Brad Yarbro
Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Exiger
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Yarbro is a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience scaling ML and data products across defense and financial services. He progressed from broke student to lead roles by building production-ready models, ETL pipelines, and monitoring systems—most recently driving accelerated underwriting models and model monitoring for Protective Life and leading AI/ML teams at Lockheed Martin. Brad combines an M.S. in Applied Statistics with practical expertise in Python, R, SQL/NoSQL, Tableau, and AWS, and has a track record of reducing reporting times from weeks to daily automated dashboards and shipping recommendation engines for supply chain problems. He hires and mentors junior talent, having stood up Protective’s first intern program and onboarded multiple data scientists. Based in Birmingham, AL, Brad shares career lessons publicly and applies a pragmatic, impact-first approach to deploying robust ML in regulated, operational environments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at The University of AlabamaGithub contributions (5)
bgyarbro/chopsticks-game
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
bgyarbro/bible-text-generator
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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