Summary
Natalie O'shea is a Staff Product Data Scientist with nine years of cross-sector experience applying advanced statistical modeling and production-grade data visualization to drive equitable, human-centered outcomes. She blends a PhD-trained researcher's rigor with product-focused delivery, having built scalable Shiny applications and analytics pipelines that saved millions in operational costs and informed strategic decisions at BetterUp and public-sector responses in NYC. Natalie excels at translating complex analyses into client-ready narratives and dashboards, partnering across engineering, design, and sales to embed reproducible, accessible insights into products. Her background in anthropology and field research gives her a distinctive lens for equity-focused metrics and community-engaged analytics, and she champions tooling and practices that make data usable for diverse stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Anthropology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Study Abroad Archaeology, Study Abroad Archaeology at University College Cork
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Anthropology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Anthropology at University of Iowa