Andre Zapico
Owner, Consultant at likely llc
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Zapico is a quantitative software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building reusable statistical and computational solutions across academia and industry. He has blended roles as CEO of Likely LLC, a research statistician at the University of Michigan, and a scientific computing developer at SAS, delivering Bayesian forecasting models for sports and advanced fMRI analysis for psychiatry. Trained in mathematics, statistics, and telecommunications engineering, he moves comfortably between Stan-based Bayesian modeling, applied research in medical and gynecological domains, and production-grade software development. Andre favors practical, reusable tooling for real-world data problems and maintains an active portfolio and codebase (github.com/drez) that highlights his mix of research depth and engineering discipline. Located in Detroit, he is open to quantitative or computational contracts and emphasizes solutions that scale from exploratory research to applied deployment.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsJazz Studies / Mathematics, Jazz Studies / Mathematics at Michigan State UniversityMaster of Science Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science Telecommunications Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
bayesian-statistics10
bayesian-data-analysis10
r-package10
python10
machine-learning10
ml10
automatic-differentiation10
bayesian10
deep-learning10
eigen10
tensorflow10
sundials10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
stan10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
drezap/stan
Mar 2019 - Mar 2026
Stan development repository (home page is linked below). The master branch contains the current release. The develop branch contains the latest stable development. See the Developer Process Wiki for details.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
stanmasterdetailswikihome-page
drezap/math
Jan 2018 - May 2026
Stan Math Library
Contributions:248 pushes, 38 branches in 8 years 4 months
mathmathematicsstanmath-librarystan-math-library
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