As Director of the Data Platform at Stitch Fix, Jeff Magnusson leads the team responsible for building robust and scalable infrastructure and data services that integrate with numerous interfaces across the business. By leveraging machine computation together with expert­human judgement to generate recommendations and insights, these platforms unlock innovative ways to utilize data science and machine learning that optimize and differentiate the way the company operates the business. Prior to Stitch Fix, Jeff managed the Data Platform Architecture team at Netflix, where he helped design and open source many of the components of the Hadoop based infrastructure and big data platform. Jeff holds a PhD from the University of Florida, specializing in database system implementation.