Deepnote

First Developer Relations hire.

➤ Generate awareness for Deepnote notebooks through technical talks and keynote speeches given at industry events, running meetups with local data communities, and creation of owned and distributed content
➤ Manage and empower Deepnote's developer communities by creating educational resources including documentation, video demos, sample notebooks, tutorials and blog posts, and by supporting users in online communities & forums
➤ Engage Deepnote's users by creating thought leadership and social media content to enable gathering of feedback from the community that informs Deepnote's product strategy

Data Advocate

LinkedIn

Design, write and film educational content for LinkedIn Learning's library of data science courses

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Narrator

First data scientist hire.

Project experience:
➤ Analyze user behavior, product and acquisition funnel metrics to generate recommendations for customers in eCommerce, SaaS, CPG and communications sectors
➤ Implement, share best practices for, and interpret various customers' large scale A/B tests
➤ Manage and support client relationships in customer success role, enabling users to become fully self-sufficient in using the Narrator platform to derive analyses, reports and ongoing experiments

Data Scientist - Insights

Ankura

Provide data advisory, business intelligence/automated reporting and data science consulting services to clients in support of litigation in software, healthcare, labor and financial service industries. Tech stack: Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, SSIS, Excel

Project experience:
➤ Analyze over 10 terabytes of SaaS client’s data spread across 100+ databases to determine volume, identify patterns and locate exact database locations of customer PII and PHI leaked in national data breach
➤ Perform ETL and visualization of unstructured phone record data (on average 2m+ records received per month) to identify potential price-fixing calls between major meat-production companies in support of antitrust litigation
➤ Create and maintain firm's internal recruitment dashboards delivered to the People Office on a monthly basis that depict sources, placements and timing of Ankura's hiring efforts for 1000 employees and counting

Senior Associate - Analytics & Data Strategy

Gathered and analyzed financial transaction data to provide ad-hoc business valuations for multinational clients (ranging from $35m to $15b in total assets) in the SAAS, aerospace and defense, cannabis, retail and consumer products and private equity industries for goodwill impairment, purchase price allocation, business enterprise valuation, stock-based compensation and tax reporting purposes

Project experience:
➤ Identified business operation bottlenecks and generated store-level insights for a Fortune 500 client by delivering automated dashboards in Power BI that tracked KPIs, including revenue growth, contribution margins, occupancy costs, etc. for all of its 400+ stores worldwide
➤ Informed industry benchmarking reports and valued client companies relative to industry peers using Guideline Public Company and Guideline Transaction approaches by extracting and analyzing financial market data employing Capital IQ, Thomson Reuters and Oxford Economics databases

Strategy & Transactions Associate

CRC Companies

Led research efforts for underwriting new deals and valuing comparable properties in luxury and multifamily rental apartment markets in DC metro area, through in-person property tours as well as extraction and analysis of data from Costar database to assess historical and projected trends in property values, market conditions and current availabilities

Project experience:
➤ Developed operational business plan for the "Opportunity Incubator,” a community amenity space proposed in CRC’s redevelopment of a 300+ resident mixed income community in Alexandria, VA

Development Intern at CRC Companies

Wolf Group Capital Advisors

➤ Singlehandedly led quarterly processes of performance and billing reporting, then overhauled this process from print to entirely digital by integrating the Orion CRM reporting tool, which allowed firm to improve data integrity and investment performance for its 300+ investment portfolios
➤ Reconciled daily transaction and securities data in various portfolio management and CRM systems for $265 million+ in assets under management

Operations Associate

Data Scientist @ Narrator // Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning

I love data. I love writing. I love writing about data.

(The rest of this section is pending)

POV: you know at least some SQL and now it’s your time to shine 🤩

Also do you consider SQL a programming language? 🤔

Megan Lieu

For the past couple months, I thought I was being lazier than normal. Turns out, I was burnt out.

And unfortunately, this isn’t a story of how I finally got unburnt out and found balance in life, because I’m still burnt out.

You see, plenty of people talk about being laid off from their jobs on here, and then when they find a new job it’s theoretically a happy ending.

But what no one talks about is the lasting mental effects of losing something as pivotal to your identity as your career, even after you’ve been reemployed.

Immediately after I lost my last job, I dove right into an intense job search for 3 weeks, then started my current job the next week (mind you, both of these jobs were at really lean, early stage startups).

