Chase Stockwell · Evanston, IL

Senior ML Engineer turned Product Manager — Disney · FIS · Accenture · SAP

I’m Chase Stockwell — a Senior Machine Learning Engineer most recently at Disney, now a Kellogg MBA candidate (Product Management major) with a CS master’s from UT Austin. I’ve owned ML platforms at production scale — a fintech data platform handling 5M transactions/day at FIS — and spent three years at Accenture doing technical product management for Fortune 10 clients.

Target rolesProduct Manager · TPM · ML Engineer
LocationEvanston, IL
MBAKellogg — June 2027
Recruiting forSummer 2027 roles
Previously Seattle, WA MS Computer Science — UT Austin Scrum Master · Azure Fundamentals
Headshot of Chase Stockwell, smiling, in a light blue pinstripe blazer
Chase StockwellSeattle → Evanston

Career history

  1. SAPAssociate Technical Consultant2020 — 2021 · Seattle
  2. AccentureTechnical Product Management Consultant2021 — 2024 · Seattle
  3. FISMachine Learning Engineer2024 — 2026 · Seattle
  4. DisneySenior ML Engineer — Research2026 · Seattle
5M / dayDebit-card transactions handled by the FIS data platform I roadmapped
$2M+Regulatory non-compliance fines mitigated via an ML classification product at Accenture
300+ / daySecurity tickets auto-triaged by the classification engine I specified
25+Stakeholders on the self-service ML platform I launched on AWS SageMaker
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Experience

Six years across Disney, FIS, Accenture, and SAP — owning products and platforms end to end, from roadmap and requirements to shipped systems running at production scale.

2026
Seattle, WA

Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Research · Disney

  • Improved ad targeting and inventory yield by delivering core ML infrastructure for Disney’s Ad ML Platform — pipeline capabilities spanning 3 production models.
  • Accelerated model deployment cycles and improved system reliability, partnering with data science and engineering to set platform benchmarks and architect an LLM-explainability layer.
ML PlatformAd TechLLM ExplainabilityPipelines
2024 — 2026
Seattle, WA

Machine Learning Engineer · Fidelity Information Systems (FIS)

  • Owned vision, strategy, and roadmap end to end for FIS’s Financial Intelligence Data Platform — built to handle 5M debit card transactions/day — running user research and discovery to eliminate developer bottlenecks.
  • Launched a self-service ML platform on AWS (SageMaker), adopted by 25+ stakeholders across data science, ML engineering, and business analysis.
  • Cut cloud inference costs and accelerated experimentation velocity for production XGBoost models.
  • Brought production ML under governance: defined requirements for end-to-end MLOps automation — automated CI/CD and production-level compliance standards — with enterprise governance stakeholders.
  • Led cross-functional delivery across infrastructure, security, compliance, and engineering as the team’s scrum master and all-hands demo presenter.
AWS SageMakerXGBoostMLOps / CI-CDProduct RoadmappingFintech
2021 — 2024
Seattle, WA

Technical Product Management Consultant · Accenture

Client — Fortune 10 e-commerce & retail
  • Mitigated $2M+ in regulatory non-compliance fines by owning end-to-end technical product management for an ML-driven ticketing classification system — aligning technical capabilities with governance requirements.
  • Scaled automated triage to 300+ SQL security tickets daily by authoring the product requirements and system specifications for the classification engine.
  • Eliminated operational bottlenecks across AWS cloud triage queues, building Python text-classification workflows directly with engineering.
  • Led cross-functional alignment and people management across 8 direct reports, and pitched a data scripting product’s transition to an acquiring stakeholder team of 20.
Client — Global tier-1 social network
  • Reduced data pipeline errors by 70% by product-managing an end-to-end health dashboard with 8+ interactive visualizations for operations leaders.
  • Improved hyper-scale hardware availability by 7%, defining data requirements and leading rollout of an automated predictive health reporting system across distributed data-center teams.
Technical PMStakeholder ManagementPythonComplianceData Engineering
2020 — 2021
Seattle, WA

Associate Technical Consultant · SAP

  • Delivered enterprise data migrations into SAP S/4HANA, aligning client requirements with technical implementation milestones across mobile, analytics, and data-transition teams.
S/4HANAData MigrationEnterprise Clients
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Projects & building

Things I’ve built outside the day job — one shipped ML product, one product-design deep dive.

ML Product · Built & launched

Big Fish, Small Pond

A predictive matching engine that helps small universities compete for students on a small marketing budget. Built and launched a clustering-based model over university admissions data to match schools with the prospective students most likely to enroll — product thinking and machine learning in one package.

ClusteringAdmissions Data0 → 1 Product

Product Design · Personal project

OrbitLayer

A wireframe and design study for a platform that ingests large-scale satellite data into a stakeholder-agnostic data layer, so users can query precise space data without wrangling raw feeds. Includes a natural-language query builder and dual-provenance summaries that show base-layer vs. overlay data — with conflicts resolved in the open.

Data PlatformsNL QueryUX WireframesAI Features
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Education

2026 — 2027 · Evanston, IL

Kellogg School of Management

MBA Candidate — Northwestern University

One-year accelerated program. Major: Product Management. Product Management Intern at PlanetIQ, Fall 2026.

2020 — 2023 · Online

University of Texas at Austin

MS, Computer Science

Machine Learning specialization, completed in the online evening & weekend program while working full-time.

2016 — 2020 · New Orleans, LA

Tulane University

BS, Computer Science & Business Management

Minors in Math and Finance · GPA 3.7. Full-stack engineering internship at SAP Concur.

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Skills

The keyword index — product management, ML platform engineering, and the tools behind the work above.

Technical

  • Python ML · automation
  • SQL analytics · triage
  • PyTorch modeling
  • AWS SageMaker · S3 · EC2
  • Spark big data
  • CI/CD MLOps pipelines

Product

  • Product Roadmapping vision → release
  • User Research & Discovery interviews · synthesis
  • A/B Testing experimentation
  • System Architecture technical specs
  • Stakeholder Management exec-facing
  • Agile / Scrum certified Scrum Master

Tools & credentials

  • Tableau dashboards
  • SAP S/4HANA enterprise data
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
  • Scrum Master team delivery
  • Volunteer Instructor Seattle Prep CS · UT Austin
14Marathons · 5 continents

Off the clock, I run — a lot. Fourteen marathons across five continents so far, with Cairo next on the list. The same thing that gets me through mile 22 is what I bring to product work: set the plan, trust the training, and keep moving when it gets hard. I also volunteer as a CS instructor at Seattle Prep and as a supplemental instructor for UT Austin.