James Gao
Lead Data Scientist
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Gao is a Lead Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying experimentation, payments expertise, and ML to consumer financial products across FinTech and insurance. He has led data science teams at Square and Jerry, helped launch Wise’s first US international debit card, and now focuses on reinventing how people buy car insurance. Trained at UC Berkeley and UCLA in data science and statistics, he blends rigorous experimentation design with hands-on skills in SQL, Python, R, and data visualization to drive product decisions. Known for shipping measurable business impact across payments and insurance rails, he brings a product-minded, analytics-first approach that bridges research and deployable ML solutions. An unusually broad background—from supply chain and media internships to scaling fintech products—gives him a pragmatic lens on cross-functional execution.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Information and Data Science Data Science, Master's of Information and Data Science Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Mission San Jose High SchoolUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (1)
dspuci/dspuci-website
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 commits in 3 months
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