Ruochen Chen
Ruochen Chen
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Bio

Motivated Data Scientist/ML Engineer with robust analytics and research experience. Skills include machine learning (tree-based models, regression, recommendation systems, PCA, SVM, KNN/K means, NLP, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn), deep learning (tensorflow, keras, PyTorch, OpenCV), statistics (probability, sampling, hypothesis testing, causal inference), programming (Python, R, SQL, Java), big data (Spark, Hadoop, Hive), cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow), BI (Tableau, Looker, DOMO, Power BI, Retool), and other tools (GitHub, Confluence, DSX, Jira, etc.). Passionate about data-driven projects and mentoring learners.

Portals
Categories
Data visualization Data analysis Marketing analytics Machine learning Data science

Skills

Data science 1 Machine learning 1 Python (programming language) 1

Achievements

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Recent projects

Work experience

Senior Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer
Zenni Optical
November 2023 - Current

โ— Built and deployed Marketing Mixture Models using LMMM (in Python) & Robyn (in R) to help optimize marketing
spending strategies in GCP and Databricks; displayed results in Looker visualizations for business stakeholders.
โ— Planned and conducted Incrementality testing strategies using Geolift in R to evaluate the true impacts of a given channel.

Data Science/Engineering Freelancer
MountE Cousulting
May 2022 - November 2023

โ— Computer Vision Models: Helped the client add a gaming layer in tennis live streams to improve fan engagement. Tested different ways to strengthen the game engine using computer vision. Self-learned, created, and tuned deep learning model
prototypes using tensorflow/keras and pytorch to identify scoreboard changes and camera shifts for game system resets.
โ— Recommendation Engine: Mined user data (3M+ users) and product features (80+ products) in Snowflake and Databricks, and
created ML models/recommendation engines to improve customer experiences and engagement when browsing products.
โ— Data Pipeline Creation: Created a data pipeline in Python for Ad Spend Optimizations on the clientโ€™s acquired brands on the Walmart website. Web-scraped product reviews from the Walmart website daily using AWS Lambda and ingested data into the
PostgreSQL database; presented outcomes on Tableau and triggered alerts based on the ad spend requirements.
โ— Network Analysis: Processed thousands of browsing data from Yelp users using pandas and constructed network graphs using
networkX, pyvis to find which restaurants are viewed together more often, to build a recommendation system.
โ— Retool BI Dashboards: Created multiple dashboards in Retool to monitor daily KPI status by extracting and aggregating data in
MySQL. Connected a โ€œfeedbackโ€ dashboard with the database through a webhook for team leads to monitor real-time feedback.

Data Scientist
Rocket Innovation Studio
June 2021 - May 2022

โ— Created data pipeline for lead delivery to the companyโ€™s 3rd-party mortgage agents using Pyspark and AWS Glue; tested API calls
using Postman; conducted A/B testing to compare the conversion between the experiment and control groups.
โ— Generated $55 million extra closing volume in the first 4 months of implementation.

Senior Data Scientist/Data Scientist
Propel Holdings
December 2017 - June 2021

โ— Improved the efficiency and accuracy of the underwriting process by solely initiating and completing 3 end-to-end ML products
for evaluating and predicting customersโ€™ engagement and credibility.
โ— Worked with data from 10+ sources and built executable functions that contained data preparation, model building & selections
in Python and R; monitored model performances using DOMO; set up the data and ML pipeline using Jenkins.
โ— Saved $20k per month and greatly improved major KPIs (conversion%, default%) by optimizing customer selection strategies.

Education

Part-time MBA, Business
University of Toronto
August 2024 - Current
Bachelor, Applied Statistics
University of Toronto
September 2013 - June 2017

Personal projects

MountE Counsulting
April 2022 - Current
https://www.mounteconsulting.com/

This is the website of my personal consulting firm. It contains the project areas that I can help with and a list of happy clients I have partnered with. Check it out!