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ANDONI SOOKLARIS

PROFILE

I'm an Engineering Project Manager at Apple with a focus in automated decisioning systems and extracting business insights from data. I'm passionate about building simple solutions to complex problems, and building relationships with brilliant people to do it. I worked on launching Apple Pay Later, and currently am working on some more exciting stuff on the way!

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EXPERIENCE

   APPLE

Engineering Project Manager, Wallet  📍 Austin, TX → New York, NY

November 2021 to Present

  • Credit risk decisioning engine EPM

  • Products: Apple Pay Later, black projects

   APPLE

Quantitative Business Analyst, Wallet  📍 Austin, TX

December 2019 to November 2021

  • Owned fraud KPI reporting on a black project, as well as Apple Pay, Cash and Card lines of business.

  • Full-stack data analysis, insight synthesis and presentation in collaboration with business leaders and data scientists. Engineered data workflows using Airflow, Spark and HDFS on the back-end, and Python and Tableau on the front-end.

  • Architected service-integration agreements for an unreleased product cross-functionally with external partners across Apple.

  • Maintained partnerships with external financial business partners supporting Apple Pay.

  • Improved onboarding experience for new hires by working directly with leadership towards an scalable, team-based onboarding process.

  • Received the Above and Beyond Award in Apple Operations, March 2021.

   AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Data Analyst  📍 San Francisco, CA

June 2018 to December 2019

  • Leveraged Python, R, SQL and AWS cloud-based solutions to construct ETL pipelines, perform in-house research, and visualize the results for communication to collaborators.

  • Supported partnerships with leading research institutions into eye-related diseases and statistics-driven treatment effectiveness.

  • Developed and deployed analytical solutions on a 60-million patient EHR data registry, with data from 15,000 ophthalmologists nationwide.

    OLE HEALTH FQHC

Data Analyst  📍 Napa, CA

January 2017 to June 2018

  • Created an app using R and Shiny used by clinic staff and providers to boost efficiency and availability of information during office visits.

  • Wrote SQL reports to drive efficiency of clinic healthcare providers.

  • Architected a new SQL Server database structure collaboratively.

EDUCATION

    M.S. Statistical Analytics

Georgia Institute of Technology

Graduated 2024

Course focus includes statistical modeling, theoretical and mathematical statistics, business fundamentals for analytics.

    B.A. Statistics & B.A. Linguistics

University of California, Davis

Graduated 2018

Graduated with University Honors Program (UHP). Minor in German. Statistics GPA: 3.57, Linguistics GPA: 3.65, Overall GPA: 3.57.

SKILLS & LANGUAGES

PYTHON

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TABLEAU

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SHELL

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SQL

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R

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DUTCH (FLEMISH)

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GREEK

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GERMAN

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SPANISH

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