Alexander Breslav
Senior Data Scientist Monetization
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Breslav is a Senior Data Scientist specializing in monetization who blends a PhD in cognitive science with nine years of experience turning behavioral experiments and causal inference into revenue-impacting product decisions. He has led cross-functional initiatives at Spotify that are estimated to yield over one million incremental annual subscribers and now focuses on monetization strategy at Figma. Alexander is skilled at triangulating experiments, qualitative feedback, surveys, and advanced attribution models to segment users and diagnose churn drivers, and he builds practical KPIs and playbooks for teams to measure long-term impact. His background in computational psychiatry informs a rigorous, theory-driven approach to modeling user choice and motivation beyond standard metrics. He also mentors researchers on survey methods and scalable research ops, helping organizations raise the bar on methodological rigor. Based in Philadelphia, he combines academic publication experience with product-facing execution to move insights from lab to large-scale impact.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Science at Duke University
Github Skills (7)
markov10
adaptation7
version-control7
decision-making4
visualizations3
matplotlib3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexdsbreslav/qualtrics_matlab_integration
Nov 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
alexdsbreslav/slot_machine_two_step_task
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Version control for editing a two-stage Markov Decision Task; original code provided by Arkady Konovalov
Contributions:2 commits, 26 PRs, 117 pushes in 2 years 1 month
markovversion-control
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