Garth Mortensen
Sr. Data Scientist
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarth Mortensen is a senior data scientist with nine years of cross-domain experience applying full-stack data engineering, machine learning, and NLP to finance and healthcare. He currently supports stress testing at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and previously unlocked insights from 300k+ medical records to improve forecasting and revenue capture in payer settings. Garth blends hands-on automation (reducing report processing from minutes to seconds) with production-grade modeling and dashboarding, and has taught fintech Python bootcamps to over 250 lecture hours with strong student ratings. His background in economic reporting and investor relations gives him uncommon fluency translating complex models into clear narratives for executives and regulators. Curious and pragmatic, he also experiments with NLP and programmatic data extraction techniques—evidenced by entrepreneurial projects and contributions to graph database tooling in healthcare analytics.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Arts, Economics, Bachelor's of Arts, Economics at Hamline UniversityPortfolioMaster of Science, Finance, Master of Science, Finance at EDHEC Business SchoolMaster of Science, Double degree, Software Engineering & Data Science, Master of Science, Double degree, Software Engineering & Data Science at University of St. Thomas
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (33)
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libgit28
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garthmortensen/generalized-timeseries
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 106 pushes, 27 branches in 3 months
garthmortensen/finance
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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