From Data Analyst to Senior DS Manager at Skyscanner

How an engineer wandered into data, grew into a modeller and ended up running teams at Skyscanner.

Nov 13, 2025

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Fellow Data Tinkerers,

Following on from previous posts talking to people in the field, today I will be talking with Jose Parreño Garcia who is a Senior Data Science Manager at Skyscanner and writer of the Senior Data Science Lead newsletter.

We talked about his rise from data analyst to Senior DS Manager at Skyscanner, what “production-ready” really means and why the real intelligence in data science lives before and after the model.

So without further ado, let’s get into it!

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A guest post by

Jose Parreño Garcia

I write about Data Science, Machine Learning and leading data teams. I have built teams from scratch and lead 50+ data scientists @Skyscanner. Now, I share my experience with you.