Justin Li
@justinli1
Lead data scientist driving AI/ML solutions that cut costs and accelerate clinical and infrastructure outcomes.
What I'm looking for
I am a Lead Data Scientist with 9+ years building production AI/ML systems across healthcare, cloud infrastructure, real estate, and SaaS. I specialize in delivering measurable business impact by combining advanced modeling, scalable data engineering, and clear product-focused metrics.
At Cohere Health I led generative AI and real-time decisioning pipelines that improved authorization turnaround by 70%, delivered 30–40% administrative cost savings, and enabled 90% auto-approvals across millions of requests—while maintaining >99% precision in critical clinical extraction tasks.
I have a track record of shipping high-scale telemetry and analytics features at Chronosphere, driving infrastructure cost reductions and faster time-to-detection, and of creating predictive customer analytics and retention models at startups. I bring strong cross-functional leadership, mentorship, and a product-first approach to data science.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead Data Scientist
Cohere Health
Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)
Spearheaded AI-powered intake and decisioning pipelines that sped prior authorization turnaround by 70% and delivered 30–40% administrative cost savings; architected FHIR API integrations and AI copilots that achieved >85% real-time approvals and slashed nurse review time by 50% while maintaining >99% precision.
Senior Data Scientist
Chronosphere
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 6 months)
Developed telemetry transformations and features that reduced stored data by up to 84% and improved time-to-detection by 30–40%, built query acceleration and quotas to cut dashboard load times 50% and stabilize customer spend by 25%.
Data Scientist
Inspiring Apps
Mar 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 2 months)
Rebuilt analytics for a real-estate fintech app to boost weekly active users 22% and milestone tracking 35%, deployed churn models with 88% precision and cut transaction drop-off by 18% while creating real-time financial dashboards that halved reporting lag.
Data Analyst
Roofr
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 6 months)
Optimized lead capture and reporting processes to raise qualified lead conversion 28%, reduce reporting lag 40%, shorten sales cycle 20%, and cut material overage waste 22% through data-driven forecasting and dashboards.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Florida
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence
2014 - 2016
Completed a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence focusing on advanced machine learning and AI techniques to solve real-world problems.
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2009 - 2013
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in programming, algorithms, and systems.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Superset
D3.js
ggplot2
Chronosphere
GitLab
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Jupyter
NumPy
Pandas
dbt
MongoDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
InfluxDB
Gmail
Rollout
Databricks
Terraform
Jira
Java
Julia
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Keras
Kubeflow
Kafka
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Linux
iOS
Datadog
GraphQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Milvus
Airflow
Fluent Bit
go-git
TimescaleDB
SQL
XGBoost
Hugging Face
LightGBM
CatBoost
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Weaviate
Weights & Biases
Pinecone
Plane
Ray
Synthesized
Evidence
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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