Timothy Chan
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Chan is a data and product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience, now a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after serving as VP of Data and a founding data lead at Statsig. He has deep expertise in experimentation, metrics-driven product decisions, and data strategy honed building Statsig’s experimentation product and evangelizing A/B testing across teams. Prior roles at Facebook spanned gaming and Reality Labs AI Assistant work, reflecting experience applying data science to both consumer products and cutting-edge research. Timothy’s early career in biotech and medicinal chemistry (Ph.D. in Chemistry) and an MBA give him a rare combination of scientific rigor and business judgment that informs how he frames experiments and measures impact. Based in Kirkland, WA, he is comfortable translating complex statistical methods into scalable production systems and product-facing insights. Less obvious: his background designing clinical drug candidates and directing lab teams contributes a disciplined, experimental mindset to product analytics and decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Chemistry, B.Sc., Chemistry at University of AlbertaPh.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at Scripps ResearchMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship at Boston University
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Github Skills (13)
python9
statistics9
machine-learning8
data-analysis8
data-science8
scikit7
scikit-learn7
zipf6
pandas6
seaborn6
hypothesis-tests6
matplotlib6
ab-testing6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
trchan/boston-marathon
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:94 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
trchan/Getting-and-Cleaning-Data-Assignment
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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