John Houser
Product Data Science
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Houser is a Product Data Science leader based in Austin with 12 years of experience applying ML/AI to product and business problems across startups and enterprise teams. He progressed from academic biophysics—where he mapped hundreds of molecular machines and built dynamical models—to senior and director data science roles at Procore and now leads product-focused modeling at Shopify. Known as a hands-on technical manager, he combines rigorous statistical foundations (SVMs, clustering, dynamic systems) with product sense to ship high-value models that influence roadmap decisions. He excels at translating complex research into pragmatic production systems and often bridges cross-functional teams to turn noisy experimental or product data into actionable insights. An understated strength is his track record of moving between deep scientific research and scalable industry ML, making him adept at solving atypical, high-ambiguity problems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at The University of Texas at AustinPhd Physics Biophysics, Phd Physics Biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (2)
database1
search-engine1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
marcottelab/AG3C_starvation_tc
Mar 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:51 commits in 1 year 3 months
jrhouser/cookie-recipe-scraper
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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