Career record

Résumé

Engineering and analytics leader with 10+ years building data platforms, production systems, and high-autonomy teams. I specialize in hiring and developing high-agency team members and using AI tooling to deliver outsized business impact.

Joe Saia

Engineering Leader & PhD Economist

West Orange, NJ518-530-8318joe5saia@gmail.com
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Experience

  1. Rhythm Management Group

    VP of Engineering

    • Reporting to the CEO, built and led a 26-person org spanning product engineering, platform engineering, QA, IT, and Salesforce analysts

    • Co-owned the BI stack (Snowflake + Fivetran + Sigma) with VP of Finance; moved executive reporting to self-serve dashboards and established source-of-truth metrics

    • Implemented Salesforce Omnichannel routing; measured a 35% productivity lift

    • Hands-on contributor averaging 2–5 production PRs per week: built Python ETL for claims data into Salesforce and Snowflake, automating reconciliation and enabling claims funnel measurement

  2. Rhythm Management Group

    Director of Engineering

    • Transformed a waterfall-in-disguise team into a high-agency agile org that shipped against customer pain points in days, not quarters

    • Drove 99%+ uptime, moved releases from quarterly to bi-weekly, and consolidated backend services for 30% lower cloud spend

    • Insourced key IT functions to improve reliability, security posture, and data governance

  3. Perry Health

    Senior Manager of Data and Engineering

    • Reporting to the COO, owned the EHR web app and data infrastructure using Python and React; led a cross-functional team of engineers and data scientists across NY and EU

    • Built acquisition-to-enrollment funnel (Rudderstack, GA4, Tableau), instrumented events, and ran A/B tests to improve conversion

    • Built claims processing pipeline managing $1.5M per year enabling a two-person team; maintained industry-leading 74% collections rate

    • Shipped data integrations (Abbott, Dexcom, SureScripts) to improve clinical decision-making

  4. Perry Health

    Data Scientist

    • Migrated Python ETLs to Fivetran and dbt SQL on Redshift, enabling faster iteration

    • Maintained comprehensive company-wide reporting on all business aspects using Looker, driving data-informed decision-making supporting $35 million Series A

  5. Revelio Labs

    Machine Learning Engineer

    • Engineered AWS EMR + PySpark pipeline to process one million LinkedIn profiles daily

    • Trained ensemble model to standardize employer names across the full universe of LinkedIn profiles

  6. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

    Senior Research Assistant

    • Designed 45 TB data lake housing NYSE exchange data augmented with internally developed indicators

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Education

  1. PhD Economics

    Columbia University

  2. MSc Economics

    University College London

  3. BS Physics and Economics

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Technical Skills

Languages
SQL, Python, R, Julia, Golang, TypeScript, Node.js, React
Experimentation & Inference
A/B test design, power analysis, CUPED, stratification, uplift modeling, DML, causal forests
AI Tools
Claude Code, Codex, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Pi
Data Platforms
Snowflake, Redshift, dbt, Fivetran, AWS EMR, Spark, Lambda
Visualization & BI
Tableau, Looker, Sigma, executive storytelling and self-serve dashboards
Event & Funnel Analytics
attribution, conversion, retention, Google Analytics (GA4)