Ryan Dalton is a Senior Data Science Manager and technical lead in San Francisco with 8 years of experience translating advanced ML and data engineering into measurable revenue and subscription growth across Apple media services. He blends rigorous academic training—a PhD in Neuroscience and a prestigious Miller Fellowship at UC Berkeley—with hands-on product work, from building production ML pipelines and dashboards to designing datasets and executive-facing communications. Previously he led data science at Alo Yoga and delivered ML-based inventory and platform optimization at Stitch Fix, plus a track record of deploying NLP and computer vision models in production. Beyond corporate roles he’s an entrepreneurial builder—co-founding a brewery project that combined hardware and Python automation—and an educator who started a nonprofit academy, reflecting a penchant for cross-disciplinary teams and scalable workflow automation.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biology, Summa Cum Laude, BS, Biology, Summa Cum Laude at University of Oregon
Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher at Tsinghua University
Joint PhD with Columbia University, Neuroscience, Joint PhD with Columbia University, Neuroscience at University of California, San Francisco
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