Anne Charlotte Leysen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Scientist and Software Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since February 3, 2020
Charlotte is an experienced professional in data science and analytics. She has worked in various industries, including finance, digital marketing, online marketplaces, and mental health. She has co-founded two startups, where her primary role focused on development, optimization, and business intelligence. Charlotte has a strong work ethic and strives for efficiency, delivering a high standard of work that brings top results.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Tableau, Jupyter Notebook, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Azure, Google Data Studio, Databases, SQL
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was developing a simulated crowd model to mitigate the effect of terrorist attacks in inner cities.
Work Experience
Co-founder
EmptyChair
- Founded an eCommerce B2B2C booking platform focused on the consumer experience industry through a mobile marketplace. As a team of 2, we grew the company to 10,000 users and 200 partners.
- Built the company analytics dashboard on Google Data Studio using SQL to include key operational and financial metrics data. Integrated data analytical knowledge as a strategic decision scientist with weekly growth metrics and user marketing.
- Built a seamless cross-platform (web and iOS) application from scratch, created features such as rescheduling, canceling, gift cards, and voucher codes, and improved the UX and UI. There was a high focus on the complete automation of the platform.
- Developed a strong understanding of the online retail market and business strategy in digital marketing, along with a strong proficiency in SEO, Swift, and LAMP.
Co-founder
It's Ping
- Developed a web-based chatbot using Dialogflow (a Google NLP tool) and Node.js. Created an online dashboard to view data collected from the chatbot with real-time statistics and aggregated metrics.
- Collaborated with the co-founder to create a seamless, empathetic, engaging chatbot for employees at work. The chatbot contains several modules to help identify specific work or home problems and overall moods.
- Oversaw the chatbot's training with testers and round-table sessions. This helped improve our product and pivot to a better version.
Senior Data Analyst
Expedia
- Developed testing standard practices (A/B and pre-post testing) and conducted experiments on ad titles, descriptions, and images to optimize Expedia's global search engine marketing.
- Created automated Python scripts to generate keywords and ads for Expedia's digital marketing strategy to draw in specific customer segments such as pet owners and family-friendly hotels.
- Developed trading and monitoring dashboards for operations teams to use daily and track ad performance. Predominately used BigQuery to pull the data into a Tableau dashboard.
- Conducted data analysis to aid strategic decision-making within strategy and marketing teams. Worked on Python and R and explored data to provide valuable insights and recommendations to use in this eCommerce-based marketing business.
- Developed the eCommerce advertising platform in Google Ads and helped optimize the framework for automating and implementing thousands of campaigns and keywords.
- Developed several ML models, including linear regression and classification models, to predict the revenue of new hotels onboarded into Expedia. The model outcomes were productized and used to drive marketing efforts and spending.
Research and Sales Analyst
Deutsche Bank
- Used statistical analyses to predict market trends and pitched macro trade ideas to investors, published market reports, optimized prediction trackers, created carry trade models, and produced market updates for the CEO.
- Executed FX transactions for asset management clients in spot, forward, and derivative products. Involved in the execution of exchange transactions of over £100 million in size.
- Coordinated a TEDx event featuring speakers on health and business. Responsible for pitching the initiative to senior management. Managed the entire process within the bank and hosted the speakers at the event.
- Accredited with the sole responsibility of chairing the "Ideas Lab" speaker series venture. Managed and led all aspects of the program, including hosting events, sourcing speakers, and internal marketing.
Experience
Data Analytics on EDI files for Healthcare Business
Worked on Snowflake to query the data via SQL; I pulled this data into Google Sheets to create intractable charts. I then translated these charts into Hex App, a more integrated visualization tool able to handle larger volumes of data than Google Sheets. The Hex tool also incorporated Python scripts from a more complex level of analysis.
These visualizations were automatically refreshed every day to meet the stakeholder needs.
Worked closely with the founder weekly to ensure she received the highest quality insights for her clients.
Data Science: Home Hazard Predictive Machine Learning Model
The training dataset included address-level data on the buildings' construction, e.g., wall material, insulation materials, boiler type, etc. This was enriched with other data, such as weather and poverty metrics.
Data cleaning techniques needed to be heavily deployed for address cleaning to ensure better matching across different data sets. Automated cleaning scripts were created to ensure an accurate, model-ready dataset to work with.
I then used supervised learning models such as logistic regression, SVM, and random forests to train the data. and experimented with clustering algorithms and Naive Bayes classifiers.
The final outputs included low, medium, and high-level risk predictions for thousands of households across the UK for each type of hazard. These results were delivered to councils across the UK to streamline their proactive home hazard prevention strategies.
