Alex Sherman
Director, Data Science
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Sherman is a Director of Data Science with 11 years of experience applying NLP and machine learning to customer analytics and personalization at Capital One. He combines hands-on modeling and product-facing delivery with a long history of teaching data science—serving as an instructor and lead faculty at General Assembly—which sharpens his ability to translate complex techniques into practical business impact. His progression from consultant roles at Deloitte to leadership at Capital One shows strength in scaling teams and productionizing analytic solutions in financial services. Alex holds a Master’s in Computer and Information Technology from UPenn and brings a global perspective from exchange programs in Singapore and South Africa that informs his user-centered approach. Notably, he balances strategic leadership with classroom-level detail, often bridging pedagogy and production to upskill teams while driving measurable personalization outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Pennsbury High SchoolBachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration at Fox School of Business at Temple UniversityStudent Exchange Program, Student Exchange Program at Singapore Management UniversityMaster of Computer and Information Technology Computer Science, Master of Computer and Information Technology Computer Science at University of PennsylvaniaStudent Exchange Program, Student Exchange Program at South Africa, York High School
Github Skills (33)
word2vec9
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
fasttext9
corpus9
word-embeddings9
gensim9
topic-modeling9
glove9
nlp9
ibm-watson8
sentence-similarity8
python8
simple-framework8
natural-language-processing8
information-retrieval8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Alexjmsherman/nlp_practicum_cohort3_instructor
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:51 commits in 2 months
Alexjmsherman/General_Assembly_Final_Project
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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