Tom Elgin

About Tom Elgin

I love channeling data into high-quality action and mentoring fellow nerds to drive businesses.At Facebook I lead Data Science projects for Growth Ecosystems, understanding the fuzzy intersections of many products with user behavior, network effects, and integrity systems. I previously led the Special Countries and Women in Emerging Markets Data Science team within Growth, finding product solutions to create valuable and positive experiences on Facebook for people with diverse backgrounds and expectations. Earlier, I worked in analytics for Internet.org, leveraging Facebook\'s resources to help narrow the \"digital divide\" and connect millions of people to Internet services for the first time (see videos below).Expertise in* consumer apps, acquisition & retention, online safety, international telecoms & data pricing (Data Scientist at Facebook)* derivatives trading, electricity markets (5 years Prop Trader at DC Energy)* startup-building, SaaS engineering and U.S. health benefits (Product Manager at Zane Benefits)At DC Energy, I built up two prop-trading teams generating multimillion-dollar annual profits. I also built a team that we shut down.As the 3rd employee and only PM at Zane Benefits, I wore hats from Sales to Engineering (PHP & SQL), delivering our \"best-in-class\" SaaS health benefits platform, which was profiled on the covers of WSJ and USA Today.

Experience

1. Staff Data Scientist, Tech Lead

   Meta

   Feb 2022 — Present

   My team builds the ML models that power Meta\'s current and future AR and VR devices (speech, computer vision, etc.).

Education

• Stanford University

  MS, Management Science & Engineering

  2008 — 2009

• Pomona College

  BA, Mathematics

  2001 — 2006