Richard Downey
Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Downey is a senior Data Scientist and hands-on leader with 19+ years of experience applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning to drive growth and profitability across retail, telecommunications, financial services, and social media. He blends technical depth in Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Spark, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) with strong stakeholder influence, regularly advising C-suite clients and shaping product roadmaps. Richard has led and scaled distributed Data Science and Engineering teams, designed causal inference and experimental approaches for revenue-impact decisions, and built production ML pipelines and personalization systems that materially improved market share and margins. He excels at translating complex analytics into actionable executive recommendations while remaining an active practitioner who builds data products and personal projects to stay current with cutting-edge tools. Based in San Francisco, he brings a growth mindset and a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes from both consultancy and in-house roles, including leadership positions at BCG Gamma, dunnhumby, Instagram, and RADAR. An uncommon strength is his consistent role as a player/coach who pairs strategic influence with hands-on model development and deployment.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Marketing / Management Science, BA (Hons), Marketing / Management Science at University of StrathclydeMaster of Science - MS, Operational Reserach, Master of Science - MS, Operational Reserach at Lancaster University
Github Skills (16)
pipeline5
amazon5
aws4
recommender3
machine-learning3
sagemaker3
data-science3
amazon-sagemaker2
recommender-system2
airflow2
python2
mlops1
spark1
capstone1
nano1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ifu97224/grocery_recommender
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
A recommender system for grocery store recommendations
Contributions:2 PRs, 86 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
grocery-storepythongroceryrecommenderrecommendations
ifu97224/Machine_Learning_Engineer_Nano_Degree
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 release, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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