Allen Grimm
Founder at Grimm Science
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAllen Grimm is a founder and data scientist with 12 years of experience turning mathematical abstraction into production-ready ML and decision systems from Portland, Oregon. He builds end-to-end solutions—uplift modeling, reinforcement learning, recommender systems, OCR for ancient scripts, and bespoke search—bridging research, back-end engineering, and cloud operations. At CVS Health he optimized a Python/Spark uplift package to go from six-hour to five-minute training and materially improved model decision functions, while his consultancy Grimm Science has delivered diverse projects for clients including MIT and Coursedog. Comfortable with low-data problems and constrained deployments, he packages complex optimization and constraint solvers as containerized services and integrates them into AWS-based pipelines. He combines deep electrical engineering training with practical software engineering, often inventing hybrid approaches (e.g., semi-supervised linguistic spam filters and word2vec-based keyword mapping) to minimize human labeling. Colleagues count on him to move proofs-of-concept into robust, maintainable systems that measurably improve decisions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.47, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.47 at Gannon UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.62, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.62 at Portland State University
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Github Skills (23)
ubuntu9
pandas9
origami9
python9
parsing9
bioinformatics9
flask9
sequence9
integration-testing6
orm6
flask-restful6
django-rest-framework6
flask-sqlalchemy6
numpy6
django6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TheGrimmScientist/SlidesFromTalks
Nov 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
TheGrimmScientist/csgo
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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