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Gabriel Walker
Senior Data Scientist with experience in problem framing, experiments, models, and measurable decisions. Practical work includes Python, SQL, Experimentation, Causal inference.
Experience
Amazon
Seattle · United States
Senior Data Scientist
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, used SQL and Python to study seller retention, separating new-seller cohorts from established shops and checking seasonality; reported uncertainty rather than treating a correlation as a causal effect.
- With responsibility for the review standard, built Looker dashboards from the research dataset with documented cohort definitions and drill-through samples; reconciled dashboard totals to the source queries before sharing recommendations.
- Separated training and evaluation data by time and customer, inspected leakage in derived features, and compared model performance across cohorts before recommending an experiment.
- Built a Python machine learning baseline for repeat-purchase prediction, split observations by customer and time, and compared calibration and recall with a simple statistical baseline before presenting the model recommendation.
- Prepared an experiment readout with confidence intervals, cohort-level diagnostics and a data visualization of the pre-test trend; checked sample-ratio mismatch and explained when the evidence did not justify rollout.
- Owned a forecasting evaluation using time-based splits in Python, reducing holdout error from 19% to 15% against the same seasonal baseline and recording cohort failures.
- Published a Tableau evaluation dashboard using SQL-validated inputs, resolving differences between data-pipeline totals and the statistics presented to decision makers.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Data Scientist
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Built a demand forecast with promotion and holiday effects for 26 regions; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, kept the improvement stable through the follow-up review.
- Investigated a discrepancy between a published metric and its source records, traced the transformation that changed the population, and corrected the calculation with a reproducible query.
- Compared the last successful data refresh with a failed run, separated missing source data from transformation errors, and reran only the affected interval. Kept the original query and corrected result together for review.
Selected project
Data Scientist — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Reconciled three conflicting definitions of active supply into one governed metric; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Generated synthetic source records with duplicates, late arrivals and corrected values; wrote assertions for row counts and key uniqueness, and recorded the expected effect of each case on the reported metric.
- Compared the analytical output with a manually calculated reference table, traced differences to a transformation step, and retained a data dictionary and rerun instructions alongside the corrected query.
- Owned the synthetic-data validation using a manually calculated reference, resolved duplicate-key inflation and completed a notebook that reproduces the corrected totals.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
Python · SQL · Experimentation · Causal inference · Machine learning · Data visualization
Certifications
Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Nov 2023
Publications
- Published an independent methods note using reproducible queries, explaining the data grain, excluded records and sensitivity of the result to a changed denominator.


