Bryan Smith
Staff Data Scientist
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Smith is a staff data scientist with 11 years of experience building ML-driven search, ads, and AR systems at Meta, Google, Reddit and now Shopify, with a track record of scaling data platforms to billions of users. He combines deep expertise in experimentation and causal inference with technical leadership—having led cross-functional teams as a Tech Lead and Senior Manager—to turn ambiguous signals into product decisions that move metrics. Bryan’s background spans academia to industry: a PhD in high-energy physics, a master’s in CS, an MBA, and hands-on experience building sensor-driven robotics and mobile apps for K–12 education. He is comfortable both designing rigorous experiments and shipping production data infrastructure, and he often bridges product, research, and engineering to accelerate impact. A lesser-known strength is his early work using Kalman filters and PID controllers in robotics, which informs his pragmatic approach to noisy sensor and user-behavior data.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Davis - Graduate School of ManagementUniversity of California, IrvineData Science, Data Science at GalvanizeBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at UC Santa BarbaraMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCertificate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Certificate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (5)
bryantravissmith/Self-Driving-Car
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
bryantravissmith/In-Hospital-Mortality-Predictions-With-Scala-on-MIMIC-III
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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