Den Thap

Data scientist in Marketplace org, developing products to promote shopping on Facebook. Worked with product and ranking teams to identify most relevant stories for shoppers on News Feed and other channels. Set and drove product goals and experimental (A-B Testing) designs. Identified areas of opportunity in growth and conversions through data analysis and creating data pipelines from Facebook’s massive databases.

Primary analyst on FarmVille 2: Country Escape and Words with Friends. Managed and led junior analysts across both studios. Analyzed player behavior that helped drive product decisions and led Country Escape reach top 10 grossing in both iOS and Google Play stores. Created daily forecast models that allowed the team to react nimbly to trend changes in game

Developed candidate scoring system to surface up best candidates for recruiters and partners. Built infrastructure and service from scratch using UNIX, python machine learning packages and Flask framework.

Employed SAS, programming, and statistical training to provide backend support for website and analysis within Analytics group. Consumer trends analysis have been reported on major new organizations, such as NPR, Consumer Reports, and New York Times. Used statistical and programming skills to generate automotive industry performance and sales forecast. Used spatial analysis to improve pricing model estimations at local levels.

Utilized toxicological and air quality models to assist long term risk at small and large developments (>1000 residential and commercial units). Developed extensive databases of toxicological and chemical properties of compounds for company analyses.