Lizeth Herrera
Lead Data Scientist
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolLizeth Herrera is a Lead Data Scientist with a decade of experience building statistical and machine learning solutions across climate, agriculture, and fintech domains. Trained in statistics with a master's in data science, she blends rigorous theory with hands-on model deployment and team leadership, having led analytics and technical discussions at CIAT and MO Technologies. Her work focuses on climate-informed decision-making for agriculture and using alternative data to advance financial inclusion, reflecting a rare cross-disciplinary mix of environmental modeling and product-driven ML. Based in Nairobi, she combines research communication and capacity building—running workshops and co-authoring scientific reports—with practical responsibility for model performance and data acquisition. Colleagues value her eagerness to self-learn and her track record of translating complex climate signals into actionable insights for policy and business.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Maestría en Ciencia de Datos, Ciencia de datos, Maestría en Ciencia de Datos, Ciencia de datos at Universidad ICESIEstadística, Estadística at Universidad del Valle (CO)
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (6)
yield5
climate-science5
forecast4
climate-change4
historical4
admin3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CIAT-DAPA/usaid_forecast
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 9 months
CIAT-DAPA/RClimTool
Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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