# Zachary Fein

> Software Engineer at Airbnb

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco, California

### Data Scientist @ Trooly
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Los Altos, California

### Data Science Intern @ Whisper App
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Venice, California
• Developed metrics to predict top submissions based on user preferences
• Used natural language processing and deep learning to further improve the models based on the content of the submission
• Created a web app to aid in the discovery of top submissions before they become popular

### Data Science Intern @ Lumiata
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Mateo, California
• Built an interactive web app to fit probability distributions to input data and 
graph the results
• Interactive display and plotting allows users to visualize different models and 
parameter values and save the values of the best fit
• Created an interface to analyze the relationship between any set of properties in 
Lumiata’s medical graph using the model fitting tool
• Used this to determine properties of interest in the medical graph by seeking out 
atypical results, such as insurance providers with higher incidence rates for 
specific diseases

### Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow @ Caltech
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Pasadena, California
• Collected personal records and financial histories of NFL athletes using Python
• Analyzed athletes’ spending habits in order to investigate economic models of 
intertemporal consumption
• Presented results at Caltech SURF Seminar Day in Oct. 2013

### Research Intern @ University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Dallas, TX
• Studied the structure of the transcription factor complex Ptf1-J in the embryonic 
pancreas
• Discovered a motif present in the amino acid sequence that may facilitate the 
binding interaction of the molecules in the complex
• Presented poster at 2011 Experimental Biology convention in Washington, DC


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Caltech


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zachary-fein-6b7999aa

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Last updated: 2026-04-05