Susan is a Principal Data Scientist at Elastic (of Elasticsearch), with previous ML experience in fintech, telecommunications, and social platforms. Susan is an international speaker, with talks at 6 PyCons worldwide and keynotes at Data Day Texas, PyCon DE & PyData Berlin, and O’Reilly’s AI Superstream. She writes about machine learning career growth on her Substack newsletter. In her free time she leads a team of game developers under Quill Game Studios, with multiple games released on consoles and Steam.