Erika Vilches is a Senior Data & Applied Scientist in Microsoft’s Cloud + AI group with a decade of experience turning product usage data into actionable business insights and user-behavior predictions. She bridges research and product, applying her MSc in AI and ongoing PhD work to build large-scale analytics that inform documentation and learning engagement strategies. Before focusing on data science she shaped developer and community programs across Microsoft—from evangelism to global program management—giving her rare end-to-end perspective on developer adoption lifecycles. A former computer science professor and published researcher in IEEE and Springer venues, she combines rigorous academic methods with pragmatic product-driven impact. Based in Redmond, she’s known for translating complex ML models into clear decisions for business stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Specialty, MSc. in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Specialty at Tecnológico de Monterrey
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