Jason Poovey
VP Of Data
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Poovey is a data executive with 11+ years building and scaling end-to-end data organizations, currently serving as VP of Data at Greenlight where he tripled teams across Database, Data, ML, and Analytics to power product, risk, and growth for a family-focused fintech. He blends deep technical expertise in parallel computing, machine learning, statistics, and computer architecture with hands-on experience delivering production data infrastructure and trusted analytics. Jason’s background spans academic research and applied programs—leading HPC work on GPUs/FPGAs and streaming graph problems at Georgia Tech Research Institute—so he uniquely translates cutting-edge compute strategies into practical data solutions. A committed educator, he repeatedly teaches complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences, making insights actionable across organizations. Based in Atlanta, he focuses on ethical, privacy-conscious analytics to drive measurable business impact and improve how parents teach kids about finances.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (26)
edges10
vertices10
nodes10
in-memory9
realtime9
graph-algorithms9
graph9
graph-store9
graph-analysis8
r-package8
sampling7
mixed-models7
r-language7
prediction7
statistical-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sirpoovey/stinger
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:151 pushes, 106 branches in 10 months
graph-analysismemorygraph-storeupdatesvertices
sirpoovey/DynoGraph
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 months
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