Jill Cates
Senior Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJill Cates is a Senior Data Scientist with a decade of experience building scalable data pipelines and deploying machine learning solutions across healthcare and e-commerce. At Shopify she progressed from Data Scientist to senior individual contributor, applying production-grade ML to large, real-world datasets. Her background includes developing an early-onset sepsis diagnostic model, standardizing clinical data, and shipping an implicit-feedback recommender used by ~500,000 clinicians and researchers. Trained in medical physics and data science, she blends rigorous domain knowledge with practical engineering—having also migrated monolithic PHP systems to microservice React/Node stacks and instrumented web platforms for analytics. Quietly, she brings an unusual mix of clinical insight and full-stack delivery experience that helps bridge research models into robust, auditable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Medical Physics, Bachelor's degree, Medical Physics at Western UniversityMaster's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (130)
appwrite10
python10
implicit10
markdown10
javascript10
statistics10
dsa-algorithm10
recommender10
machine-learning10
matrix-factorization10
collaborative-filtering10
recommendation-engine9
hotel-booking9
scikit9
recommender-system9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
topspinj/homys
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:154 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
topspinj/hacktober-survey
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
A hacktober project
Contributions:128 commits, 76 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 year
cssjavascriptpython
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