Jake Hanson
Senior Data Scientist
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Hanson is a Senior Data Scientist and PhD astrophysicist with a decade of experience designing and shipping production-scale AI and ML systems that drive multimillion-dollar business impact. He has led end-to-end model ownership from experiment design to deployment—reducing charge-off losses, boosting revenue through experimentation, and architecting LLM-driven analytics and democratized interfaces that let analysts query LLMs via SQL. Comfortable bridging research and product, he builds scalable BigQuery- and vector-embedding-based infrastructure, validates complex models, and mentors teams on best practices. Based in Phoenix, he pairs rigorous Bayesian and statistical training from academia with practical engineering to turn noisy real-world data into reliable decisioning systems. A detail that often surprises collaborators: his background in information theory and origins-of-life research informs his creative approaches to model interpretability and robustness.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Arizona State University
Github Skills (13)
python10
scientific-computing9
numpy9
mutual-information8
ants7
information-theory6
simulation6
nest6
entropy5
c-library3
typescript3
markdown3
macos2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ELIFE-ASU/pyphi-spectrum
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
A toolbox for integrated information theory.
Contributions:4 PRs, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
information-theory
jakehanson/jakehanson.github.io
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:113 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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