Andy Eschbacher
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Ethyca
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Eschbacher is a Staff Data Scientist in Washington, D.C. with 11 years of experience building production-grade spatial data science platforms and ML systems. He leads cross-functional engineering teams to design cloud-native geospatial pipelines on GCP, achieving multi-fold performance and cost improvements while introducing ML monitoring and human-in-the-loop validation. His work spans applied research, NLP and transformer-based entity resolution, graph algorithms for service-area optimization, and Kubernetes-powered productionization. Formerly a lecturer in urban spatial analytics and an educator earlier in his career, he brings a strong pedagogy to technical leadership and product strategy. Notably, he transformed manual geospatial processes into automated solutions with 6x efficiency gains and cut database resource use by 90% in Python-based systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at The University of EdinburghMA Physics, MA Physics at The University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (87)
python10
cartodb10
postgis10
cartography10
geolocation10
maps10
data-visualization10
location-services10
data-science10
spatial-data-analysis10
jupyter-notebook10
geospatial10
spatial-analysis10
progress-bar9
pysal9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
andy-esch/desirelines
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
Cycling distance tracker and goal setter
Contributions:5 reviews, 216 PRs, 885 pushes in 10 months
andy-esch/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Nov 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 9 months
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