Kristen Basaraba
Staff Data Scientist
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Basaraba is a Staff Data Scientist with nine years of experience building analytics platforms and production ML at tech companies like Workstream and Yelp. She leads a team delivering GTM-focused data science, owns ETL and dashboard projects (dbt, Tableau), and builds models for churn, upsell, causal inference, and clustering to drive revenue and product decisions. Her background in statistics and computing science is complemented by hands-on experimentation design and deployment experience, including production cohort-selection algorithms and variance-reduced A/B metrics. Currently pursuing an MBA in Technology Management, she combines technical depth with growing business acumen and a passion for mentoring early-career data scientists. Off-hours she channels analytic creativity into hackathons and board game strategy.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Management of Technology MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Management of Technology MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Statistics with Minor in Computing Science (Co-op), Bachelor’s Degree, Statistics with Minor in Computing Science (Co-op) at Simon Fraser University
French, English
Github Skills (44)
database8
visualization8
postgresql7
mysql7
dashboard7
slack7
data-visualization6
data-analysis6
clojure6
sql6
sudo6
analytics6
r-package6
r-programming5
fastest5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ksbystrom/r-workshop-sfu-2019
Sep 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
ksbystrom/ASA_Weather_Competition
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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