Courtney Soderberg
Staff Quantitative User Experience Researcher
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolCourtney Soderberg is a staff Quantitative User Experience Researcher with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience blending quantitative methods, data science, and social psychology to inform product strategy at scale. Currently at Google after leading Quant UXR work at Meta’s Facebook Creators Well-being team, she tackles complex problems like comment quality, harassment, impersonation, and creator controls by combining survey research, log analysis, and experimental design. Her background as a statistician and data scientist at the Center for Open Science involved designing large-scale reproducibility studies, running hundreds of consulting engagements, and producing automated, reproducible product metrics and evaluations. Courtney mentors teammates on power analysis, SQL, R, and survey methods, and brings a research-to-product mindset grounded in rigorous methodological training (PhD in Social Psychology with quantitative minor). Based in Madison, WI, she’s known for translating nuanced behavioral insights into measurable product interventions that protect user well‑being.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at Barnard CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Psychology (Minor: Quantitative Psychology), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Psychology (Minor: Quantitative Psychology) at Univeristy of California, DavisTJHSST
Github Skills (37)
knitr10
r9
open-science9
reproducible-research9
stable9
django9
django-rest-framework9
science9
rmarkdown9
creative-commons8
python8
data-visualisation8
javascript8
data-wrangling8
ecology7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
csoderberg/OSF-Curriculum
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:188 commits, 39 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 7 months
CenterForOpenScience/data-science
Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:567 commits, 534 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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