Emily Gorcenski

@emilygorcenski
Data
Berlin/Charlottesville
she/her

Data Mesh

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Women in Tech

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Shitposter

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Infrastructure as Code

LGBT+

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JAMstack

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Black Lives Matter

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Expat

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Seen Some Sh*t

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SQL

Conference Speaker

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Women’s Empowerment

Software Developer

Machine Learning

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Data Science

Podcast Guest

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Coding

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University Graduate

Antiracist

I'm a data scientist with a background in research engineering and control theory. I have a degree in applied and computational mathematics and fifteen (give or take) years of professional experience. I'm also an anti-Nazi activist and work in data journalism.

As a consultant, my goal is to help clients build data-driven products and become data-driven companies. I help them define data platform solutions to support these products.

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I'm open to

guest lecturing,

joining company boards,

advising companies,

speaking on podcasts,

talking to journalists,

live streaming,

and speaking at events.

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Resume

Aug 2018 - Present

Principal Data Scientist, Thoughtworks

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Long time since I've posted, but only because I've been busy! Over the holiday break I've been rebuilding my personal website. I have a lot of frustrations with recent trends in web design: pages t...

I'm speaking with my colleague Zhamak, the creator of Data Mesh, about the importance of self-service platform capabilities in the data mesh context. You should join! https://www.thoughtworks.com/e...

I spoke with my friend Molly about the danger of organizing with violent fascists to achieve your economic political objectives. https://therealnews.com/matthew-heimbach-and-the-lefts-vulnerability...

I'm on stage in a couple hours to talk about Data Mesh, Data Products, and SLOs at BigData EU! https://bigdataconference.eu/emily-gorcenski/

Speaking engagements

Next week I will be speaking at SLOconf 2022, on May 9-12th. SLOconf is a conference entirely focused on Service Level Objectives, it is online and free to attend. I'm going to be giving an example...

Videos

My talk from SLOConf is up! I was thrilled to have such active discussion on the topic in the Slack group and got a lot of great feedback. It's a short talk and I hope you like it! https://www.yout...

Articles and blogs

I wrote a wrapup piece with Molly Conger about Sines v. Kessler and the cases presented by both the plaintiffs and the defense. As expected, the defense tried to make the case about free speech, ab...

My friend Molly Conger and I analyzed jury selection in Sines v. Kessler and talked about how it reflects the broader trend in American politics: overwhelming evidence facing off against populist c...