10 Netflix data scientists
Staff Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist and Director, Data Science & Engineering are among the titles these ten Netflix data scientists hold today. A reader can learn what data science at Netflix involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
Adriana Crespo-Tenorio
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist · Netflix
Adriana Crespo-Tenorio has been a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix since June 2025, after serving as Staff Data Scientist at ByteDance from 2024 to 2025. The profile also lists Research Scientist at Meta (2019–2024) and Data Scientist at Facebook (2018–2019), and describes expertise in ML and statistical modeling.
Erin Gustafson, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Staff Data Scientist · Netflix
Erin Gustafson has been a Staff Data Scientist at Netflix since September 2025, after serving as a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix from 2024 to 2025. The profile also lists Staff Data Scientist (2022–2023), Lead Data Scientist (2020–2022) and Senior Data Scientist (2019–2020) roles at Duolingo.
Garrett Hagemann
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist · Netflix
Garrett Hagemann has been a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix since March 2024, after serving as Senior Economist at Twitch from 2020 to 2024. The profile describes using economics, modeling and data to drive decisions and partnering with product and engineering teams to implement experiments, and lists Economist at Amazon (2018–2020).
George Schick
LinkedInExperience: Data Science Manager, Platform Data Science & Engineering · Netflix
George Schick has been Data Science Manager, Platform Data Science & Engineering at Netflix since January 2025, after serving as Data Science Manager at Meta from 2023 to 2025. The profile also lists Data Science Manager at Facebook (2020–2022) and Director - Product Management & Analytics at Capital One (2019–2020).
Jen Walraven
LinkedInExperience: Director, Data Science & Engineering · Netflix
Jen Walraven has been Director, Data Science & Engineering at Netflix since May 2023, after serving as Manager, Data Science & Engineering at Netflix from 2018 to 2023. The profile describes overseeing Studio Data Science and Engineering at Netflix and also lists Senior Analytics Engineer at Netflix (2017–2018).
Qianwei Shen
LinkedInExperience: Data Scientist · Netflix
Qianwei Shen has been a Data Scientist at Netflix since May 2025, after serving as a Data Scientist at TikTok from 2023 to 2025. The profile describes a specialty in time series forecasting, causal inference and experimentation, and also lists Senior Economist roles at Amazon and a Data Scientist role at Meta.
Sambhav Jain
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist · Netflix
Sambhav Jain has been a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix since August 2025, after serving as Senior Analytics Engineer (2024–2025) and Analytics Engineer (2022–2024) at Netflix. The profile describes running experiments and building data-powered tools for Growth and Monetization at Netflix.
Sean Barnes
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist, Ads Data Science & Engineering · Netflix
Sean Barnes has been Senior Data Scientist, Ads Data Science & Engineering at Netflix since April 2026, after serving as Manager, Content Management & Distribution Data Science and Engineering at Netflix from 2022 to 2026. The profile also lists Manager, Animation Data Science & Engineering (2021–2022) and Senior Data Scientist, Studio Production Data Science & Engineering (2020–2021) at Netflix.
Si Cheng
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist · Netflix
Si Cheng has been a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix since September 2025, after serving as a Data Scientist at Netflix from 2023 to 2025, and the profile lists the department as Research. The profile also lists a Machine Learning Intern role at Netflix in 2022 and a Data Scientist Intern role at Indeed in 2021.
Yaxi Chen
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist, Content DSE · Netflix
Yaxi Chen has been Senior Data Scientist, Content DSE at Netflix since June 2024, based in Seattle. The profile also lists Senior Economist, WW Returns & ReCommerce (2023–2024) and Senior Economist, Alexa (2019–2023) at Amazon, and an Economist Intern role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2017.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which questions are worth an experiment or a model in your area?
- 02How do you get product and business partners to act on your results?
- 03What changed in how you work when you moved into your current role?
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