Kara Woo

Kara Woo is a Senior Software Engineer at Recast, a company that provides an on-demand Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) platform.1 She recently joined Recast in this role, as announced on her LinkedIn post from March 11, 2024.4

Prior to joining Recast, Kara's professional experience includes:

1. Working as a Senior Data Science Engineer at InsightRX5
2. Serving as a Research Scientist in data curation at Sage Bionetworks6

Kara has a strong background in data science and software engineering. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Washington.3 Her expertise spans various areas, including:

1. Data curation and sharing
2. Tool development for researchers
3. R programming

Kara is active in the data science community and has given several talks at conferences. Some of her presentations include:

• "Building a collaborative data sharing portal for Alzheimer's disease research" at WNAR 2019
• "Box plots: A case study in debugging and perseverance" at rstudio::conf 20197

On GitHub, Kara maintains an active presence with 169 repositories available under her username "karawoo".2 She has contributed to various open-source projects and has created educational resources, such as example dockerfiles for plumber, shiny, and quarto.2

Kara is based in Portland, OR, and has over 500 connections on LinkedIn.3 Her LinkedIn username is indeed karawoo, as mentioned in the query.