Nili Waypa

Vice President of Analytics Engineering

Sezzle

Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Director, Analytics Engineering

Sezzle

Oct 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Manage data team's relationship with the Product team -lead weekly sprint planning meetings -project intake through Jira -add business context and technical requirements to projects Set quarterly goals with the Business Analytics team. Strategy ideas to expand work scope, automation & self service capabilities, and standardization In charge of Transformations in dbt; the organization of Sezzle's data warehouse. Automate data transfers to and from partners Responsible for credit furnishing to credit bureaus. Manage relationship with customer service Disputes Team. Document policies & processes for CFPB audits, translate technical details Responsible for reports to the leadership team Lead document processing automation with large langua

Senior Manager, Analytics Engineering

Sezzle

Feb 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Data Governance -Manage semantic layer -Implement product controls for reporting -Own SLOs for data transfer between partners -Work with software developers on product changes to enhance data collection & accuracy -Created testing & development framework to operationalize data projects, implementing framework on python scripts across 20 person data org Manage direct reports

Manager, Data Science

Sezzle

Jul 2021 - Feb 2022 (8 months)

• Code owner of 350 data models that transform 5 TB of data for tables with up to 10's of Trillions of rows • Influencer in transition from data as a service org to data as a product • Onboard and train 15 data team members annually • Lead Analytics Engineering team • Completed projects for every team in the Decision Sciences department including Shopper Fraud, Merchant Risk, Credit Strategies, and Business Analytics

Teaching Assistant

University of Minnesota

Nov 2019 - May 2020 (7 months)

Data Analytics and Visualization Bootcamp Topics: Python (Pandas, Matplotlib), Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB), ETL, Web Scraping (Splinter), Flask, Javascript, D3, HTML & CSS, Tableau, APIs (Google Maps, Census, etc), R, VBA, Machine Learning (scikit-learn, Keras), Big Data (mrjob- MapReduce in Python, PySpark- NLP, cloud architecture in AWS)

Data Scientist I

Sezzle

Jul 2019 - Jul 2021 (2 years 1 month)

Duplicate users algorithm, Python Sales commissions calculator, Python Audit and consolidation of all performance metrics in the company Data Pipelines in dbt on Amazon Redshift with GitLab CI ETL from Salesforce to Redshift, SOQL & Python with CronJobs on Kubernetes Credit Reporting to TransUnion

Data Analyst

Sezzle

Dec 2018 - Jul 2019 (8 months)

First data analyst at Sezzle on a four person data team REPORTING -Handle information requests throughout the company and give data-backed strategy recommendations -Own KPI reporting for the executive team, marketing department, and sales department -Automate reporting from the database to Google Sheets with Cron, coded in Python with MySQL DECISIONING -Create and test hypotheses for trackable behavior predictive of fraud for our feature selection process -Run statistical analysis on hypotheses to form recommendations for additions to the credit decisioning algorithms -Feature Extraction for Fraud and Credit Limit Models Manage two interns

Alexa Developer

SayKid

Aug 2018 - Nov 2018 (4 months)

Worked alongside the founder to advise on technology strategy. Oversaw creation of a standard software development process to reduce software development time for game creation from months to weeks. Prioritized software features based on requirements gathered directly from end users. Produced Amazon-approved software for Alexa that plays on a hardware device inside a stuffed animal. Presented working beta version to 800 people at the MinneDemo technology event. Started pre-selling product at a profitable margin to obtain the company's first revenue and further prove product-market fit. Recognition: Beta incubator cohort winter 2018, MinneDemo presenter fall 2018, MN Cup Semi-Finalist summer 2018, Y Combinator Start-up School 2018

Intern - Controller's Organization Associate | Transformations Team

Salesforce

May 2017 - Aug 2017 (4 months)

-Assisted in requirements gathering, flowcharting, and vendor selection for a new accounting system -Lead redesign of an application by gathering requirements, crafting a proposal and presenting to a VP -Communicated to leadership in Finance & Strategy department use cases of Einstein (Salesforce's AI) -Revamped executive dashboard for the Chief Accounting Officer and Executive Vice President -Automated monthly accounting tasks in Excel for leasing team -Fortune 100 best companies to work for 2018, #1 -Indeed 10 best companies to work for 2017, #1

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Owner

The Way LLC

Jun 2016 - May 2017 (1 year)

Worked with multiple small companies in Minneapolis and remotely to serve as the technology leader on website design, software implementation, and business strategy. Often hired for tangible work such as improving a website and added work once a larger business need was found. Various work was sourced to other students for specific expertise. Work I excel in: - Websites (Wordpress, Magento, HTML & CSS) - Software Implementation (information systems) - Business strategy - Content writing & landing pages - Design (website design, fliers, mail-ins, descriptive graphics)

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Intern

Hue LLC

Apr 2016 - Sep 2016 (6 months)

-Worked beside the founder/ CEO to complete a variety of projects as his second hand man -Website consulting work for Modern Talent, automating employee processes (moderntalentusa.com) -ERP requirements, rebranding, IT architecture, and implementation consulting work for Park Supply of America (diydirectsupply.com) -Internal and external SEO work and link building campaigns for Zip Scanners (zipscanners.com) -System implementation for Small Lot Wine (smalllotmn.com)

Marketing and Programming Intern

SparkStarter LLC

Dec 2015 - Feb 2016 (3 months)

-Transitioned the company blog from Wordpress.com hosted to open-source Wordpress.org hosted in Amazon Web Services. -Created the "Most Eligible" marketing campaign that became the inspiration for multiple events and contributed to the 1,000 user increase during that time at a cost of less than $1 per user acquired.

Student

University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management

Sep 2014 - May 2018 (3 years 9 months)

Leveraged resources of a large university and obtained a BSB with a double major in MIS and Entrepreneurship. Carlson ranks #4 in the US for MIS degrees (USNews Jan 2018).

Security Monitor

University of Minnesota Police Department

Sep 2014 - May 2015 (9 months)

Electronics Assembler

Bosch

Jun 2014 - Jun 2015 (1 year 1 month)

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Lifeguard

River Springs Water Park

May 2012 - Aug 2014 (2 years 4 months)

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