Susan is a Principal Data Scientist at Elastic (of Elasticsearch), with previous ML experience in fintech at Canadian tech unicorn Clearco, social, and telecom. She is a Python Software Contributing member for her open-source contributions. Susan is also a frequent conference speaker, having given talks at 5 PyCons worldwide, as well as Data Science Europe, Toronto ML Summit, and Ubisoft. In her free time, she founded Quill Game Studios, which has scaled up to 10 staff.