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Dylan Wu

Analytics Leader & AI Builder.

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Core Competencies

Domain Expertise

Business Strategy

Ten years across five startups means reading a business model fast — where the money comes in, where it leaks, and which lever actually moves when you pull it.

Data Science

Customer insight through data and experimentation — so product teams ship with insights, not luck.

Data Strategy

Data architecture that outlasts the team that built it, engineered to make confident, data-driven decisions the default across the organization.

Product Strategy

Product decisions from the PM seat: what problem are we solving, who is it for, and is it working. Data sharpens product intuition, not replaces it.

Engineer Mind

Practical fluency across backend and frontend systems — sharpens judgment on what's possible, what's easy, and when the data isn't worth the plumbing.

Analytics Engineering

The full path from raw data into reliable business insight — data modeling, transformations, and the quality controls that keep data trustworthy at every layer.

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Professional Chronology

Experience

Present – 2025

ZenBusiness

Staff Data Analyst

Mar 2025 – Present

Business Compliance

  • Led renewal pricing analysis uncovering long-term risks and a $2M ARR customer cohort, driving new pricing tests
  • Revamped executive dashboards and reporting workflows via Tableau, uncovering gamified KPIs and ROI misalignment
  • Built an AI agent that surfaced 3-4x more churn signals vs. manual analysis

2024 – 2022

Route

Staff Product Analyst

Oct 2022 – Dec 2024

eCommerce

  • Architected 100+ data models and pipelines, standardizing KPI definitions across Consumer and SaaS products
  • Built first centralized customer profiling system in Databricks — 150+ attributes, 20M+ daily users
  • Led first consumer monetization initiative through customer profiling and iterative experiments, unlocking $2–3M annual revenue

Route

Team Lead / Manager, Analytics & Research

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022

eCommerce

  • Built and grew the product analytics team to 10 analysts, supporting 5+ product lines
  • Improved forecasting accuracy by introducing time series models to predict customer growth trends
  • Promoted a company-wide experimentation culture by training product and engineering teams to design and interpret statistically sound tests

2021 – 2020

Acorns

Senior Data Analyst

Mar 2020 – Sep 2021

Fintech

  • Led analytics for debit card, smart deposit, and money transfer product lines
  • Established KPIs with executives and built interactive Tableau dashboards for cross-functional teams
  • Automated FP&A reporting workflows to deliver timely marketing ROI insights and enhance revenue forecast accuracy

2020 – 2018

Neustar

Data Analyst

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020

Data strategy for marketing science (serves Fortune 500)

  • Led end-to-end data strategy for marketing mix modeling, project management, and Tableau dashboard building
  • Redesigned 100+ data pipelines and sources, partnering with 50+ data providers, cutting project duration by 50%
  • Consulted on data-driven marketing strategies by analyzing complex datasets using Python, SQL, and Tableau

2018 – 2017

Zowdow

Data Analyst (first analyst hire)

May 2017 – May 2018

Mobile Search

  • First data analyst hire, leading analytics, data engineering, and data science for 50M+ mobile users across North America and Southeast Asia
  • Mined 100B+ search records to uncover customer insights and search behaviors, driving product experiments that enhanced user search experiences
  • Built the company's first automated reporting system using Python, Redshift, and Tableau to track KPIs for internal stakeholders and external partners
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Technical Stack

Tools & Technologies

Analytics Engineering

dbt
Snowflake
Databricks
PySpark
S3
mParticle
Redshift

Data Analysis & Science

SQL
Python
Statistics
Experimentation
Optimizely
Split
Amplitude

Business Intelligence

Tableau
Metabase

AI & Development

Claude Code

Data sources: Backend systems, mobile & web events, third-party platforms (Stripe, Mixpanel, AppsFlyer, Braze, mParticle)

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Academic Background

Education

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USC

M.S. Business Analytics

Dec 2016

University of Iowa logo

University of Iowa

B.B.A. Accounting / B.B.A. MIS

Dec 2013

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