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Senior Data Scientist (First Employee): daash.co

May 2021 - present

Key achievements:

Founded and led “Data Acquisition” team as principal/lead engineer (3 engineers)

Sole person responsible for 98% uptime over 4 years of ETL pipeline mining more than 1B+ web signals per day from APIs, 40 million requests per day

Independently wrote reliable (2-3 years of use) and fast (50,000+ pages/min) containerized web crawlers in Python Scrapy capable of bypassing bot detection and “broad crawls” (one crawler for 10,000+ domains)

Architected serverless web crawler infrastructure on AWS in an IaC (modularized, remote state Terraform) dev/stage/prod SDLC environment on Github, 1-3 minute deployments per crawler

Founded and co-led “Data Processing” team (7 engineers)

Designed ETL framework in AWS Glue using Pyspark and SQL using Athena (S3 storage/data warehousing) to pre- and post-process data intelligently and quickly, compressing size by 95%+

Wrote custom machine learning algorithm (iterative KMeans) to save 80%+ on scrape volume, reducing operational risk while maintaining informational value

Wrote statistical sampling methodology to save up to 66% on scrape volume, ensuring crawler defensibility

Wrote statistical and mathematical models (Python pandas, operationalized for scale in PySpark) to generate customer-facing sales and revenue projections, achieving accuracy of up to 60%

Co-owned patent of proprietary analytical software for data quality

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Engineered mobile- and desktop-friendly portfolio website in React using Next.js framework

Implemented Tailwind.css for responsive styling

Crafted 3-D models in Blender integrated with react-three-fiber, a Three.js renderer, to foster user interactivity

Designed a portfolio website that showcases professional skills, contributing to a compelling personal brand and online presence

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