Summary
Catherine Zhou is a data science and ML leader with 12+ years of applied experience and a decade of building data teams and platforms across startups and Fortune 500 companies. She has scaled data practices for high-growth consumer products (BeReal, Twitter, Codecademy), led teams through major exits and acquisitions, and specializes in causal inference, experimentation, and measurement-driven product strategy. A seasoned people manager, she has grown multi-layered orgs, improved promotion fairness and DEI outcomes, and coached managers on career advancement at scale. Catherine speaks to large industry audiences and advises startups on data infrastructure, growth, and monetization as a fractional leader. A first-generation high-school graduate and former bike mechanic, she pairs pragmatic hands-on engineering with a civic-minded interest in transportation, pedagogy, and data ethics.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Wesleyan University
Bank Street College of Education
Columbia University
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Stuyvesant High School
r, sql, English