Ross Beck-macneil
Senior Data Scientist
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRoss Beck-macneil is a Senior Data Scientist in Ottawa with nine years of experience blending computer science and economics to extract actionable insights from large financial and price datasets. He led implementation of machine learning— including a TensorFlow neural network—to modernize Canada's Consumer Price Index and managed weekly 5+ GB scanner data pipelines and large-scale web scraping. Ross is skilled in Python, SQL, SAS, VBA and productionizing models, and has applied those tools across federal institutions such as Statistics Canada and the Treasury Board Secretariat. His dual masters—from UBC in Economics and Penn in Computer and Information Technology—give him a rare combination of econometric rigor and engineering pragmatism. Colleagues rely on him for turning messy transactional feeds into auditable, policy-ready indexes and reports. Beyond modeling, he focuses on robust data engineering and reproducibility when integrating novel data sources into official statistics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Graduated with distinction, Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Graduated with distinction at Western UniversityMaster of Arts, Economics, Master of Arts, Economics at The University of British ColumbiaMaster's degree, Computer and Information Technology, Master's degree, Computer and Information Technology at University of Pennsylvania
English, French
Stackoverflow
21reputation
611reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (14)
lora8
sas6
llm6
fine-tuning6
llama5
mistral4
gemma3
django1
open-source1
python1
creative-commons1
solr1
open-government1
portal1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rossbm/udacity-ml-capstone
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
rossbm/591-mono
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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