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Reily Fairchild

reily.fairchild [at] gmail.com

Hello!

I am an early-career technologist, committed to using data and strategic management to drive public impact. I recently completed a dual degree in Applied Mathematics and Data Science at UC Berkeley.

I integrate creativity and collaboration in my approach to build human-centered tools for resource-constrained organizations. My background spans product management at the National ACLU, technical product management at Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases, and privacy research at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). I am currently a Project Manager leading a county-wide anti-displacement analysis at the Collective Impact Data & Research Lab.

Education

University of California, Berkeley Aug 2023 – Dec 2025
B.A. Applied Mathematics · B.A. Data Science
GPA 3.86 — Distinction in General Scholarship (equivalent to cum laude); Dean’s List every semester
University of California, Los Angeles Sep 2021 – May 2023
Transferred to UC Berkeley

Professional Experience

Project Manager & Analyst
Jan 2026 – Present Berkeley, CA
  • Designed a housing-instability risk report template adopted across San Mateo County’s 21 jurisdictions, authoring 26 of its 32 visualizations in R from ACS, HUD, DataQuest, and commercial datasets.
  • Cut per-report production time to 1-2 weeks by routinizing the research and analysis workflow; recruited and lead 4 undergraduate analysts through the countywide rollout.
  • Promoted to project manager of a year-long, multi-phase county study; own roadmap and review cycles with county Department of Housing leadership, city housing staff, and the 21 Elements planning collaborative.
  • Translate technical findings into anti-displacement policy recommendations that feed jurisdictions’ state-required housing element fair-housing analyses.
Technical Product Manager & Data Lead
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 Berkeley, CA
  • Independently designed, built, and shipped the journal’s first operational web app, serving as principal technical liaison to journal leadership for two years.
  • Led 30+ undergraduates in iterative feature delivery, including AI-assisted peer-reviewer matching, conflict-of-interest flags, dynamic preprint cycles, a student badge system, and productivity dashboards.
  • Scaled the global editorial network 8x to 1,500+ student editors across 12 countries and 4 continents, compressing the review cycle from months to weeks to enable 320+ published peer reviews.
Jan 2026 – Apr 2026 Remote
  • Conducted early-stage research on statistical reliability of big-data dragnet surveillance for upcoming report.
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 New York City, NY
  • Supported the beta rollout of a national platform migration, transitioning the first 15 affiliate sites.
  • Authored national-to-affiliate technical and content-alignment documentation, ran QA tests, and coordinated issue resolution with developers.
  • Built Heap analytics dashboards to track KPIs, presented to the National Product and Engineering team.issue resolution by triaging affiliate support tickets in GitHub and consolidating stakeholder feedback into a centralized training library, accelerating user onboarding.
Maintenance Manager
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Aug 2024 – Dec 2025 Berkeley, CA
  • Performed facilities maintenance for a 60-bed cooperative residence (e.g., plumbing, carpentry!), ensured fire safety compliance, and coordinated with contractors on large-scale repairs within house budgets.
Literacy Tutor for Incarcerated Adults
Teach in Prison
Jan 2024 – May 2025 San Quentin, CA
  • Provided weekly ESL instruction to incarcerated adults at San Quentin State Prison, supporting residents toward GED certification.
Sustainability Co-Director
UCLA USAC Facilities Commission
Jun 2022 – Apr 2023 Los Angeles, CA
  • Coordinated the pilot for UCLA's reusable dining ware program, securing vendor systems and stakeholder funding across UCLA Dining and Sustainability departments; initiative has since reached 5,040 users, diverting ~1,000 lbs of waste and saving ~2 tons of CO₂.
Product Manager
UCLA Creative Labs
Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 Los Angeles, CA
  • Founded BruinHive, a peer-mentoring platform connecting students across UCLA; defined product requirements and engagement mechanics for a two-sided user base of mentors and mentees.
  • Directed a 6-person team (2 design, 4 developers) from concept through full design and functional prototype.
Associate Data Researcher
UCLA Sustainability Action Research
Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 Los Angeles, CA
  • Designed a controlled experiment on dormitory HVAC energy use; cleaned and joined multi-source sensor data in Google Sheets to correlate heating/cooling degree days against standardized energy use. [Final Report]

Project Spotlights

TIMS Analysis Preview

TIMS Bicycle Crash Analysis

A collaborative analysis of bicycle collision patterns using spatial clustering and statistical modeling. Built for Stat 159: Reproducible Data Science, the project emphasizes open-source workflows, Python-based EDA, and interactive visualizations.

102 Analysis Preview

U.S. Utility Plant Location and Demand Analysis

Built for Data 102: Data Inference and Decisions, the project encompasses uses multiple hypothesis testing and causal inference techniques while exploring the real-world implications of predatory plant-siting practices and economic factors in electricity demand.