# Yiwen (Avery) Tang

> Data Science at Confluent

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yiwenaverytang

- 6+ years of experience in the data science domain
- Full-stack data scientist with solid skills in analytics, machine learning, and experimentation
- Tech stack: SQL(bigquery, postgres), Python (numpy, pandas, sklearn, pytorch, tensorflow, seaborn), DBT, Airflow, Tableau, Metabase, Looker

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Confluent
Jan 2022 – Present
Cloud Cost Engineering

- Led the effort to surface insights about cloud bills and drive cost management / accountability within the company, a critical component to the company's profitability goals
- Established the core analytics around cloud costs including product and customer margins, unit economics, internal cost and waste tracking etc 
- Contributed to other efforts in cost engineering such as alerting, cloud tagging and waste detection
- Worked closely with Finance, Engineering and Product

### Team Lead - Sales Data Science @ Confluent
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Led a team of 3 to support Sales, Finance and Partner Ecosystem

### Senior Data Scientist @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Build e2e ML products: account scoring, booking forecast, linkage algorithm for account matching
- Support analytics needs from Sales, Marketing and Finance
- Drive x-functional projects with Sales, Product Marketing, Business Systems
- Worked with Senior VPs in Sales and Finance to drive business predictability

### Data Scientist @ Confluent
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Founding member of the Data team
- Architected an account matching system to ingest / match / dedupe data from various sources to expand the account base and drive the GTM effort
- Established KPIs and built dashboards to track metrics for booking, NRR, sales productivity and efficiency

### Data Scientist @ Leanplum
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
Leanplum is a mobile marketing platform that delivers meaningful engagement across messaging and in-app experience.

### Material Data Analyst Intern @ Imerys Filtration & Performance Additives EMEA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose
• Built models to enhance understanding of mineral additives and determine the direction for future experiment
• Improved and automated methods for data acquisition and analysis by building a data pipeline connecting laboratory equipments and computer software
• Worked closely with different teams to determine project scope and product features
• Presented results to senior management to drive business decisions

### Statistical Modeling Assistant @ Denison University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Granville, OH
• Continually improved the methods for parsing web data and transforming into structured forms
• Built regression models to predict sports game results and analyzed players’ values in a team
• Communicated project progression with research leaders to decide future steps


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics
Denison University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avery-yiwen-tang

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Last updated: 2026-04-05