Lin Taylor
Senior Data Scientist (Analytics Engineering)
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLin Taylor is a Senior Data Scientist at Shopify with 12 years’ experience blending rigorous scientific training (PhD in molecular genetics) with practical data engineering and product analytics. She has moved models and pipelines into production across fintech and commercial products, working extensively with Python, Spark, and ETL frameworks to ingest and maintain multi-million record datasets. Lin’s background in academic research gives her an edge in experimental design, causal thinking and communicating complex results to technical and non-technical audiences. Notable projects include an early-intervention ML system for police risk prediction and NLP/ML improvements to company keyword offerings, and she maintains code samples publicly on GitHub. Based in Bath, UK, she thrives at the intersection of research-grade analysis and pragmatic, production-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology with a Year in Industry, First, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology with a Year in Industry, First at The University of ManchesterDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics at University of CambridgeRecurse Center
English
Github Skills (52)
predict9
macros9
intervention8
metadata8
jekyll8
table-of-contents8
markdown8
redis7
liquid7
dbt7
ruby7
static-site7
sql7
api7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linbug/planigale
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 81 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 3 months
encyclopediapicturelifesquishyencyclopedia-of-life
linbug/Maze_for_PacWoman
Mar 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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