Vinod works at Netflix where he builds causal inference and machine learning models to understand subtitle and dubbing quality. Before Netflix, Vinod worked at Pinterest and Coursera. He holds degrees in Economics, Biology, and Statistics from UC Berkeley and began his career in quantitative finance where he also disliked the soul crushing work. In addition to his professional experience, Vinod is a political junky who builds election forecasting models with his work appearing in the NY Times among other places. When he is not analyzing data on his computer, Vinod is creating cocktail recipes (without using Chat GPT)