# Shaheen Lavie-Rouse > Data and music move me forward Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shaheenlavierouse Helping musicians make more money with less effort • Previously: PM specializing in data-intensive products for Lyft’s customers and developers • data scientist during Lyft’s 200% YoY hypergrowth ## Work Experience ### Forward Deployed Engineer @ ElevenLabs Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Forward Deployed Engineer - Deployment Strategist * Agents Platform ### Founder and CEO @ Hire Notes Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Effortless live music bookings - automate and simplify every step of booking live music * Build Cadence - AI booking agent * Grow musician earnings to $8M * Code full stack app, front end, back end, AI features, API integrations * Grow to 3K listed musicians and 5 enterprise scale clients with 100% yoy retention ### Senior Product Manager @ Lyft Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Marketplace team (2023-): Migrate Lyft to a human-in-the-loop ML architecture for market management, improving the ROI on Lyft’s $1B/year in growth spending Fleet team (2021-2023): Led Lyft’s Connected Car initiative, integrating vehicle metadata and real-time vehicle data to increase personalization, safety, and accuracy for drivers, riders, and our operations, while reducing costs 50% ### Product Manager @ Lyft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Data & ML Platform team - Upleveled Lyft’s data tooling to increase productivity for data scientists, data engineers, and ML engineers. Introduced new internal tools with up to +50pts developer NPS vs. legacy vendors. ### Senior Data Scientist @ Lyft Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Decision science products team - Optimized and allocated Lyft’s ~$1.2B in annual growth spending across regions and levers to keep the markets balanced between supply and demand ### Data Scientist @ Lyft Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Growth team ### Senior Analyst @ Analysis Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Boston and Menlo Park Worked with clients ranging from the NFL to SCOTUS litigators. Eventually specialized in healthcare strategy, guiding pricing and product development decisions for 31 therapies, most generating over $1B annually in sales ### Expert in Residence: Front End Web Development @ General Assembly Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 On the instructional team member for front-end web development class, mentored students final projects, and got a team together to participate at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Hackathon. ### Research Consultant @ UNDP Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Coded analyses of large-scale panel surveys to support policy recommendations and co-authored peer reviewed publications on topics of human development growth, economic growth, and child labor. ### Research Assistant, Program on Indian Economic Policies @ Columbia University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Conducted econometric analysis behind published research into entrepreneurship in India. ### String Fellow @ A Far Cry Orchestra Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Performed cello with GRAMMY nominated conductor-less orchestra. Designed marketing survey. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics Tufts University ### Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance New England Conservatory of Music ### Graduate Assistant in The Peabody Institute The Johns Hopkins University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/slavierouse --- Source: https://flows.cv/shaheenlavierouse JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shaheenlavierouse/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11