Andy Upton
Delivery Solutions Architect at Databricks
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Upton is an Engineering Manager for AIML at Nike with nine years of experience building data and ML systems that bridge data engineering, data science, and production machine learning. He leverages a PhD in Anthropology to bring uncommon strengths in social network analysis, unsupervised learning, and interpreting messy, high-dimensional datasets into practical forecasting, recommendation, and ETL solutions. Proficient in R, Python, Spark, and SQL, he has productionized Databricks pipelines, forecasting models, and item-item recommenders at scale across retail and supply-chain domains. A thoughtful leader and communicator, he progressed from hands-on Senior Data/ML Engineer to lead ML roles before stepping into engineering management in 2024. He also has a track record of research funding and academic-firsts—introducing multilayer social network analysis in anthropology—that inform his data-driven, experimental approach to product problems. Based in Portland, he combines rigorous quantitative methods with product-focused delivery to turn complex behavioral signal into actionable systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Anthropology, Bachelor's degree, Anthropology at Miami UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Anthropology at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (44)
eda9
pandas-dataframe9
big-data-analytics9
jupyter-notebook9
unit-test8
python8
medicine8
profiling8
pandas-profiling8
statistics8
exploratory-data-analysis8
spark8
data-quality8
unit-testing8
aws-s38
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ajupton/big-data-engineering-project
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Big Data Engineering practice project, including ETL with Airflow and Spark using AWS S3 and EMR
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
airflowaws-s3big-dataetlspark
ajupton/Ceramic_Dashboard
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 22 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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