Brendan Apfeld
Staff Applied AI Engineer at Omada Health
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Apfeld is a Staff Applied AI Engineer in Chicago with a decade of experience applying statistics, causal inference, and NLP to drive measurable business impact. He has led production ML efforts—ranging from transformer-based NLI for customer support to GBM and GAM forecasting that delivered multi-million dollar EBIT improvements—and designed online experiments and multi-armed bandits for robust decisioning. With a PhD in Political Science, he brings rigorous causal thinking (regression discontinuity, synthetic controls, matching) to ambiguous, high-stakes problems and pairs it with strong software engineering in Python, R, Julia, and cloud platforms. Brendan has built end-to-end pipelines, comprehensive test suites, and supervised teams to translate models into operational systems. He’s comfortable moving between research-grade Bayesian analyses and pragmatic engineering, and his background in social science gives him a knack for leveraging quasi-experimental designs to extract causal insight from real-world data.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government at The University of Texas at AustinM.Ed., M.Ed. at University of Notre Dame
Spanish
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Github Skills (45)
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bapfeld/wbstats
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 4 months
r-packageapidownloadingworld-bank-apisearching
bapfeld/bapfeld.github.io
Oct 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 77 pushes, 22 branches in 7 years 6 months
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