Leah Z
Data Scientist II
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah 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 UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (29)
jquery10
knockoutjs10
survey10
knockout9
form-builder9
json9
surveyjs9
forms9
vue9
react9
angular9
typescript8
factor-authentication8
javascript8
factor7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LWVPullman/LeagueWebsite
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 495 commits, 79 PRs in 2 years 1 month
alzulas/PsychClinicSurveys
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:276 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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