Steve Howard
Member Of Research Staff at The Voleon Group
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Howard is a Member of Research Staff and hybrid data scientist/software engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems and rigorous experimental methods. He holds a PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley with a dissertation on sequential testing and causal inference, and has applied that theory in production roles at The Voleon Group, LinkedIn, Optimizely, and Thumbtack. Earlier in his career he shipped platform and tooling improvements at Google (including Android components and large-scale Autotest systems) and led engineering and experimentation practices at Thumbtack. His strengths bridge software design, testability, and practical statistics—fluent in Python, R, Linux and seasoned with Java/C—and he often combines analytic depth with hands-on engineering to move research into production. A less obvious asset is his track record of institutionalizing good engineering practices (mandatory code review, testing, observability) and designing experimentation pipelines that supported hundreds of controlled trials.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (12)
testing7
javascript6
python6
python-interface5
boto3
filter3
amazon3
amazon-web-services3
bloom2
aws2
mmap1
bloom-filter1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
thumbtack/abba
Feb 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 2 years 3 months
pythontestingjavascripttest-analysisa-b
gostevehoward/absimulation
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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