Brandon Mark
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PitchBook
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Mark is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Seattle with eight years of experience blending neuroscience research and applied ML to tackle complex, data-rich problems. With a PhD in Neuroscience and postdoctoral experience at University of Oregon and University of Washington, he translates rigorous experimental thinking into production-ready models at companies like PitchBook and Tektonic AI. He has progressed from academic discovery to shaping ML systems in finance and applied-AI startups, focusing on extracting signal from noisy, high-dimensional data. Known for bridging domain expertise and engineering pragmatism, he pairs hypothesis-driven analysis with scalable implementation. An unassuming detail: his background in neural systems informs how he designs feature representations and causal-aware experiments for model robustness. Based in Seattle, he thrives at the intersection of research, product impact, and engineering craft.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of OregonBachelor's degree, Neuroscience, Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience at Penn State University
Github Skills (16)
microscopy7
large-image6
biomedical-image-processing6
image-data5
matrix5
mesh5
neuroscience4
network-analysis4
datasets4
python4
serverless3
computer-vision3
numpy2
image-annotation2
big-data2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bjm5164/rotation_projects
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 25 pushes in 2 months
bjm5164/Mark2020_larval_development
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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