Summary
Erik Iverson is a Staff Data Scientist in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building data pipelines, experimentation platforms, and customer-facing analytics products. He has led teams and engineering efforts from a technical co-founder role to senior leadership at Samsung, designing scalable AWS-based analytics systems and novel sequential testing methods that shortened experiment runtimes. Comfortable across full-stack development and statistical engineering, Erik has shipped interactive web visualizations (including 360° heatmaps) and production SDKs using Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, React, and Three.js. He blends rigorous biostatistics training with product-minded execution—turning clinical-trial and wearable analytics expertise into robust A/B testing and experimentation infrastructure. Known for mentoring engineers on statistical best practices, he thrives at the intersection of data science, software engineering, and measurable product impact.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Statistics, M.S., Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Mathematics, Computer Information Systems, B.S., Mathematics, Computer Information Systems at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point