Owen Schneider

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Chief Data Officer at Indigo Bio · SQL, Python

Indigo Bio
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
Wharton
English
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Overview

I lead fraud detection at Indigo Bio in New York. Built the trust & safety models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter. Before that: Meta and Lockheed Martin. Most at home with rules engines and graph analytics.

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Skills
graph analyticsanomaly detectionSQLLightGBMrules enginesPython

Experience

  1. Chief Data Officer
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Indigo Bio · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Caught $6 million of fraud in the first year of the new models.
    • Taught SQL to 180 non-analysts.
    • Built the trust & safety models now used in 3 product decisions a quarter.
  2. Staff Data Scientist
    May 2019 - Aug 2022
    Meta · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · New York, NY
    • Caught $9 million of fraud in the first year of the new models.
  3. Data Analyst
    Jan 2018 - May 2019
    Lockheed Martin · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Replaced 111 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Senior Data Scientist
    Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Built the trust & safety models now used in 6 product decisions a quarter.
    • Replaced 46 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  5. Data Analyst
    Jul 2013 - Mar 2016
    Nike · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Replaced 78 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

Projects

Open-source anomaly detection toolkit
2025

A small library for fraud detection that 314 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a habit tracker
2022

Built with rules engines and graph analytics. 3539 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Wharton
    MBA, Business Administration
    2003 - 2005
  2. Arizona State University
    BS, Mathematics
    1997 - 2001

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