Alex Farach
Director Of Analytics at Microsoft
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Farach is a Senior Data Scientist and director-level analytics leader based in Washington, D.C., with over a decade of experience translating complex data into strategic decisions at scale. At Microsoft he co-authored the Work Trend Index and designed randomized controlled trials for Copilot, directly informing executive strategy, go-to-market plans, and public narratives about AI’s impact on productivity. He builds end-to-end experimental and survey pipelines and causal models using R, Python, SQL, and Power BI, and develops agent-centric metrics that tie product signals to business outcomes. His research extends to macroeconomic framing of AI as digital labor, exemplified by an authorship on “Evolving the Productivity Equation” (arXiv, 2025). Known for briefing senior leaders and shaping press-facing interpretations of data, he combines rigorous empirical methods with a knack for communicating actionable insights beyond technical audiences.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Business Management, Bachelor of Science Business Management at University of PhoenixMaster of Science Economics, Master of Science Economics at Florida Atlantic University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
farach/data
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
farach/onet2r
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 36 pushes, 11 branches in 5 months
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