Taylor Leach
Senior Manager Of Data Science And Causal Inference
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Leach is a Senior Manager of Data Science and Causal Inference with 12 years of experience translating messy real-world data into actionable insights, currently leading causal and analytics work at Tala in Greater Boston. With a PhD in Ecology and a background in freshwater ecology, Taylor uniquely blends rigorous experimental and time-series thinking with applied machine learning and geospatial analysis. They have progressed through technical and leadership roles—from Data Scientist to senior manager—designing pragmatic solutions for noisy observational and experimental datasets. Taylor’s work includes building large-scale SQL-backed analyses and predictive models in high-impact domains, and they have a track record of improving decision efficiency through careful causal reasoning. Colleagues describe them as someone who enjoys untangling complex systems and bringing scientific rigor to business problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology, BA Biology at Middlebury CollegePhD Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology, PhD Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology at Miami University
Github Skills (3)
analyzer8
machine-learning1
python1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
leachth/ReadEKRaw_updated
May 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
leachth/ReadEKRaw
May 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
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