Summary
Sera Mirchandani is a Senior Data Scientist in Seattle with eight years of experience applying machine learning, statistical analysis, and data visualization to drive product and business outcomes at companies like Spotify, Snap, and Microsoft. Her background in engineering mathematics and environmental engineering informs a rigorous, experiment-driven approach—she’s built retention and churn models that prevented significant user losses and redesigned onboarding funnels by combining quantitative analysis with user research. Sera has moved between industry and research settings, from predicting protein-related imaging batch effects to optimizing desalination systems, showing a knack for translating complex physical and biological problems into actionable models. Comfortable partnering with UX, engineering, and leadership, she emphasizes explainability and metric-driven roadmaps that enable long-term product decisions. A practical collaborator, she blends consulting polish with hands-on modeling and deployment experience across consumer tech and scientific domains.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Certificate, Data Science, Certificate, Data Science at Galvanize Inc