Marina Shabanov
Head Of Marketing & CX Lead at Litmaps
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMarina Shabanov is a data-driven product and marketing leader with eight years of experience bridging machine learning research and user-focused growth. Currently Head of Marketing & CX at Litmaps, she scaled acquisition and engagement channels from scratch—growing top-of-funnel by 400% and supporting a community of over a million researchers and students. With an MS in Computer Science and hands-on research in astronomical transient classification and probabilistic hyperspectral mineralogy, she uniquely combines technical ML expertise (Python, MCMC, KDE) with content and community strategy. She has built large-scale learning programs and content ecosystems—newsletters of 125k+ subscribers, workshops of 3k+ attendees, and institutional sales—while maintaining freelance science writing that translates complex research for broader audiences. Based in Wellington, she pairs rigorous academic research with practical product execution, and maintains reproducible research codebases that reflect her commitment to open, verifiable science.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaVirginia Tech
Github Skills (8)
transient10
classification9
machine-learning7
visualize2
visualization2
dataframes2
altair1
data-visualization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
marinakiseleva/spectral_analysis
Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:187 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
marinakiseleva/NADE
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimation
Contributions:19 pushes in 7 months
classificationdeep-learningmachine-learningestimationneural-network
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