Summary
Leah Z is a Data Scientist II with 11 years of experience building ML-driven solutions across gaming, smart homes, and cloud security domains. She combines deep statistical modeling, Python/pySpark engineering, and A/B testing expertise to deliver production-ready pipelines and actionable dashboards at scale. At Microsoft and early-stage startups she has shipped adversarial detection, prompt-injection defenses, and telemetry monitoring while also creating tools that accelerated metric onboarding and experiment analysis. Her background spans academic research and hands-on product work—raising VC funding for a smart-home demo and boosting solar-home efficiency—so she thrives on tough R&D problems that require multidisciplinary collaboration. Based in Spokane, WA, she uniquely marries behavioral-science insight from a PhD in Experimental Psychology with practical CS skills to surface human-centered, defensible ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Experimental Psychology, Masters, Experimental Psychology at Western Illinois University
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Washington State University