Tegan Bunsu Ashby is the Director of Software Engineering in Baseball R&D for the Philadelphia Phillies, where she leads the application development, data engineering, and infrastructure teams.
Before joining the Phillies as the Assistant Director of Software Engineering in January 2023, she worked in basketball for several seasons with the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers, building applications and visualizations to empower front office decision making and help win games.
Tegan is also the co-founder of the Women in Sports Data Symposium and Hackathon, a game-changing initiative to amplify womenās voices in sports analytics across the technical spectrum. She holds degrees in Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied symbolic systems, formal syntax, ancient Mesopotamian languages, and the worldās oldest spreadsheets.