Summary
Phillip Labuschagne is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building production analytics and research solutions across epidemiology, bioinformatics, insurance and retail, and is currently applying his skills at DoorDash in Sunnyvale. He combines strong statistical foundations (BSc Hons in Mathematical Statistics and a PhD in Bioinformatics) with practical engineering—Python, R, PySpark, SQL, Linux and cloud (GCP/AWS)—to take models from research to deployed pipelines. His background includes influential HIV timing estimators and bioinformatics pipelines that shortened processing from days to hours, as well as recommender systems and operational models supported by Airflow and big-data tooling. Phillip uniquely bridges domain research and productionization, having authored epidemiological submissions for policy and automated reporting solutions that cut delivery time from weeks to days.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of the Western Cape
University of Pretoria