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Owen Dean

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Data Scientist at Etsy · NLP

Works at
Etsy
Location
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
Experience
5+ years experience
Education
Penn State
Languages
English, Arabic

Overview

I've spent 5 years on NLP - first at Deloitte, now at Etsy. Built the language models now used in 7 product decisions a quarter. Previously at Deloitte. Chess on lunch breaks.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about NLP
  • Second opinions on transformers decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Data broker offers
  • Crypto token projects

Fastest replies in the morning

Skills
PythonPyTorchtransformersinformation retrieval

Experience

  1. Data Scientist
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Etsy · 3 yr · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Replaced 118 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 157 non-analysts.
  2. Data Analyst
    Oct 2021 - Nov 2023
    Deloitte · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Taught SQL to 83 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 95 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from language
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling NLP.

Write-up: NLP in practice
2022

A long-form guide to NLP for people starting out.

References

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Education

  1. Penn State
    BS, Computer Science
    2016 - 2020

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