Jimmy Nguyen is currently a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn, where he uses analytics, insights, and experimentation to guide strategic decisions for the data powering LinkedIn’s Economic Graph. The son of Vietnamese refugees and a Silicon Valley native, Jimmy was one of LinkedIn’s first HR to Engineering transfers, transforming himself from Analyst to Data Scientist over the course of 4.5 years through a part-time Masters in Statistics, online courses, and a plethora of side-projects. He believes that persistence, when coupled with a good attitude, are some of the best tools one can have in any pursuit of life.
