Lia Silva
Business Controller at Volvo Cars
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolLia Silva is a Business Controller at Volvo Cars with nine years of data science and analytics experience across finance, e‑commerce and marketing domains. She combines deep statistical and algorithmic skills with practical engineering experience to build end‑to‑end ML and reporting pipelines that have supported multi‑million‑dollar business cases. Lia has a strong track record of translating complex data (customer behavior, payments, ERP, geo, financials) into actionable insights that influence stakeholder strategy and operational decision making. She thrives on cross‑functional collaboration, mentorship and creating constructive work environments, often rallying support to modernize stacks on both cloud and traditional platforms. A former PhD student in cognitive robotics, she brings a rigorous experimental mindset to performance steering and logistics, and publishes a blog (statsletters.com) about statistics and playful math applications. Located in Gothenburg, Sweden, Lia is newly focused on logistics performance steering and eager to learn and grow in financial control roles.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc on Systems Engineering and Computing, MSc on Systems Engineering and Computing at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaIngeniera Electrónica, Ingeniería, Ingeniera Electrónica, Ingeniería at Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
prediction9
espn8
hypothesis-testing7
statistics7
forecasting7
regression-models7
python7
statistical-tests6
modeling6
statsmodels6
h36
econometrics6
scipy6
data-analysis5
geocoding5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lia-statsletters/notebooks
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
lia-statsletters/h3_fun
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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