Data Engineering and Mathematics: Simulation of Large Crowds | Crowd/Crisis Management
Detailed UK OS Maps were ingested to create a base landscape of buildings, streets, and pavements for the crowd to interact with. Individuals had different characteristics based on their demographic split.
The entire codebase was created with Python and hosted in AWS cloud. A UI/front end was built for users to create new simulations and view simulation results.
I also participated in in-depth, real-world research on crowd behaviors and psychology for each new feature. I was tasked with translating the research into a form that could be coded, and I helped code many critical features implemented in the model.
Data Science | Data Engineer: Financial Research Company
Developed automated scripts to run on raw data to validate and cleanse the data for analysis. She used Azure's cloud services such as Data Factory, Databricks, and Storage.
Once the data pipeline was built, I developed several dashboards on Looker (Google Data Studio) and Power BI based on the data to aid the business in decision-making.
Worked on other projects during my time here, developing web scraping scripts from flight tracker sites using Python to deliver daily reports to the business to help create macro research-based trading strategies for financial clients.
Data Science: AWS Support Function for Joint BioSecurity Centre
Resolved complex problems relating to predictive analytics and visualizations for the Joint BioSecurity Centre in the UK. I helped build national alert dashboards based on trends of positive COVID-19 rates and deaths across the UK.
Data Engineering: A/B Testing and Experimentation Platform for YouTube Content Creators
Tasked with refining and validating the supporting data model in Amazon Redshift. Used SQL to explore data and identify necessary changes, collaborating with engineers to implement changes.
Defined performance metrics based on exploratory data analysis, product considerations, and statistical power analysis, such as tweaking metric definitions to allow A/B tests to run faster. Built self-service experiment analysis and metric tracking dashboards using SQL and Python in a Sisense visualization product.
Data Analysis: Digital Marketing for Expedia
Challenged digital marketing strategies and improved growth by running incrementality tests such as pre and post-testing, A/B testing, and time series modeling. Found opportunities for collaboration between the Expedia brands to leverage the combined market share.
Used various predictive modeling techniques such as linear regression and other classification models to predict yearly revenues for newly onboarded hotels. Spent a lot of time in data cleansing and feature engineering using both Python and SQL.d
Developed several analytical dashboards using SQL and data visualization tools such as Tableau and Qlik Sense.
Entrepreneurship: EmptyChair Technical Co-founder
Co-founded the company as CTO and built the website and back end for the booking platform to run entirely automatically. The website was built on a LAMP tech stack connecting to Google Analytics for customer analysis.
The platform grew to over 10,000 users in the first year and registered over 200 partners.
Data Analysis: Churn Analysis for Company Optimizing YouTube Content Creators
Explored key drivers of user cancellations, including user demographics, properties, and behaviors. Built a pipeline to assess feature importance using an XGBoost model and produced graphical charts to analyze patterns and correlations across cancellation rates and features.
Finally, I leveraged ChartMogul's churn rate calculations regarding the customer, net MRR, and gross MRR to build a coherent story around the development of the churn rate over time.
Data Science: Hospital Capacity Management
This project was part of a "Health Hackathon" where doctors came together with data scientists and jointly developed a solution.
Utilized a linear regression model and classification models to give accurate predictions on time in hospital beds. Worked alongside medical doctors to incorporate useful features and ensure non-collinearity in the models.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Analytics and Big Data
IE Business School - Madrid, Spain
Bachelor of Science Degree in Statistics and Economics
University College London - London, UK
Skills
Libraries/APIs
NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Node.js, TensorFlow
Tools
Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Amazon SageMaker, Google Sheets, Qlik Sense, Microsoft Power BI, BigQuery, Bloomberg, Dialogflow, Sisense, AWS CLI, Plotly, Google Analytics, VPN
Languages
Python, SQL, R, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Snowflake
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jupyter Notebook, Databricks, Azure, RStudio, LAMP
Paradigms
Automation, HIPAA Compliance, Business Intelligence (BI)
Storage
Data Pipelines, MySQL, Redshift, Google Cloud, Databases
Other
Machine Learning, Data Science, Visualization, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Dashboards, Web Scraping, Data Scraping, Quantitative Analysis, Regression Modeling, Data Modeling, Google BigQuery, Statistics, Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Engineering, Mathematics, Business, Marketplaces, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forests, Classification Algorithms, Neural Networks, Azure Data Factory, A/B Testing, Predictive Analytics, Amplitude, eCommerce, Google Data Studio, Economics, Econometrics, Entrepreneurship, Web Development, Booking Systems, Linear Regression, Shell Scripting, HIPAA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
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