Josiah Olson
Data Scientist Lead Usage Based Insurance
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJosiah Olson is a data science leader with 10 years of experience applying machine learning, telematics and mobile data to improve auto insurance pricing and segmentation at Progressive. He leads Usage Based Insurance efforts, combining actuarial rigor with open-source data pipelines, web visualizations and scalable deployments across AWS, Hadoop, Flask and Shiny. His background spans end-to-end work—from prototyping deep learning on unstructured data to productionizing models that price a multibillion-dollar book of business. Known for translating “black box” models into actionable insights for stakeholders, he also has hands-on experience building reproducible research and polyglot engineering workflows. Based in Cleveland, he pairs an Economics and Statistics BA with practical actuarial modeling and a track record of shipping data products that measurably impact underwriting and profitability.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Statistics, GPA: 3.70/4, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Statistics, GPA: 3.70/4 at Kenyon CollegeHigh School Diploma, General, GPA: 4.077, High School Diploma, General, GPA: 4.077 at Lakewood Senior High School
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Github Skills (143)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
matthew-sochor/fish.io.ai
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 41 PRs, 21 pushes in 23 days
react
thenomemac/josiaholson-dot-com
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
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