Summary
Jamel Thomas is a Principal Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying statistical rigor and machine learning to product and business problems, currently leading analytics at Tandem Diabetes Care. He holds an M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Mathematics and pairs deep mathematical fluency with practical experience building forecasting, recommendation, and segmentation systems from internship to principal level. Jamel has a track record of shipping production-ready models and dashboards, and has led data efforts across healthcare, security, and nonprofit sectors where he also built web and visualization pipelines. He maintains a data-focused blog (jamelt.com), signaling a habit of explaining complex results accessibly for broader audiences. Notably, his early research involved computational proofs that checked billions of permutations, reflecting a comfort with large combinatorial and computational challenges.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at California State University, Monterey Bay
Master's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at San Diego State University
English, Spanish