Emily Nelson
Software Engineer Data Science
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Nelson is a software engineer specializing in data science with eight years of experience applying analytics to public health and cybersecurity problems, currently building data-driven capabilities at ExtraHop Networks. She combines rigorous statistical and engineering practices from a UW Data Science master’s with hands-on experience operationalizing models and pipelines at IHME for COVID-19 and global health finance programs. Emily has a track record of transforming messy, multi-source data into validated, production-ready datasets and user-friendly dashboards, and she introduced unit testing, code review, and ticket systems to research workflows. Comfortable balancing field-facing work (training survey teams in low-resource settings) with backend automation, she brings domain fluency in health metrics and practical security-aware data engineering. Colleagues rely on her to make data accessible to non-technical stakeholders while keeping analytic codebases maintainable and testable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Diplomacy and World Affairs/Economics, Bachelor's degree, Diplomacy and World Affairs/Economics at Occidental College
Spanish, French
Github Skills (9)
paths8
blockchain6
pipeline5
concurrent3
parallel-processing2
testing2
parallel2
python2
pytest2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ihmeuw/ihme.covid
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 58 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years
Jonathan-Alexander/DATA515-RottenTomatoesAnalysis
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:13 reviews, 14 PRs, 48 pushes in 25 days
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