Summary
Charles Rice is a Principal Data Consultant with nine years of experience translating financial and business questions into production-ready machine learning and data engineering solutions. A former financial journalist, he pairs investigative curiosity with Python-first practitioner skills to build analytics pipelines, teach data science, and advise organizations on complex data decisions. He has taught at Flatiron School and General Assembly, researched and engineered at BlockScience, and runs ROC‑AUC, where he produces data education content and serves as a professional sounding board for finance-focused ML projects. Known as a "Word Nerd" and recovering hacker, he brings clear technical communication and a reporter’s instinct for evidence to modeling and storytelling. He also leads The Wine Education Council, reflecting an appetite for domain diversity beyond finance.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Deerfield Academy
BA Government, BA Government at Claremont McKenna College
Certificate Business Analytics, Certificate Business Analytics at William & Mary