Alan Zhao
Director, Data Science
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Zhao is a data science leader with 10 years of experience building and scaling analytics, ML, and payments risk products across startups and fintechs. Currently Director of Data Science at DraftKings, he previously led teams at Level and Toast where he built underwriting, transaction classification, and real-time payment risk systems that supported loan programs and card-processing decisions (resulting in 10 patents). He combines hands-on technical ownership with product and P&L responsibilities, having launched new verticals like travel and ticketing in adversarial environments. An accidental programmer turned manager and product operator, he excels at translating messy business problems into production data products and models. Based in Cambridge, he brings a mission-driven bent from education nonprofit roots and a pragmatic curiosity about payments, lending, and fraud.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Economics & History, Bachelors Economics & History at Swarthmore CollegeMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Yale School of Management
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Github Skills (17)
anaconda8
language-server-protocol7
ide7
development-environment7
python6
spyder6
qt6
python-bindings5
pyqt5
python-development5
api3
etherscan3
ethereum3
yelp3
fusion2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AlanZZhao/AlanZZhao.github.io
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
AlanZZhao/driven_data
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:27 PRs, 21 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
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