Maya Fürst

Maya Fürst has a diverse work experience spanning from 2008 to the present. Maya started their career in the Israel Defense Forces in 2008, serving as a Lieutenant until 2012. In 2014, Maya worked as a Marketing Analyst at FirstOffer, where they focused on establishing and expanding affiliates worldwide and analyzing reports. Maya then transitioned to Deloitte Strategy Israel (formerly Trigger-Foresight) in 2015 for a practicum role.

In 2016, Maya joined McKinsey & Company for a strategic consulting practicum in the Public Sector Division, where they led a project for Israel's National Cyber Bureau. During the same year, they also worked as a Teaching Assistant for Mr. Gideon Frank's Nuclear Energy Course at IDC Herzliya.

Maya's next significant role was with Twiggle in 2017, where they served as a Knowledge Engineer, building and maintaining the product ontology for Twiggle's semantic API. Maya quickly moved up to become a Knowledge Engineering Team Leader, managing a team of five Knowledge Engineers. Maya also took on the role of Tech Lead Knowledge Engineer in the Algorithm Team, performing advanced data analysis and developing data-driven applications using SQL, Tableau, Python, and Pandas.

In 2020, Maya joined Google as a Data Analyst, specifically for the Waze BI team. Their responsibilities included providing quantitative and advanced statistical support for experiments, funnels, and features. Maya worked with various dataset types, including geospatial information, and utilized their skills in data analysis.

Currently, Maya is serving as a Data Lead at Simply (formerly JoyTunes) since 2021.

Maya Fürst completed their Bachelor's degree in the Honor's Track program in Strategy and Decision Making at Reichman University. Maya attended the university from 2013 to 2016.