Brandon Watts
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Scorpion
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Watts is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Richmond, VA, with a decade of industry experience and a strong academic foundation from VCU and Georgia Tech's ML master's program. He builds production-ready ML and data platforms—moving models from research to scalable enterprise analytics—drawing on formal training in mathematics and statistics to collaborate closely with data scientists. His career spans roles from data engineering to senior ML positions at CarMax and Scorpion, where he focuses on robust code, model deployment, and feature engineering. Early NLP research work included LSTM-based named entity recognition for scientific literature and packaging models as Flask APIs, reflecting a practical bent for making research consumable. Known for combining rigorous academic methods with production engineering, he excels at turning complex data insights into business value.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science Machine Learning Specialization, Master of Science Computer Science Machine Learning Specialization at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
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Github Skills (43)
azure10
azure-sdk9
dotnet9
python9
azure-data-factory6
large-language-models6
monitoring6
evaluation6
azure-cosmos-db6
llama-index5
llm5
analytics5
agent-framework5
multimodal5
microsoft5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NLPatVCU/VCU-VIP-Nanoinformatics
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:66 commits, 9 PRs, 67 pushes in 6 months
brandonwatts/StudentRecruitmentApp
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:38 PRs, 99 pushes, 50 branches in 1 month
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