Christopher Roach

Christopher Roach's work experience is as follows:

- From 2013 to present, they worked at LinkedIn, starting as a Senior Software Engineer and later transitioning to a Staff Software Engineer role. Christopher was also a Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the Anti-Abuse team, where they developed models for identifying fraudulent job postings and reduced the number of applications to such postings by 58%. Christopher conducted analyses that led to major shifts in team focus and discovered an issue that reduced the workload of human reviewers by 50%.

- In 2016, they worked as an Author for O'Reilly Media.

- From 2012 to 2013, they were a Staff Author at Envato, contributing articles and screencasts on various technologies.

- At Freshplum from 2011 to 2012, they were a Software Engineer and created a RESTful API framework in Django.

- From 2007 to 2011, they were a Software Engineer at Apple, initially working on the Online Store team, where they redesigned and rewrote the cash register responsible for processing online sales. Christopher also worked on other Apple apps, such as the shopping cart in Garage Band.

- From 2003 to 2007, they were an Embedded Software Engineer at Harris Corporation. Christopher worked on projects involving low-level embedded software engineering and customer-facing GUI development. Christopher designed the software for controlling a modem using a standard TCP socket communication and communication protocol.

- From 2000 to 2003, they were a Web Developer at Automation Creations, working on data-driven websites using Microsoft technologies and including the personal website of Virginia Tech Hokies football coach Frank Beamer.

Christopher Roach has a diverse education history. Christopher began their academic journey in 1994 at West Virginia University, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Economics and Finance. Christopher successfully completed their undergraduate studies in 1998.

In 2000, Roach enrolled at Virginia Tech, where they pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science. Christopher dedicated himself to this program for three years and successfully graduated in 2003.

Following a significant gap in their education, Roach pursued further studies in 2008 at Stanford University. Although they did not pursue a formal degree, they engaged in coursework related to Data Science and Computer Science until 2011.

In addition to their formal education, Roach obtained several certifications to enhance their skill set. In January 2015, they earned a "The Data Scientist's Toolbox" certification from Coursera Verified Certificates. In February 2015, they earned an "R Programming" certification from the same institution. Furthermore, in September 2014, Roach completed an "Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce" certification through Udacity.

Overall, Christopher Roach possesses a combination of academic and certification accomplishments that reflect their dedication to both computer science and data science fields.