Summary
Robert Merriman is a Senior Data Product Manager with a 10+ year focus on data science and a 25+ year career building and leading engineering, test, and data teams at Microsoft and now Zoom. He combines deep technical fluency—from full‑stack engineering to anomaly detection and ML for security—with a talent for synthesizing customer scenarios into actionable data products and experiments that drive product quality and launch outcomes. A seasoned people leader and mentor, he has repeatedly grown and relocated teams globally, built cross-functional workstreams, and helped data scientists and engineers advance their careers. His work includes securing engineering systems with user-behavior classifiers, powering Windows Insider Program analytics, and detecting post‑breach attackers through compound anomaly models. Based in Redmond, he blends rigorous academic grounding (BA/BS in Physics/Math/Accounting; MS in Data Science) with a pragmatic builder’s instinct—often stepping into ambiguous situations to create measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at University of Washington
BA & BS, Physics, Math, Accounting, BA & BS, Physics, Math, Accounting at University of Puget Sound