Summary
Jake Sherman is a Staff Data Scientist in Seattle with 11 years of experience building machine learning and recommendation systems across health wearables, gaming, fashion, digital advertising, and labor-market analytics. He has led small data science teams, created technical roadmaps, and shipped production-grade Python packages and data pipelines to scale models on multi-billion-row datasets. At True Fit he authored a paper on offline evaluation for fashion recommendations and improved personalization by modeling shopper intent, boosting offline metrics significantly. His work at Burning Glass produced production classifiers and taxonomy tooling that processed millions of job postings daily, demonstrating a knack for turning research into reliable product services. Jake combines hands-on modeling and software design with cross-functional coordination between product and engineering, and he maintains a public presence at jakesherman.com. An early background in economics and music hints at his analytical rigor paired with creative problem framing.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Economics; Music Minor, Bachelor's Degree Economics; Music Minor at Bates College