Jim Shen
Assistant Director, Data For Continuous Improvement
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Shen is an experienced research and data manager with a decade of work translating complex, sensitive educational and administrative datasets into actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners. Currently Assistant Director for Data for Continuous Improvement in Palo Alto, he has led data governance, secure research environments, and automated ETL pipelines across institutions including MIT, J-PAL, Stanford, and county education offices. He combines technical fluency in R, Stata, SQL, Qualtrics, and Power BI with deep domain expertise in evaluation design, FERPA and regulatory compliance, and data use agreements. Jim is known for improving reproducibility and team workflows—implementing coding standards, metadata practices, and automated quality checks for million-row warehouses—and for shepherding large multi‑partner projects from proposal to publication. He balances hands‑on technical problem solving with stakeholder-facing skills, having negotiated complex data access arrangements and presented findings to diverse audiences.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
release-candidate10
gitbook6
rmarkdown6
latex6
epub5
html5
bookdown4
testing3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jimhshen/admindatahandbook
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Testing branch
Contributions:1 review, 125 PRs, 471 pushes in 1 year 4 months
testing
jimhshen/merge-conflicts
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
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