Karen Settles
Senior Manager, Data Science
Englewood, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Settles is a data science leader with eight years of experience who currently leads data science at Pluralsight, blending hands-on modeling with cross-functional program management. She has a track record of operationalizing ML—optimizing pipelines to cut runtime by hours, deploying lead-scoring and outreach-prioritization models, and running A/B tests that yielded six-figure savings. As a mentor and technical expert, she’s coached over 200 aspiring data scientists on topics from deep learning to production-grade code and mock interviews. Her background spans cloud migrations, large-scale search applications, and natural language work on call transcripts, reflecting both engineering rigor and product-focused insight. Based in Englewood, Colorado, she pairs a physics and music double degree with an immersive data science education, an uncommon blend that informs her analytical creativity and clear stakeholder communication.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Immersive Data Science, Data Science Immersive Data Science at Galvanize - Denver, PlatteBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at University of Rochester
Spanish, French, German, Hebrew
Github Skills (9)
capstone10
recommender8
science8
python7
machine-learning7
jupyter-notebook6
jupyter5
data-science5
big-data3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kfarbman/ski-recommender
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
A recommender engine for ski runs as part of the Galvanize DSI capstone project
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 4 months
capstonepythonrecommenderskidsi
Thinkful-Ed/data-201-resources
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Public resources related to Thinkful's data science bootcamp
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonsciencemachine-learningdata-science
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