Alex Fitts
Data Scientist
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Fitts is a data scientist and former astrophysics researcher with a decade of experience turning massive, distributed scientific datasets into actionable insights. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and built and analyzed 100+ TB simulation outputs on 1000+ process supercomputing clusters, skills he now applies to cyber analytics at PUNCH. Technically fluent in the Python SciPy stack, PyTorch/FastAI, OpenCV, NLP tools, and SQL, he bridges deep learning, computer vision, and statistical modeling to solve complex detection and classification problems. Comfortable across hardware and software layers, he has practical experience with low-level data formats (HDF5, binary) and high-throughput scripting and pipelines. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering, often translating novel research methods into production-ready analytics. Colleagues describe him as goal-oriented and self-driven, with a knack for adapting astronomy-scale data techniques to real-world cyber and data science challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics at The University of Texas at AustinThe University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, cum laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, cum laude at University of Connecticut
English
Github Skills (14)
python5
astronomy5
api5
geophysics5
simulations5
kaggle4
visualization4
finite-element-analysis4
astrophysics4
scientific-visualization3
oceanography3
machine-learning3
scientific-computing3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
afitts/kaggle
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019
Location for all my kaggle machine learning projects
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 10 months
kagglemachine-learning
afitts/afitts.github.io
Jun 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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