And I remember right before taking the job, I told myself “I don’t care how hard the work will be, I’d rather work 12 hour days than ever be unemployed again.”

So I became a yes woman, in both my day job and my business creating content on the side, because I never ever wanted to go through the feelings I felt being let go and having no backup options ever again.

What happened next: I started losing interest in hobbies (like powerlifting, which anyone who personally knows me knows that was a huge part of my life), I slept much less, I started neglecting relationships, I couldn’t do the simplest tasks without being overwhelmed, and I was finally diagnosed with ADHD.

And for the longest time, I didn’t even want to admit this was burnout, because 1. That would be admitting failure and 2. I had asked for this, right?

So far in this story of my burnout, the only thing that’s changed is I’ve at least acknowledged it, and started saying no to *some* things.

Will I take the leap of seeking professional help, or quitting everything and moving away to some far away land? That remains to be seen, but I do plan on documenting more of this mental health journey.

But this story is all too common in people my age. For those in a similar position, please know that admitting feelings of burnout does not make you lazy or a failure, and that whatever step you’re at in this process of figuring it out, we’re in it together ❤️

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I no longer dread Mondays. I’m mature now…I HATE THE WHOLE WEEK.

Data & DevRel @ Deepnote // Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning

We need more women in STEM.

In fact, we need more women in all places where decisions are being made (shout out RBG), and that was all I could think about while I was at the U.S. Department of State last week.

When the State Department invited me for a full day of learning and creating content, I knew accepting meant the chance to represent the underrepresented.

But to be able to do it alongside 5 other amazing women in STEM I look up to, was the chance of a lifetime.

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ICYMI: the State Department acts as a bridge between US policy and our foreign partners in the world.

But did you know that bridge includes exchange programs like TechWomen and TechGirls that give women in underrepresented countries the chance to pursue STEM roles in the US?

The State Department also has been actively recruiting STEM professionals who have an interest in diplomacy through programs like the FAIT Fellowship and roles in the Department like Diplomatic Tech Officers.

Check the links in my comment below 👇 to apply or get involved in these programs yourself!

The biggest thank you to the State Department for this unforgettable day 🙏

I suffer from Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria.

Definition: when any little hint of disagreement or disapproval leads to a downward spiral of existential emotions.

Creating content on content has made it a lot worse over the years.

“They probably hate me”
“I wish nobody ever disliked me”
“I should just take down this post”
“This person knows I'm a total imposter”
“Everyone probably thinks the same thing of me”

You would think that after 2+ years of consistent content creation, I'd be used to it by now.

But when you're a severe conflict-avoidant people pleaser like me, it doesn't really get easier.

So why do I keep putting myself in the crosshairs of this constant potential danger to my emotions?

Because I know that putting myself out there so publicly has led to benefits that far outweigh the mental downsides.

Speaking gigs
Job opportunities
New friends & mentors
Additional income streams

But along the way, it's also forced me to learn how to better manage the irrational anxiety that comes with the ups and downs of having somewhat of a platform.

So if you have this dysphoria too and you're scared of creating your own content, just do it and I promise you'll not only be okay, you'll come out of it so much stronger.

♻️ Repost if you’re a sensitive soul like me (and it’s ok if you are!)

You can be fired or laid off. You can rage quit or quiet quit. But none of these “bad” things happening in your career make you a bad person.

Because all of these “bad” things are NORMAL things that happen to everyone.

Social media, and especially LinkedIn, makes you think everyone else is growing, working hard, and hyper-productive 24/7.

In reality, everyone has probably had a period in their life they weren’t proud of, but in retrospect became a mere blip in their career journey.

When I got my first “needs improvement” performance eval, I thought the world was out to get me.

When I was PIPed in a job where I was severely burnt out, I felt so wronged and had that chip on my shoulder for years.

When I was fired unexpectedly from a role I loved, I thought it was my worst nightmare come true.

Looking back at all of these moments that society and my parents would deem “failures”, I now chuckle at how dramatic I was being.

Because the more I post about these moments in my career, the more people reach out to me telling me they’ve experienced these same taboos, and the more I realize the world is NOT out to get me, or anyone for that matter!

Try, fail, learn, move on. That’s it, folks.

The unhappiest I’ve ever been was when I made my highest salary.

