Ben Roberson
Lead Data Scientist
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Roberson is a Lead Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying data science and engineering to property & casualty insurance products, most recently driving analytics at GM Financial after leading teams at Allstate. He combines a strong quantitative foundation—MS in Computer Science with a Data Science emphasis (UIUC) and a BS in Mathematics/Statistics (Penn State)—with hands-on production work in pricing, underwriting, and customer lifetime value modeling. At Allstate he built and deployed full-stack models for commercial lines, championed integration of third‑party data, and managed the DS lifecycle from research to point-of-sale production. His background spans both individual contributor modeling roles at GEICO and people leadership, giving him fluency in statistical methods, product requirements, and operationalization. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and product-focused: he routinely bridges deep analytical work and practical deployment to influence pricing and underwriting decisions. Based in Fredericksburg, VA, he maintains an active GitHub presence highlighting his commitment to reproducible, production-ready analytics.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Penn State UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (9)
h36
hierarchical5
geocoding5
hexagonal-architecture4
gis4
python-bindings4
python4
indexing3
geospatial3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BenDRoberson/learning_rust
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
BenDRoberson/US-COVID-Case-Visualization
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:17 pushes in 10 months
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