Summary
Finian O'Neill is a Senior Director leading AI Acceleration in biotech with over a decade of hands-on machine learning and data science experience across Genentech and Gilead Sciences. He has a track record of turning messy, multi-vendor healthcare datasets into production ML systems—cutting external spend, improving model recall and precision by 20%+, and enabling products that boosted field engagement and recovered tens of millions in revenue. Comfortable both as a technical lead and people manager, he has built teams of data scientists and engineers to deliver recommender systems, fraud detection, and just-in-time marketing platforms at scale. Trained as a physicist, he brings a research-minded approach to applied problems and a history of shipping pragmatic, ensemble-based architectures in Spark MLlib. Based in San Francisco, he combines domain fluency in life sciences with a proven ability to bridge analytics, product, and commercial stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Boston College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep