Ben Stenhaug
Group Manager - Experimentation & Agentic Data Science
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Stenhaug is a data science manager specializing in causal inference with nine years of experience building high-performance, product-focused analytics teams at companies like Intuit and Realtor.com. With a PhD background from Stanford in statistical methods for survey data and an MS in Statistics, he blends rigorous academic research—dissertation work on item response model selection—with practical ML and experimental design in production settings. He has led cross-functional projects from startup product growth (co-founding a web app that reached over 200k teacher users) to public-sector analytics (allocating mental health resources via a high-precision random forest). At Intuit he progressed from Staff Data Scientist to managing a causal inference team, applying experimental and observational methods to decision-making at scale. Earlier roles at Khan Academy and Teach For America reflect a strong foundation in education, measurement, and creating actionable learning metrics. He pairs deep statistical expertise with product intuition and a track record of turning complex, messy data into deployable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Statistics, BS Statistics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonPhD Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology, PhD Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
r9
tidyverse9
purrr8
dplyr8
grammar8
data-manipulation8
rstudio8
r-package8
ecology7
multidimensional6
dataframe5
theory5
data-science5
stable4
python3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stenhaug/teachR
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
A work-in-progress curriculum of videos, articles, and exercises for teaching data science in R (focusing on the tidyverse)
Contributions:50 commits, 43 pushes in 2 years 3 months
data-sciencertidyverse
stenhaug/website_ben_stenhaug
Jun 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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