Reshama is a statistician/data scientist consultant based in New York City. She has an M.S. in statistics from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.

Reshama Shaikh is the Director of Data Umbrella. She is a passionate open source contributor and advocate, and she is on the Contributing Teams for scikit-learn and PyMC. She was awarded the Community Leadership Award from NumFOCUS in 2019 and is a Python Software Foundation Fellow.

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