Andre Violante
Senior Specialist, Data Science And Generative AI
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolAndre Violante is a data science and generative AI leader with 8+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling ML products across retail, fintech, adtech, and e-commerce, now driving work at NVIDIA. He combines deep technical skills in Python, SQL, R, SaaS/cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and on-premise databases with proven delivery—productizing models for segmentation, churn, propensity, and recommendation systems. Andre has a track record of creating self-service analytics infrastructures and data teams at startups and enterprises (Techstars-backed fintech, IBM, Bolt, SAS), and he deliberately blends experimentation, causal inference, and engineering to turn insights into measurable business outcomes. He’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers and presenting to senior stakeholders, and his background teaching SQL and machine learning underscores a practical, explainable approach to complex models. An unusual detail: he has repeatedly led both R&D/productization efforts and revenue-focused analytics, bridging research with commercial impact.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Machine Learning (Incomplete), Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Machine Learning (Incomplete) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Data Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Data Science at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Management - Marketing, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Management - Marketing at Utah Valley University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (58)
optimus10
jquery9
javascript-react9
javascript-api9
excel9
api9
linkedin9
data-extraction9
rest-api8
mongodb8
data-transformation8
rest8
aws8
aws-lambda8
java8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aviolante/quick_ml_series
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
aviolante/sas-python-work
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:63 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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