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Max Holter

Portland,OR

Summary

Passionate about leveraging data to drive quicker decision-making and developing robust solutions to complex problems.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Trust and Safety Analyst

Coinbase
05.2024 - Current
  • Updated wash trading rule logic to prevent upwards of 5 million in customer loss
  • Generated victim populations quickly and accurately as part of incident response
  • First adopter of new rules engine and technology on the team
  • Updated dashboards to clearly identify 2fa attack vectors, and pushed a rule to address gaps
  • Presented weekly updates to XFN with hopes of improving models long term

Software Systems Engineer

Conferma
08.2023 - 05.2024
  • Automated updating and reporting tools using Powershell and Python saving 30 worker hours per month
  • Managed the health and file structure of 40 servers
  • Moved an MSSQL Server environment to Azure
  • Implemented backend changes and developed APIs

Data Scientist (Payments Fraud)

Meta
08.2021 - 08.2023
  • Was the subject matter expert for payments fraud on 6 products
  • Constructed and ran A/B tests
  • Led to an 80% increase in credit card attach rate in special cases
  • Defined metrics to understand the impact of risk actions on good users leveraging control groups
  • Lead end to end risk testing organized across 4 teams
  • Created responsive fraud rules that were only triggered by high pressure fraud situations

Business Intelligence Developer

Indeed
09.2019 - 08.2021
  • Created a lead generating model for our upsell service 'Seen by Indeed'
  • Automated reporting to leadership slack channels using the Slack API
  • Moved an onsite database to Amazon Redshift
  • Created deeply interactive dashboards using Tableau and Tableau Prep

Education

Mathematics - Actuarial Science

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
05.2019

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Airflow
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Viz
  • Tableau
  • NoSql
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • API Development
  • Excel
  • Docker
  • JavaScript
  • XML

Accomplishments

  • Successfully stopped $8 million of net new fraud, resulting in a 25% reduction in total fraud on Meta Quest sales.
  • Consistently automate work to save myself and others time
  • Mathematics Degree earned as a Division one athlete and national champion


Awards

  • Exceeds Expectations on 5 straight annual performance reviews (Indeed, Meta, Conferma)
  • 8x Academic All American
  • 8x Athletic Directors Honor Role
  • Texas Men's swim and Dive most improved swimmer 2015-16 season
  • All American 2019

Hobbies and Interests

  • Trail running and cycling
  • Baking Sourdough Bread
  • Rock Climbing
  • Watching Survivor

Timeline

Trust and Safety Analyst

Coinbase
05.2024 - Current

Software Systems Engineer

Conferma
08.2023 - 05.2024

Data Scientist (Payments Fraud)

Meta
08.2021 - 08.2023

Business Intelligence Developer

Indeed
09.2019 - 08.2021

Mathematics - Actuarial Science

University of Texas at Austin
Max Holter