Hi, I'm Logan McKerlich
Data Scientist.
About Me
I'm a data scientist at PACCAR Parts, working on projects that often overlap with supply chain and pricing.
A few highlights from my work there include:
- Building a lead time forecasting pipeline that accounted for live supply chain factors as well as historical supplier patterns. This project resulted in a ship date accuracy improvement of two weeks.
- Building two self-serve analytics applications. One was a central analytics hub for our salespeople, including advanced geospatial analysis of sales regions and identifying high-value sales opportunities. This included a LangChain agent that made some of the larger datasets much more usable for salespeople in the field. The second was for workforce management across PPD's warehouse network and is actively used by managers to help evaluate employees.
- Enhancing projects involving safety stock forecasting and bulk trailer optimization.
If you're interested in seeing a summary of my professional career, here is a link to my resume that is hopefully up to date.
I would like this website to be a place where I can share who I am without worrying about using buzzwords recruiters like, or optimizing for AI agents parsing my resume.
Here I will talk more about how I tie my professional skills into my personal interests and passions. I intend to share some of the things I learn along the way. I find that when I apply my technical skills to my hobbies, I often think about them in a different way that leads to a deeper understanding of the topic.
I rowed competitively in college, and one of my main passions these days is fitness, especially cycling. There is a great overlap between cycling and data science because I am able to collect so much data on my rides. Follow me on Strava if you want to see me manufacture training data (“training data” double entendre). I have a lot of ideas I want to build on top of this data, and as I work on them I will update this website.