Howdy! It’s nice to meet you

I’m originally from Russia but grew up in Southern California and eventually settled in Pennsylvania. Back in 2017 I wrote about my journey to becoming a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia. A lot has happened since then! In 2021 I stepped into the role of Data Science Manager and led the Product Analytics team within the Research and Decision Science group. In March 2025 I transitioned back to an individual contributor, stepping into the role of Staff Data Scientist embedded on the Experiment Platform team.

I’m a big fan of R and many of the tutorials and blog posts I’ve written here are about doing stuff in/with R. I’ve developed a few packages.

I love my wife and son, and I love cooking delicious meals for them.

I love detective/mystery games and have recently writing about them at my new blog Croc ’n’ Coat.