Patrick Staples
Principal Data Scientist And Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Staples is a Principal Data Scientist and Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience applying biostatistics and machine learning to mental health and life sciences products. With a PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard and roles spanning academia and industry—from postdoctoral research and course creation at Harvard to leadership positions at Alto Neuroscience and Compass Pathways—he bridges rigorous statistical thinking with product-driven engineering. He has led teams and technical strategy as VP of Data Science and currently teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies, signaling both leadership and commitment to knowledge transfer. His background includes building data-centric products at startups like Mindstrong and Migo, where clinical insight met scalable analytics. Patrick’s work is driven by a clear long-term orientation toward societal impact, combining deep domain expertise with hands-on productionization of models and data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Statistics Mathematics, B.S. Statistics Mathematics at Brigham Young UniversityPh.D. Biostatistics, Ph.D. Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (2)
markdown9
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ctphoenix/ctphoenix.github.io
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
My personal website.
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
ctphoenix/Callitri
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
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