Jill Cates
Senior Data Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJill Cates is a Senior Data Scientist with a decade of experience building scalable data pipelines and deploying machine learning solutions across healthcare and e-commerce. At Shopify she progressed from Data Scientist to senior individual contributor, applying production-grade ML to large, real-world datasets. Her background includes developing an early-onset sepsis diagnostic model, standardizing clinical data, and shipping an implicit-feedback recommender used by ~500,000 clinicians and researchers. Trained in medical physics and data science, she blends rigorous domain knowledge with practical engineering—having also migrated monolithic PHP systems to microservice React/Node stacks and instrumented web platforms for analytics. Quietly, she brings an unusual mix of clinical insight and full-stack delivery experience that helps bridge research models into robust, auditable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (96)
appwrite10
recommendation-system10
python10
markdown10
javascript10
statistics10
dsa-algorithm10
data-visualization10
matrix-factorization10
collaborative-filtering10
estate9
hotel-booking9
recommender-system9
icu9
restructuredtext9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
topspinj/medcodes
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
A Python package for standardizing medical data
Contributions:86 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
pythonmedical-data
topspinj/homys
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:154 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
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