Elias Wade

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Director of Data Science at Verge Logistics · NLP

Verge Logistics
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
14+ years experience
Ivey Business School
English
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Overview

14 years in data science and analytics, the last 4 at Verge Logistics, where I lead the language team. Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Skills
PythonevaluationtransformersPyTorch
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Looking for an analytics engineer who has worked on transformers at scale

Role
Analytics engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$180k-$245k
Team
Language, 12 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with transformers Production experience with Python Clear written communication
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp C$153k-C$214k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Director of Data Science
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Verge Logistics · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Replaced 57 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 60 non-analysts.
  2. Staff Data Scientist
    Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
    PwC · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  3. Senior Data Scientist
    Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
    KPMG · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Taught SQL to 150 non-analysts.
  4. Data Analyst
    Jun 2014 - Apr 2017
    Google · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 108 non-analysts.
  5. Data Analyst
    Oct 2012 - Jun 2014
    Electronic Arts · 1 yr 8 mo · Contract · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 95 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. Ivey Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. Queen's University
    BCom, Mathematics
    2008 - 2012

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