Dan Vatterott is a Senior Director of Data Science with a decade of experience turning complex behavioral and neural datasets into product and business impact across streaming media. He led data science teams at Paramount+ and Showtime, shipping production ML models, automating A/B test analysis, and cutting ETL runtimes by more than 80% to accelerate decision-making. Trained as a cognitive scientist with a PhD, Dan blends rigorous experimental design and unsupervised learning to surface actionable insights from millions of customer events. He built user-facing ML tooling during an Insight Data Science fellowship (including a Chrome extension that highlights useful Stack Overflow answers) and deploys models on AWS for production use. Based in Ballwin, Missouri, he’s comfortable bridging research and engineering while scaling analytics practices across large, cross-functional organizations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science English and Psychology, Bachelor of Science English and Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Saint Thomas Academy
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cognitive Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cognitive Psychology at University of Iowa
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