Andrew Nelson
Head Of Machine Learning at DONBLAS
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Nelson is a Head of Machine Learning and founder-level AI engineer with a PhD and a decade of experience translating research-grade inference and systems work into production-ready products. He blends deep technical craftsmanship—from custom microscopes and CUDA kernels to cloud-native Python/TypeScript stacks—with strategic leadership, advising founders and executives on responsibly shipping AI in privacy- and risk-sensitive domains. As founder of Daleego and former CTO of Sandbox Wealth, he has hands-on experience building secure, observable ML systems, shaping roadmaps, and moving teams from experimentation to measurable outcomes. Comfortable at the intersection of research, engineering, and product, he’s known for turning ambiguous AI ambition into defensible, executable plans and for bringing lab-grade rigor to noisy real-world data problems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at The College of William and MaryDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of MaineWeill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
machine-learning9
artificial-intelligence9
matlab9
deep-learning8
llm-inference8
llm8
awk4
arduino2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ajn2004/group_raiding
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
A codebase to organize raiding groups
Contributions:1 review, 79 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 months
Timryanlab/Python-Master
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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