Lauren Oldja
Principal Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLauren Oldja is a Principal Data Scientist with a decade of experience turning imperfect and messy data into actionable AI/ML products that drive social impact across fundraising, volunteer engagement, case management, and civic technology. She blends hands-on technical leadership—building lightweight, deployable data products and ML systems at scale—with operational management of projects, research teams, and client relationships, thriving on the critical path between strategy and delivery. Her career spans startups and mission-driven organizations, from AutoML and fraud detection at SparkBeyond to fintech for financial inclusion and global public-health field research, giving her rare fluency in both rigorous evaluation and production engineering. An active community leader and mentor in the PyData/NumFOCUS ecosystem, she regularly shapes conference programs and educational outreach, and she advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech. Equally comfortable advising C-level stakeholders and debugging models in production, she brings a pragmatic, outcome-focused approach informed by fieldwork in low-resource settings.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
SB Urban Studies and Planning, SB Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMSPH International Health Systems (M&E), MSPH International Health Systems (M&E) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthData Science Bootcamp, Data Science Bootcamp at Metis
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Github Skills (28)
python10
statistics10
machine-learning10
data-analysis10
data-science9
scikit9
nyc9
scikit-learn9
risk-assessment8
pygame8
forge8
jekyll7
idris7
jekyll-theme7
science7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dutc/battlegame
May 2018 - Jul 2024
A Coding Game for NYC Python
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 2 months
pythongamepygamepython3coding-game
loldja/playground
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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