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, Master's Degree, Statistics at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaInternational Student Exchange Program, Operations Research, International Student Exchange Program, Operations Research at Ecole des Mines de NantesHigh School, High School at Colegio HelvetiaUniversidad de los Andes
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (11)
pandas8
python8
frame7
data-analysis7
manipulation7
data-structures7
data-science6
dataframes5
data-manipulation4
react3
trend3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
peerchen/trend-following-1
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Trend Following Lab
Contributions:76 commits in 3 months
reacttrendlabfollowing
jpacostar/trend-following
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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