Summary
Zach Cochran is a data science junior at UC San Diego who leads analytics for the men's soccer program, combining a passion for soccer with hands-on machine learning and computer vision work. He built end-to-end pipelines to ingest and store 15+ million event records from the Wyscout API into AWS, designed efficient schemas and PowerBI dashboards, and engineered XGBoost-based event-value models to quantify player contributions. As founder of Triton Ball, he organizes workshops, guest lectures, and D1 collaborations that bridge students and collegiate programs—demonstrating both technical leadership and community building. He also develops custom Python visualizations and sequential logic algorithms to identify goal-creating events, and his background as a referee informs rapid, practical decision-making for coaches.
9 years of coding experience
University of California, San Diego
12, 12 at William Mason High School