Pooja Doctor
Analytics Lead at Stellar Development Foundation
Pooja Doctor is the Analytics Lead at the Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit organization creating equitable access to the global financial system through blockchain technology.
Before Stellar, she started her career as a Data Scientist at Thumbtack, with a detour into Data Engineering along the way. Across both roles, she's regularly presented insights and analysis to executive audiences, bridging the gap between raw data and business decisions. She's spent her career across the full data stack, from pipelines to self service BI to data science and ML methods - and is currently obsessed with building AI-native analytics workflows.
Talks
Data Con LA 2026
From Zero to Insights: Building Reliable AI driven Analytics from Scratch
How the Stellar Development Foundation built an analytics function from scratch — and how a semantic layer plus context engineering made AI-driven analytics genuinely reliable.