Danielle Navarro
Data scientist, developer, technical writer, and educator
Employment History
Developer Advocate, Voltron Data (2022)
- Reduced barriers to adoption for developers using Apache Arrow
- Developed and delivered training material for technical audiences
- Improved user experience for developers in a complex software ecosystem
- Worked with software engineers and communicated community feedback
- Contributed code to improve software usability for users and developers
- Built a trusted profile to engage with community members on social media
Associate Professor (2012-2021)
Associate positions are senior (tenured) roles with multiple responsibilities. I held appointments at the University of Adelaide (2012-1015) and the University of New South Wales (2016-2021). Core responsibilities are listed below:
- Project management, finances, and team leadership
- Leadership roles in the broader scientific community
- A/B testing and advanced experimental design
- Data analysis, statistical modelling, and machine learning
- Curriculum development and delivery for technical subjects
- Grant and report writing, and publishing scientific research
- Research software engineering (mostly in R and Javascript)
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide (2006-2011)
Australian equivalent of tenure-track academic positions in North America. My duties were similar to those listed in the previous section, at a more junior level.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Adelaide (2004-2005)
- Build Bayesian nonparametric statistical models of human cognition
- Research software engineering, mostly in Matlab/GNU Octave
- Serve as primary data analyst for complex statistical analysis tasks
- Take a primary authorship role in writing scientific papers
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ohio State University (2002-2004)
My responsibilities at Ohio State University were similar to my later responsibilities as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Adelaide above.
Education
- Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Adelaide (1999-2003)
- Bachelor of Social Science (Honours), University of Adelaide (1994-1998)