Carter Wade

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Staff Data Scientist at Microsoft · Experimentation

Microsoft
Vancouver, BC · PT (UTC-8)
9+ years experience
Concordia University
English
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Staff Data Scientist at Microsoft, focused on experimentation. Ran 260 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve. Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 4 days. Most at home with Python and SQL. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on experimentation
  • Second opinions on A/B testing decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
PythonA/B testingrecommender systemscausal inferenceSQL
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: experimentation and recommender systems

Topics
experimentation, A/B testing, causal inference
Format
Office hours
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

9 years of experimentation. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Vancouver, BCa/b testingcausal inferencepython
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Data Scientist
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Microsoft · 1 yr · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Taught SQL to 94 non-analysts.
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 6 days.
  2. Data Scientist
    May 2023 - Oct 2025
    EY · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 45 non-analysts.
  3. Data Scientist
    Jul 2019 - May 2023
    Lululemon · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Ran 158 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
  4. Data Analyst
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
    Ubisoft · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Vancouver, BC
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Ran 232 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.

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Education

  1. Concordia University
    BEng, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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