Mike Badescu
Data Scientist And Founder
Coppell, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike Badescu is a data scientist and founder who blends economics, finance, and machine learning to turn data into actionable business insights. Based in Coppell, Texas, he leads Numeract, LLC, delivering end-to-end analytics—from data wrangling and architecture to ML model development, deployment on AWS, and interactive dashboards. He has over fifteen years of analytical and research experience across economics, finance, marketing, and risk analysis, with tools including Python, R, TensorFlow, SQL, Spark, and Docker. His projects span private equity signals, portfolio optimization, anomaly detection, time-series forecasting, and multi-country clustering, plus scalable automation like running R on AWS Lambda and production-grade dashboards. He is an active mentor and educator, having taught at Springboard and held academic roles, bringing rigorous econometric methods to real-world applications. He maintains public repositories at @numeract, reflecting a focus on economics, finance, and data-driven decision making.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech., Manufacturing Technology, B.Tech., Manufacturing Technology at Galway-Mayo Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Business Economics, Ph.D., Business Economics at Lehigh UniversityEconomic Engineering, Economic Engineering at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (134)
htmlwidgets10
r-package10
igraph10
d3js10
social-network-analysis10
memoise9
network-visualization9
plug-in9
shinyapps9
graphs9
dplyr8
shiny8
r8
opentype-fonts8
parser8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
numeract/multinode-multicore-r-shiny
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
numeract/Nmisc
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
Miscellaneous R tools used at Numeract
Contributions:2 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
miscellaneous
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