Being the 1st Data Science hire, transitioning to being a manager, and letting your ego go in coding with Ryan Scolnik Head of Data Science at FortressIQ
About this episode
Meet: Ryan Scolnik, the Head of Data Science at FortressIQ. He was employee #4 and currently leads the company's data science, computer vision and AI strategy. Ryan holds a PhD in Statistics from Florida State University and enjoys Kaggle competitions and long bike rides in his spare time.
What you’ll learn:
Being the 1st Data hire - lessons learned and finding data vs simulating data
Transition to being a manager - be prepared for more meetings, less coding and lots of communicating
Ego and Coding - trusting your team and letting your ego go
If you want to follow up with Ryan, please connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-scolnik-5718193a/
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