Michael Dowd
Senior Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Dowd is a Senior Data Scientist in Seattle with 11 years of experience applying data science to civic tech, social impact, and transportation problems. He has led and delivered end-to-end data products—from automated ETL pipelines and Tableau/Looker dashboards to generative-AI chatbots—while often serving as the sole data scientist on cross-functional teams. His background in transportation planning and city planning (MS from MIT) informs pragmatic modeling and data collection work, including large-scale travel demand models, web scraping for route-level travel times, and automation of GIS workflows. At DataKind he scoped and technically led 20+ volunteer projects, translating complex technical solutions for non-technical partners and maintaining deployed tools. Comfortable in AWS, Airflow, Python, and modern LLM toolchains, he blends production engineering discipline with a strong record of pro-bono and mission-driven impact. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to turn messy, policy-relevant municipal data into reliable, reusable products that inform decisions across ventures and grantees.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Transportation and Master in City Planning, Civil Engineering / City and Regional Planning, Master of Science in Transportation and Master in City Planning, Civil Engineering / City and Regional Planning at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Urban Studies/Affairs, Bachelor's degree, Urban Studies/Affairs at City University of New York-Hunter College
Github Skills (17)
mvp9
risk-assessment6
python6
routes5
data-science5
explore4
optimization3
data-analytics3
data-quality3
tableau3
openstreetmap3
operations-research3
data-management3
dataframe2
pandas2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emersoncollective/data-repo-mvp
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
MVP Repo for Data Repo project.
Contributions:109 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
pythonmvpdata-science
datakind/ccep_vote_center_siting_tool_beta
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 172 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
data-explorerexplorerfacilityvoting
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