# Ken Izzo

> Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kenizzo

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform @ Affirm, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Data Scientist, Applied Machine Learning @ Affirm, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
• Part of a small team that built and scaled the Affirm Experimentation Platform (AXP)
• Built Affirm's first machine learning based system for merchant underwriting

### Staff Data Scientist, Machine Learning and Analytics @ ClearSlide
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States
ClearSlide is a sales engagement SaaS platform. I helped them grow to $40M ARR, reach profitability, and exit.

• led all major data related initiatives
• created machine learning based product features (content recommender, opportunity close predictor...)
• built production data pipelines
• built custom end-to-end data products for internal analytics
• conducted analysis to drive product and company strategy

### Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ KPMG
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Chicago, Illinois
KPMG’s “Lighthouse for Advanced Data & Analytics” builds custom data products for large enterprises

• built production data pipelines, machine learning models, and custom web based visualization applications for Fortune 100s
• achieved highest utilization rate and performance evaluation in the Lighthouse (100 data scientists and data engineers)

### Professional Basketball Player @ Factum Sport Debrecen
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Debrecen, Hungary
• played two seasons in the top professional division in Hungary

### Associate Consultant @ Mars & Co.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Greater New York City Area
Mars & Co is a top tier boutique strategy consultancy that offers industry exclusivity and specializes in sensitive projects for large enterprises

• advised Fortune 100 execs on key strategic decisions


## Education
### BSBA in Finance, Management
Georgetown University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kennethizzo

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Last updated: 2026-04-12