Nathaniel Mahowald
Founder CEO at Pickaxe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Mahowald is a data-driven founder and CEO based in San Francisco, guiding Pickaxe since 2022 with a hands-on, product-focused approach to AI and analytics. Over a decade, he has led data science initiatives across fintech, advertising, and security, blending research rigor with scalable engineering. As Lead Data Scientist at Sivo, he established AB testing best practices and built predictive models for user acquisition and advertising spend optimization, while at C6 Bank he helped launch an internal analytics consultancy. At VODA.ai, he led computer vision projects using satellite data for leak detection, delivering model improvements and user-facing visualizations. He has built end-to-end data pipelines and software tools, from web-scraping pipelines for large datasets to Python-based data products with GUI and text classification. A UC Berkeley data science alum, he co-authored work later published in Applied Network Science and combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical depth.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Data Science, Bachelor’s Degree Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, French
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Github Skills (59)
python10
data-science10
scikit10
statistics10
machine-learning10
neural-networks10
scikit-learn10
data-analysis10
notebooks8
transport7
pytorch7
overpass-api7
spatial-data7
networkx7
gpu7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nathanielmhld/linkedinrecomendations
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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