Justin Bleich
Sector Head - Macro, Risk, And Data Science
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Bleich is a data science and quantitative research leader with 12 years of experience building production-ready forecasting systems and risk models, currently heading Macro, Risk, and Data Science at Coatue in New York. He blends a business-first pragmatism with deep statistical expertise—PhD-level work in Bayesian ensembles and randomized forest extensions—and a hands-on ability to implement scalable prediction workflows. As a founder and former CTO of a SaaS startup, he has led data and engineering teams through productization and fundraising, and he has taught advanced predictive modeling at Wharton. Justin favors rapid experimentation and building flexible tooling that lets teams iterate on hypotheses quickly, believing strong programming skills are essential for data scientists. His background spans finance, healthcare, and criminal justice applications, and he has produced several R packages and research contributions that make "black-box" models more interpretable.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS Economics Finance and Statistics, BS Economics Finance and Statistics at The Wharton School
Github Skills (14)
statistical-learning9
plot9
bayesian9
regression9
statistics8
bayesian-statistics8
java8
vega-lite7
vega7
visualization6
charts6
grammar5
python-client1
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jbleich89/BART_variable_selection
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
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