This went contrary to everything I had ever believed in my life.

I studied hard to do well in school.
I went to a good school to land a job.
I worked hard at my jobs to make money.
I made more money and my happiness increased…

Until it didn’t anymore.

Burnout fundamentally rewired my brain.

So now here’s what I (try to) believe in for my life going forward:

1. Purpose
2. Personal growth
3. Fulfilling relationships
4. The journey, not the destination

🙋🏻‍♀️ If this resonated with you, follow me (Megan Lieu) and give this a repost!

In my last two job searches, I never sent out a single cold application.

Because in case you don't know, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗷𝗼𝗯.

All my interviews either came from hiring managers and recruiters reaching out to me, or vice versa.

I used to think this kind of “back door” hiring was only reserved for executive-level candidates.

But after having been hired for two IC roles this way, I’ve learned that these word-of-mouth opportunities don’t just happen by accident.

Here are 5 ways you can very intentionally maximize your chances of attracting these “informal” job opportunities:

✅ 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁, 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲:
↳ Optimize it for searchability by adding keywords through analysis of job descriptions in your target role. Optimize formatting and styling by study others’ LinkedIn profiles.

✅ 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁:
↳ No, you don’t have to be an “influencer.” But content (once your profile is optimized) gets way more eyeballs on your profile than 1:1 chats or even attending networking events do.

✅ 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀:
↳ The goal of applications is to speak to an actual person, rather than get screened out by the ATS. Coffee chats are basically your shortcut to that person.

✅ 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀:
↳ While referrals from people in the target company should still be one of your strategies, in recent years I’ve found referrals don’t go as far as speaking with those with hiring power. 

✅ 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀:
↳ Smaller companies are way more informal and move much faster than big companies do. Smaller companies are also more likely to hire for roles that never even get posted.

Have you ever landed a job without applying to it?

♻️ Repost for a job seeker in your life!

I recently shared a post about my burnout, and that post was mocked in a viral thread on r/LinkedInLunatics this week. 

That was my 3rd time ending up on LinkedInLunatics (a Reddit thread where people make fun of LinkedIn creators), and you know how I found out?

My coworkers, friends, and even 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘮 (who barely even uses Facebook!) found it and told me.

The 1st time I was on the thread, my heart sank as I read each comment.
The 2nd time, I quickly skimmed it and learned to compartmentalize.
This 3rd time, I felt absolutely 0 desire to read anything at all.

So to all the anonymous cowards who have seen my LinkedIn posts on here but decided to go out of your way to share your unfiltered thoughts on Reddit instead:

Thank you. I truly didn’t know I, a recovering people-pleaser, could be just so at peace with the fact that some people in this world 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 inevitably dislike me, until this third time around.

This cringey, unnecessary, unrelated photo is for you guys! 🥂

And to everyone who has ever reached out saying my content has resonated with you in some way, you guys make ignoring the naysayers so easy ❤️ 
#brbcryinggratefultears

If you’ve never been to a data conference, let me break down what they’re like:

You’ve got three main groups of people:

1. The expo hall socializers who came to sell
2. The talk session floaters who came to learn
3. The laptop warriors just working the whole time

You’ve got three ways to get the most out of them (in my opinion):

1. Attend the keynote and a handful of directly relevant talks (don’t spend all your time here)
2. Make connections at booths in the expo hall (don’t get distracted by the swag)
3. Make friends at afterparties (drink responsibly!)

Two weeks ago, I got to attend one of the biggest data conferences of the year, the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, and there were three big themes from the event that I think will continue to dominate the conversation at future conferences:

1. New data architectures like data fabrics and meshes and how they enable insights at scale
2. Generative AI technologies and how they democratize insights throughout an organization
3. Data security and its role in developing AI innovations

The difference between the Gartner D&A Summit vs other data conferences I’ve been to the past is that I got to attend as an SAP thought leader!

As one of their partners, I’ll be learning more about how SAP approaches these themes, and I’m super excited to share those learnings with you guys. For now, read more about what SAP is up to here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eW9-S9Vt

Have you attended a data conference before? And if so, what are your top tips for getting the most out of them?

Interviewer: What’s your biggest weakness?

Me: Well, in the words of Taylor Swift…

We’re living in an age where everyone’s more concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence than the decline of human intelligence.

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