Maria Rodriguez
Senior Data Analyst
Happy Valley, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Rodriguez is a Senior Data Analyst with 7 years of applied analytics experience who transforms complex scientific and operational data into clear, actionable stories. With a PhD in Agricultural Engineering and a background as a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor, she blends rigorous research methods with practical data science—bringing academic rigor to business problems at Vetsource. She is skilled in Python, SQL, statistical modeling, and visualization, and completed a focused data science bootcamp to bridge her domain expertise with modern ML techniques. Maria’s work includes both applied analytics in industry and earlier research-led publications and books on fluid mechanics and hydraulics, showing a rare combination of deep domain knowledge and data storytelling. Based in Happy Valley, Oregon, she is motivated by turning noisy, copious datasets into intuitive insights and has built portfolio projects (including emotion-detection models) that reflect her curiosity about interdisciplinary applications of ML. Notably, her transition from academia to product-focused analytics highlights an ability to simplify technical complexity for nontechnical stakeholders while maintaining methodological rigor.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Bootcamp, Data Science Bootcamp at ThinkfulDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Agricultural Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Agricultural Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
science4
python4
machine-learning3
data-analysis3
pandas3
data-science3
data-visualization2
Github contributions (5)
mariagilr/THINKFUL-DATA-SCIENCE-BOOTCAMP
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:126 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
mariagilr/Final-Capstone
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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