Joe Saia
VP Of Engineering at Rhythm
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Saia is a VP of Engineering with nine years of experience building data-driven infrastructure and analytics teams, currently leading engineering at Rhythm in New York. He combines a PhD-level economics background and hands-on technical leadership to deliver measurable outcomes—recently driving a 35% productivity gain via omnichannel Salesforce routing and bringing IT functions in-house to boost efficiency. Joe led the design of a scalable BI stack using Snowflake, Fivetran, and Sigma Computing, aligning finance and engineering to enable better decision-making. His career spans data science, data engineering, and cross-functional leadership at startups and research institutions, including Columbia and the Federal Reserve. Known for translating complex analytical problems into operational systems, he blends rigorous quantitative training with pragmatic product-focused execution. Outside typical engineering metrics, he uniquely leverages economic modeling instincts to prioritize work that maximizes organizational ROI.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics at Columbia UniversityUniversity College London
Github Skills (18)
console10
command-line10
windows9
cmd9
windows-terminal9
estimate8
windows-console8
data-set7
categorical6
docker-container6
panel-data6
mixed-models5
regression5
linear-models5
economics4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joe5saia/double_debias
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
joe5saia/eventstudiesdata
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
Docker container to make data set with macroeconomic data announcements
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 7 months
announcementsdockerdocker-containerdata-set
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