Natalia Timakova
Data Analyst
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalia Timakova is a data analyst with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience applying analytics and product insight to EdTech, journalism, wikis, retail AI and fintech. Currently at Google and mentoring at Pathrise, she blends rigorous ML-oriented analysis with product sensibility to improve user trust and outcomes—most notably uncovering a labeling bug at Wikimedia that boosted classifier AUC from 90.9% to 92.8%. Her background as an investigative journalist and editor for energy markets informs a knack for turning messy, real-world data into clear, actionable narratives for executives and engineers alike. Comfortable with Python, SQL, YAML/JSON and visualization, she has delivered solutions ranging from grocery-sales elasticity models to hedge-fund reporting and AI-assisted consumer features. Based in Mountain View with a Master’s from UC Berkeley School of Information, she is especially driven by products that advance education, independent media, and knowledge sharing.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Technology, 3.78, Master’s Degree, Information Technology, 3.78 at UC Berkeley School of InformationGeneral Studies: Science, 3.85, General Studies: Science, 3.85 at Foothill CollegeAssociate's degree, Major: Structure, historical development, and relationships of languages; Minor: Teaching, Associate's degree, Major: Structure, historical development, and relationships of languages; Minor: Teaching at Sakhalin State UniversityBA, MA, Journalism, with honors, BA, MA, Journalism, with honors at Russian State Social University (former Moscow State Social University)
Github Skills (30)
six5
pdf5
wikipedia5
react-component4
supervised-learning4
react4
web-development3
artificial-intelligence3
javascript3
tsup3
mysql3
vite3
typescript3
css3
pdf-viewer3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FajneFarita/SmartGiving_web
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 month
FajneFarita/Looking-for-a-Needle-in-a-Haystack-Predicting-Wikipedia-Edits
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years
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