Joseph A.

Joseph A. has a diverse range of work experience, starting with their role as a Product Manager at ReefEdge, Inc. from February 2001 to February 2003. Joseph then worked as a Consultant at Inductis, Inc. from February 2003 to April 2004, where they contributed to short-term strategy consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies, involving competitive research, financial modeling, and statistical modeling.

From August 2004 to April 2008, Joseph served as a Senior Product Researcher and later as a Senior Product Manager at VeriSign, Inc., where they worked on product management and research.

Following this, from May 2008 to February 2009, they worked as an Operations Engineer at Netflix, focusing on developing improved algorithms for disc distribution between data centers. Joseph'scontribution to reducing the number of discs in active circulation led to significant cost savings.

Joseph then became a Product Development Consultant at Recombinant Data from March 2009 to March 2010, followed by working as a Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn from March 2010 to April 2014. In this role, they managed the platform team in data science, leading various projects such as a comprehensive study of email usage at LinkedIn and introducing Hadoop to the decision science team.

From April 2014 to August 2015, Joseph served as the Director of Product Management at Interana. Joseph then moved to Confluent, where they worked as the Director of Product Management and Data Science from September 2015 to August 2016.

Currently, they hold the position of Tech Lead, Data Analytics at Facebook, starting from September 2016.

Additionally, throughout their career, Joseph has also authored two books on data science, specifically focusing on R language and machine learning, published by O'Reilly Media in September 2004.

Joseph A. earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1992 to 1996. Joseph then pursued a Master of Engineering (M. Eng) degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1996 to 1997. Prior to their college education, Joseph attended Montclair Kimberley Academy, although no specific degree or field of study information is available for that period.