Caryn Johansen
Staff Data Scientist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaryn Johansen is a Staff Data Scientist at Discord with 11 years of experience bridging scientific research and product-focused data science. She has led data initiatives across consumer apps (Discord, VSCO, HER Social) and applied computational biology expertise to biotech projects, giving her a rare mix of product analytics and domain science. Caryn excels at turning messy, multi-source data into production-ready insights and models that inform product decisions and expand search spaces for discovery. She values collaborative, inclusive teams and has a track record of shipping measurable improvements in user-facing products. Outside product work, her background in biomathematics and computational biology means she often brings experimental rigor and creative hypothesis-driven approaches to data problems. Fans of curiosity-driven exploration will recognize her GitHub handle @cabinetofcuriosity as a small hint of the analytic creativity she brings to teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Cellular and Molecular Biology, BS, Cellular and Molecular Biology at Humboldt State UniversityMaster's Degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master's Degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at New York University
English
Github Skills (14)
utterances10
github-pages10
algolia10
triangular10
ruler10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
algolia-search9
science2
machine-learning2
python2
genomics1
data-science1
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mirrormere/TFNode
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:30 PRs, 65 pushes, 15 branches in 3 months
carynJohansen/carynjohansen.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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