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DOUGLAS SHERK

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DATA SCIENCE | BUSINESS | ENGINEERING

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HIGHLIGHTS & SUMMARY Ex-Mozilla, ex-Zynga, data scientist, software engineer, tech lead, product manager. - Pursuing a career in data science and data engineering with a background in software engineering - Advising startups on tackling data challenges and bottlenecks, driving $400K revenue - As an engineer, shipped code to 100M+ users (Mozilla), drove $2M+ revenue at SV-based companies (Mozilla, Zynga)

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WORK EXPERIENCE Self-Employed

Data Science & Data Engineering Consultant

2016 – Present World

Python, SciKit, R — Building production-grade predictive analytics systems - Generated $100K/yr revenue with Instagram gender, location, personality classifiers - Built a Craigslist post classifier for business with 100K+ unclassified posts - Advised startup on data and engineering to go from $300K/yr to $1M/yr revenue

Mozilla

Product Manager – Firefox OS Spark

2015 San Francisco

HTML5, JS, CSS – Product lead for data gathering and prototyping in Firefox OS - Designed algorithms and legal requirements for capturing 1Bn+ records of analytics - Managed this project personally for the CEO of Mozilla, met with him weekly - Architected new features and tools for testing on users

Tech Lead – Firefox OS Telephony

2014 San Francisco

HTML5, JS, CSS – Lead of the telephony subsystem of the Firefox OS front-end - Implemented project management processes to turn talented but disorganized team of 10 from missing every deadline for a year to always shipping on-time

Software Engineer – Firefox OS

2014 Toronto

C++, JS, CSS – Telephony peer and Gecko platform improvements for Firefox OS - Improved performance of Firefox OS keyboard by 50% skipping unnecessary repainting - Implemented telephony features such as dialing from the call log and dual-SIM support - Improved low-level inter-process communication and panning/zooming modules

SciGit

Co-Founder and CTO

2013 Waterloo

PHP, AngularJS, MongoDB, Git – Product lead for science collaboration startup - Built website on top of Git to track changes to science papers and provide publishing tools - Grew to 1K daily active users and raised $50K in seed funding

Mozilla

Software Engineer Intern – Firefox

2011 - 2012 San Francisco

C++, WebGL – Two-time intern, Firefox OS panning/zooming, part of Firefox WebGL -

Rewrote Firefox feature detection and analytics code to track 30M+ user feature availability Architected Firefox OS async panning/zooming, improved ~5M users’ app perf. by 10x Directly mentored by one of the most senior engineers at the company Achieved “Outstanding” rating both times, the highest possible for an internship

Zynga

Software Engineer Intern – FarmVille

2011 San Francisco

JS, ActionScript, SQL – Growth & analytics feature engineering - Developed growth features that directly generated $2M+ in revenue - Worked directly with product managers and designers to understand their revenue goals

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EDUCATION

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Harvard

Data Science Certificate

2017 - Present Online

Harvard Extension School Student - (Grade: A) CS 165: Data Systems. Building a relational database system. Described by staff as a “full-time job” and “requiring all you learned about CS” (Grade: A) STAT 150: Intermediate Statistics and Modeling. Learning about multiple regression, ANOVA, model assumptions, and logistic regression

Coursera

Data Science and Machine Learning Specialization Student

2017 Online

Machine Learning by Stanford University, Data Science by John Hopkins U - Completed Andrew Ng’s “Machine Learning” class and used knowledge in consulting Completed John Hopkins University’s “Data Science Specialization.

UWaterloo

B.A.Sc., Mechatronics Engineering, Honours Co-op

2008 - 2013 Waterloo

Class webmaster and one of three student class reps at faculty meetings - Relevant classes credited in: Machine Intelligence, Linear Algebra, Concurrent and Parallel Programming, Experimental Measurement & Statistical Analysis, Algorithms and Data Structures

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES & SKILLS EXPERT

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PROFICIENT

Python JavaScript (+ES2017) SQL (Postgres, MySQL) HTML/CSS (+SASS) Git C, C++ Ruby on Rails NodeJS + Express

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SciKit AWS (EC2, ELB, S3) Git ReactJS Linux + Bash jQuery Sketch UX/UI Design

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Java AngularJS WebGL C# Docker Redis ActionScript Photoshop

SIDE PROJECTS Apollo RP

Project Founder and Lead Engineer

2008 - 2011

C & SQL – Distributed data storage and analytics mod for multiplayer game Half-Life - Crafted analytics system for analyzing user behavior over dozens of distributed servers - Built plugin API with 12 developers, 50 plugins, 500 community members, and 5K+ users

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MISCELLANEOUS MOZILLA - Was owner of 3 modules - Was peer of 5 modules

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UWATERLOO - Was VeloCity entrepreneur campus resident - Got Facebook hackathon honorable mention

FREE TIME - Took Designlab 101, Branding class - Read 10 business books last year

LANGUAGES English – Native

Mandarin Chinese – Limited Working Proficiency

French – Elementary