Aaron Rizzuto
Lead Data Scientist
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Rizzuto is a Lead Data Scientist based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience transitioning from astrophysics to industry-focused machine learning and data engineering. He has a proven track record of turning noisy, large-scale time-series data into discovery and product impact—having developed anomaly-detection algorithms that helped discover a large fraction of known young transiting exoplanets and the youngest known transiting hot Jupiter. In industry roles from staffing to senior positions he has applied those skills to production analytics, feature engineering, and explainable models to drive subscription growth and operational insights. Aaron blends deep quantitative modeling, parallel computing and Bayesian methods with hands-on mentoring and cross-institutional collaboration, making him as comfortable leading teams as shipping reproducible code. An accomplished scientist-turned-practitioner, he brings domain rigor and curiosity to practical business problems, often surfacing subtle signals others miss.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Physics, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Physics, 1st Class Honours at Sydney UniversityMacquarie UniversityPenrith High School
Github Skills (40)
temporal10
pytorch-lightning10
uncertainty10
clustering-algorithm9
temporal-data9
prophet9
time-series-forecasting9
forecasting9
python8
clustering8
python-data8
cluster-analysis8
clustering-evaluation8
hdbscan8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arizzuto/Notch_and_LOCoR
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
The Notch and LOCoR pipelines for detrending TESS and K2 lightcurves and identifying planetary signals
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
lightcurvestessplanetarydetrendingnotch
arizzuto/TAURUS2018
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
A place to save things
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
placejsreactjavascriptredux
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