Jessica Julia Park

Head of Data at Pillar Health · Recommendation systems · embeddings, recommender systems

Pillar Health

Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)

13+ years experience

Queen's University

English

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Overview

I lead recommendation systems at Pillar Health in Toronto. Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker. Before that: Accenture and Canadian Tire. Most at home with ranking and recommender systems. Collector of fountain pens.

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cold-chain monitoring for shipping lines

The idea: Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cold-chain monitoring for shipping lines
Stage: Customer interviews
I bring: 5 years in recommendation systems
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time after funding
Location: Toronto or remote

I bring 18 years of recommendation systems (currently Pillar Health). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Toronto, ONpythonrecommender systemsranking

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Experience

Head of Data
Jan 2024 - Present
Pillar Health · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Built the recommendations models now used in 9 product decisions a quarter.
- Taught SQL to 43 non-analysts.
Staff Data Scientist
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
Accenture · 3 yr · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 8.2%.
- Built the recommendations models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.
Data Scientist
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Canadian Tire · 3 yr · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 3.1%.
- Taught SQL to 199 non-analysts.
Senior Data Scientist
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Shopify · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Replaced 62 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Data Analyst
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
TD Bank · 2 yr · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Taught SQL to 189 non-analysts.

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Education

Queen's University
BCom, Mathematics
2003 - 2007

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