MÂ Popov
Staff Data Scientist
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolM Popov is a Staff Data Scientist with 14 years of experience building data-driven products and analytics at the Wikimedia Foundation, rising from Senior Data Scientist to Data Science Manager and now leading at staff level. Trained in statistics at Carnegie Mellon with a mathematics background, he combines rigorous experimental thinking with hands-on engineering—having implemented event platforms and analytics instrumentation in the official Wikipedia Android and iOS apps to improve behavioural tracking and debugging. He has production experience as a DBA/sysadmin and statistician in clinical research, giving him a pragmatic understanding of data infrastructure, quality, and governance. Known for translating messy product signals into reliable event pipelines, he balances leadership, mentorship, and deep technical contributions across mobile telemetry and large-scale analytics.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Statistics, Master’s Degree Statistics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at California State University, Fullerton
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Github Skills (21)
kotlin10
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
wikipedia10
eventlog10
analytics10
java10
javas10
android10
swift10
rest-api8
salesforce-rest-api8
package-manager6
coredata6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/wikipedia-ios
Oct 2016 - Sep 2020
📱The official Wikipedia iOS app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:19 reviews, 28 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:M's contributions primarily focus on developing the iOS application, specifically related to the Event Platform Client (EPC) and its integration. They implemented and refined the EPC library, including thread-safe event buffering, stream configuration, and session management. The user also instrumented the Edit History Compare feature, integrating it with the new event logging client. Further contributions included refactoring and updating the library for production use, including fixing issues with stream configuration processing.
objective-cios-appwikipediaswiftios
wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
📱The official Wikipedia app for Android!
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:M primarily contributed to the Wikipedia Android application, focusing on analytics and data collection. Their work involved modifying the `SearchFunnel`, `ShareAFactFunnel`, `ToCInteractionFunnel`, `LoginFunnel`, and `DailyStatsFunnel` classes, updating revision IDs, and standardizing field names within these funnels. They also added functionality to log the list of languages at the start of a search. The changes indicate a focus on improving the tracking of user behavior and debugging data collection issues within the app.
commonswikipedia-androidwikimediamediawiki-apiandroid
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