Wesley Murphy

Head of Data, Canopy Logistics - causal inference · Bayesian statistics · A/B testing

Canopy Logistics

Philadelphia, PA · ET (UTC-5)

12+ years experience

University of Pennsylvania

English

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Head of Data at Canopy Logistics, focused on experimentation. Built the experimentation models now used in 3 product decisions a quarter. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Mastercard. Most at home with information retrieval and causal inference.

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Bayesian statisticsinformation retrievalA/B testingcausal inferencePython

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Hiring a senior data scientist for the experimentation team - Philadelphia

Role: Senior data scientist
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $124k-$167k
Team: Experimentation, 11 people
Start: This quarter
Must have: Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $209k-$314k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Office hours for students choosing a first job: experimentation and information retrieval

Topics: experimentation, information retrieval, causal inference
Format: Office hours
Terms: Equity
Capacity: One advisory role at a time
Best for: First-time founders

21 years of experimentation. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Philadelphia, PAa/b testingbayesian statisticscausal inference

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Experience

Head of Data
Apr 2025 - Present
Canopy Logistics · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 3 weeks to 6 days.
- Built the experimentation models now used in 9 product decisions a quarter.
Analytics Manager
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Replaced 71 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 4 weeks to 3 days.
Staff Data Scientist
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
Mastercard · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Ran 292 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
- Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 3 days.
Analytics Manager
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
IBM · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Built the experimentation models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.
- Replaced 96 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Analytics Manager
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Microsoft · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Ran 45 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
- Taught SQL to 198 non-analysts.

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Experimentation benchmark

2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing causal inference and Bayesian statistics on real workloads.

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Education

University of Pennsylvania
BS, Mathematics
2001 - 2005

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