Rory Nolan

Senior Software Engineer @ Mirvie

About

I am a Ph.D. educated professional data scientist with experience providing the leadership and direction needed to drive the achievement of key organizational business goals and objectives. I am able to leverage data science and business intelligence architecture best practices with innovation to deliver frameworks to organize data and to extract meaning from and interpret data. In addition, I bring proven strength building and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with strategic business partners based on the effectiveness of the business solutions delivered. I am continually recognized for the ability to provide impactful results while leading in fast-paced, dynamic business environments. Areas of Expertise Include: Business Solutions • Organizational Data Science Leadership • Service Excellence Hypothesis & A/B Testing • Database Queries • Machine Learning & Algorithms Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Biostatistics Best Practices • Data Science & Mining Strategic Business Partnerships • Data Analysis & Reporting • Strategy & Execution Data Modeling & Visualization • Stakeholder Communication • Relational Databases

Country

United States

City

South San Francisco

Industry

Biotechnology

Skill

Version Control, Code Review, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Terraform, Nextflow, Docker, AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM), AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Batch, Data Manipulation, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Batch Processing, Regulatory Requirements, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), R, Data Science, Python (Programming Language), Research, Statistics

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Mirvie

2024-1 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

South San Francisco, California, United States

Data Scientist

Mirvie

2020-3 - 2023-12 · 3 yrs 10 mos

South San Francisco, California, United States

Data Scientist

Facebook

2019-11 - 2020-3 · 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

• Correctly identified signals that were predictive of future advertising and performed analyses with HiveQL, presto, Python, and R. Notable achievements while in the position included: - Improved both experimental design and analysis in the Small Business Group.

Java Software Developer

University of Oxford

2018-9 - 2018-12 · 4 mos

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Converted R packages into a graphical user interface (GUI) to give non-programmers access to image processing algorithms. • Ran introductory courses in programming in Python, R, and Java.

Conversion Data Scientist

Paddy Power

2013-6 - 2013-9 · 4 mos

County Dublin, Ireland

• Successfully automated the deployment of Google Ads for Paddy Power’s sports products and redesigned the advertising team’s A/B hypothesis testing methodology.

Education

University of Oxford

Statistics

2014 - 2018 · 4 yrs

Operated as the go-to data scientist for a team of 8 biophysicists. Routinely performed reproducible analyses of >100GB datasets. Developed a correction algorithm for videos recorded on microscopes. Wrote R packages for image analysis, unit testing and string manipulation (7 packages with over 250,000 combined downloads). Published 12 research papers in academic journals. Was lead data analyst on 10 of them and lead author on 7 of them. See my PhD thesis at https://rorynolan.github.io/phdthesis.