Eric Knudsen
Principal Scientist II, People Science, Viva at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEric Knudsen is a Principal Scientist II in People Science at Microsoft with 12 years of experience applying Industrial-Organizational Psychology to large-scale people analytics and product telemetry. He builds data infrastructure and open-source tooling that turns employee-experience signals into board- and leader-ready insights, having scaled telemetry libraries from a handful of signals to hundreds and shipped R/Python packages for Glint data. A published researcher whose work has been cited by Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg and others, he blends rigorous statistical methods (SEM, clustering, validation) with product-facing analytics rhythms to influence roadmap decisions. Eric repeatedly drives efficiency gains—cutting reporting time, reducing analytics tickets 40% year-over-year, and accelerating query performance by over 90% through engineering and process redesign. He pairs academic training (PhD in I-O Psychology) with hands-on engineering, often turning research into deployable tools and earning recognition like Digital Innovation Grants and the SIOP Flanagan Award. Based in New York, he also mentors teams through acquisitions and technical integrations, bridging research, product, and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Baruch CollegeBachelor of Arts, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology at University at Albany
Github Skills (14)
qualtrics10
r-package10
survey10
r9
api9
ggplot7
graphic6
cop5
powerpoint4
cran4
data-visualisation3
radar-chart2
docx2
rmarkdown2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
eknud/ONETr
Jun 2014 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 12 pushes in 7 years 1 month
eknud/qualtRics
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Download qualtrics survey data directly into R!
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years
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