Juan Acosta
Marketplace Operations Lead, Uber Eats Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Acosta is a data-driven marketplace operations leader with eight years of experience optimizing ride- and delivery-platform economics across LATAM and Japan. Currently leading Marketplace Operations for Uber Eats Japan, he combines a master's in statistics with hands-on analytics and product experimentation to improve completion rates, reduce fraud, and deliver multi-million dollar savings through pricing and radius adjustments. He has led global analytics pods, built pipelines and dashboards, and prototyped real-time fail-safes that were later productized, showing a knack for turning statistical rigor into operational leverage. A former instructor and policy advisor, Juan brings strong communication skills and skepticism of unchecked models, preferring visualizations and assumption checks to ensure robust, real-world solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Statistics, 4.9/5.0, Master's Degree, Statistics, 4.9/5.0 at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaInternational Student Exchange Program, Operations Research, 3.3/4, International Student Exchange Program, Operations Research, 3.3/4 at Ecole des Mines de NantesHigh School, High School at Colegio HelvetiaUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (8)
python7
pandas7
data-structures6
data-structure6
data-analysis6
data-science6
react3
trend3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jpacostar/trend-following
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
peerchen/trend-following-1
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Trend Following Lab
Contributions:76 commits in 3 months
reacttrendlabfollowing
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