Summary
Ilir Maçi is a Senior Data Scientist based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience blending economics, management consulting, and applied data science to inform high-impact product decisions. Since 2014 he has driven experimentation, modeling, and analytics at Booking.com, progressing from Data Scientist to senior roles and working at scale across consumer-facing products. His early career in economics research and strategy consulting (BCG, Czech Aeroholding) gives him a strong foundation in causal inference, business case thinking, and stakeholder translation. Comfortable with both rigorous academic methods and product-oriented execution, he frequently turns coursework and prototyping into production-ready insights. Colleagues rely on him for clear, economically grounded approaches to complex measurement problems and for mentoring cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Istanbul University
Master of Arts (M.A.), Economics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Economics at CERGE-EI
English, Italian, Turkish, Czech, Albanian