Summary
Alan Si is a Canadian data scientist turned product and growth leader based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer products at the intersection of ML, analytics, and product strategy. He’s helped multiply user bases and revenue — from re-accelerating Instagram’s growth and designing its recommendation systems to helping The Athletic scale from 500k to 1.2M subscribers and doubling MAU at Character.AI. Alan blends hands-on data science and engineering (including backend contributions to the KA Lite content recommender) with product leadership across discovery, community, monetization, and retention. He’s an early PM hire and operator who repeatedly leads cross-functional teams to invent new use cases and expand TAM, and has driven large-scale experimentation and ranking improvements at YouTube and Airbnb. Comfortable moving between code, metrics, and go-to-market, he pairs a Berkeley master’s in data science and machine learning with business training from Ivey to translate complex models into impactful product outcomes. Not obvious from titles: he’s shipped production recommender APIs in open-source education tooling, reflecting a long-standing interest in practical, mission-driven ML.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Data Science & Machine Learning, Master's Degree Data Science & Machine Learning at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's Degree Honours Business Administration, Bachelor's Degree Honours Business Administration at Ivey Business School at Western University
Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Western University
High School IB Diploma, High School IB Diploma at Ashbury College