Shawn Purcell

Head of Data Science and Co-founder at SignalRank

Shawn Purcell has a long and varied work experience. In 2021, they became the Head of Data Science and Co-founder at SignalRank, which supports the best seed managers to maintain their equity positions in their best portfolio companies. From 2017 to 2021, they were the Founder of Liquid Data, a no-code/low-code productivity assistant for data scientists. In 2016, they were a Senior Data Scientist at Twitter. From 2014 to 2016, they were a Principal Engineer in Search Science at Quixey. From 2011 to 2014, they were the Founder of DataSimp.ly. From 2009 to 2011, they were the Manager of Search Assistance (Search Relevance) at A9.com. From 2005 to 2009, they were the Founder of Scrappy Enterprises. From 2003 to 2005, they were the Engineering Manager of CineMatch Movie Recommendations (head of CineMatch) at Netflix. From 1996 to 2003, they were a Technical Yahoo at Yahoo!.

Shawn Purcell completed a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences/CS from Stanford University.

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  • Head of Data Science and Co-founder

    January, 2021 - present

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