DATA SCIENTIST — PRODUCT & MARKETPLACE ANALYTICS

Johann
Piedras

7+ years across product analytics, search relevance, fraud analytics, and marketplace operations — plus 10+ years running e-commerce and digital operations first-hand.

Vancouver, WA · open to relocation johannpiedrasml [at] gmail [dot] com
Johann Piedras
$30K→$250K+
monthly gross sales scaled on Whatnot in <12 months
2M+
transaction rows behind executive fraud analytics
10,000+
employees served by search platform I improved
$60K+
sales from my own multichannel vintage business
01 — EXPERIENCE

Where I’ve worked.

Jan 2025 — Present
Founder & Operator · Lovos Vintage

Founded and scaled a profitable multichannel vintage apparel business — custom storefront, Depop, eBay, Whatnot, regional markets — generating $60K+ in sales across 1,500+ items, with channel-level reporting guiding sourcing, pricing, and allocation.

Apr 2025 — May 2026
Technical Operations Consultant · New Friend Vintage

Helped scale a Whatnot live-selling channel from ~$30K to $250K+ monthly gross in under 12 months: show structure, curation, bulk listing workflows, and KPI tracing across a ~30-person operation.

Feb 2023 — Apr 2025
Lead Data Scientist · Straive

Led a commercial AI check-fraud platform from prototype to production handoff — OCR, computer vision, and NLP combined into explainable indicators. Pilots showed ~30% lower review time and 25% fewer false-positive investigations.

Jun 2021 — Feb 2023
Senior Data Scientist · EXL (PNC Bank)

Analyzed 2M+ transaction rows with Python, SQL, and Tableau; built fraud-ring dashboards and executive reporting presented directly to the VP and President of Fraud Analytics. Cut manual data prep ~40%.

Jan 2021 — Jun 2021
Data Scientist · American Express

Improved an internal Apache Solr search platform serving 10,000+ employees — search-log and zero-result analysis contributing to a ~34–35% increase in platform usage.

Earlier roles going back to April 2014 — request the full CV →
02 — PRODUCTS

Things I’ve built.

yanni.app
Yanni

Photo-first inventory & POS platform for resellers. Next.js/TypeScript PWA — 61 API routes, 16-model Postgres schema, OpenCLIP visual search, Stripe billing. Used live at markets and Whatnot shows.

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lovosvintage.com
Lovos Vintage

My own multichannel vintage apparel business: custom storefront, ~2,000-item inventory system, 1M+ monthly Instagram impressions, and services offered to other vendors.

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github.com/Llovos
GitHub

Source for Yanni and Vintage Shirt Tracker — a reverse-image-search pricing tool (FastAPI, OpenCLIP + pHash, Google Lens price aggregation) self-hosted on a Linux VPS.

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03 — SKILLS

What I work with.

Product & Marketplace
KPI & metric design Funnel & engagement analysis Search analytics Experimentation Dashboards & self-service reporting Seller & buyer workflows
Engineering
TypeScript Next.js React Python FastAPI Prisma Supabase Stripe Vitest Sentry Vercel Linux / VPS / Nginx
ML & Methods
Computer vision OCR (Textract, TrOCR, EasyOCR) YOLOv7 Siamese networks OpenCLIP NLP & topic modeling Anomaly detection Apache Solr
EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Statistics
University of California, Davis
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE
Computer Programming
Santa Monica College
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE
Python Data Science
The DevMasters
04 — CONTACT

Let’s talk.

Open to data science roles in product and marketplace analytics, plus founder and consulting conversations.

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