James Mcqueen
Sr. Manager, Experimentation (Weblab)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcqueen is a senior experimentation leader and applied statistician with a Ph.D. in statistics and 11+ years driving large-scale A/B testing and personalization at Amazon, now managing the Weblab team that enables experimentation across the consumer web. He combines deep research expertise in manifold learning, clustering, and time-series analysis with hands-on engineering in Python, C++, R, and SQL to design robust randomized controlled trials and improve decision-making at scale. Previously he advanced experimentation methodology—reducing false positives while boosting power—and has a background in actuarial science and production ML systems. Based in Seattle, he balances rigorous academic publishing with practical product impact and enjoys reading, guitar, and skiing outside of work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Seattle Preparatory School
Github Skills (4)
points10
manifold10
python9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmcq89/code
Dec 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
jmcq89/megaman
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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