leadership. Notably, he applies insurance-grade validation and governance practices to sports analytics, bringing uncommon rigor to baseball data science.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Data Science, 4.0, Master’s Degree, Data Science, 4.0 at Northwestern UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
sports-data10
sqlite-database9
python7
database7
leaderboard6
sqlite6
data-analysis5
scraper5
scrapy5
selenium3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alanrkessler/Northwestern-MSDS
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 26 pushes in 10 months
alanrkessler/redbird
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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