Will High
Vice President, Data
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill High is a data science leader with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing ML systems across product, growth, and underwriting domains, currently serving as VP of Data Science at Tala in Portland. He combines a PhD-level research background in physics with hands-on expertise in causal inference, experimentation, and real-time model serving, having led ML teams at Netflix, Discord, and high-growth startups. Will focuses on predictive and causal approaches that drive product decisions and core underwriting, and he champions statistical rigor across experimentation and deployment. A practical systems thinker, he has repeatedly moved models from research to production at scale and has a track record of translating complex scientific problems into business impact.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA highest honors, BA highest honors at University of California, BerkeleyPhD Physics, PhD Physics at Harvard University
Github Skills (16)
nlp6
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
ai6
python6
text-classification6
cython6
natural-language-processing6
data-science5
named-entity-recognition5
spacy5
imputation5
deep-learning5
neural-network4
entity-linking3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
California-Data-Collaborative/waterd
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:47 commits in 4 months
fwhigh/sdbootstrap
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 3 months
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