Summary
Ellen Connor is a technical product leader and Director of Product Management in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of product and engineering experience and a two-decade depth in AI research and applied ML. She specializes in data foundations—experimentation, search, instrumentation—and has repeatedly bridged product, engineering, data science, research, and content design to ship large-scale systems that power payments and marketplace flows. Her work spans startups to scale-ups (Valora, GoDaddy, BILL), with domain expertise in payment marketplaces, blockchain, platforms, and language data informed by a PhD in Linguistics. Ellen is notable for translating deep linguistic and conversational design background into practical ML products and for operationalizing models and pipelines that support high-value money movement at scale.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Linguistics, PhD Linguistics at University of Southern California
University of California Santa Cruz
EAP study abroad program, EAP study abroad program at The University of Göttingen
English, German