Brett Price

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Head of Data, Fern Grid - Python · Spark · recommender systems

Fern Grid
Austin, TX · CT (UTC-6)
14+ years experience
Harvard University
English
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Overview

Based in Austin. I lead recommendation systems at Fern Grid. Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 9.3%. Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week. Before that: MongoDB and Comcast.

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Skills
PyTorchembeddingsrecommender systemsSparkrankingPython

Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Fern Grid · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
    • Replaced 47 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  2. Analytics Manager
    Jul 2020 - Apr 2023
    MongoDB · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Replaced 79 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
  3. Staff Data Scientist
    Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
    Comcast · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Data Scientist
    Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
    Snowflake · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
  5. Data Scientist
    Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
    PayPal · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

Projects

Recommendation systems benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing ranking and Spark on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Harvard University
    AB, Economics
    2005 - 2009

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