Heather Conklin
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Health Care Service Corporation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Conklin is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in Chicago with a decade of experience turning messy data into actionable products that improve people’s lives. She blends hands-on engineering (Python, PySpark, Spark, Flink, SQL, TypeScript/React) with applied data science—building pipelines and models that power both customer-facing tools and internal decision-making. Her background as a financial planner uniquely informs her user-centered, ethical approach to data, helping stakeholders understand trade-offs and real-world impacts. Heather has led data science teams at major insurers and completed intensive data science and coding immersives, pairing production-grade tooling with rigorous modeling. She’s equally comfortable mentoring developers through problem-solving as she is architecting ML solutions that prioritize clarity and trust.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data science, Data science at General AssemblyDePaul UniversityDev BootcampBachelor’s Degree Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree Linguistics at Rutgers University
English
Github Skills (3)
react3
typescript2
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
heath3conk/phase-0
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:176 PRs, 124 pushes, 114 branches in 2 months
jamesponeal/Dominion
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 15 days
reactdominiongamejavascriptdominion-card-game
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