Summary
Brian Davis is a Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building high-accuracy, explainable AI systems for healthcare and insurance domains. He combines a PhD-level quantitative background with hands-on engineering—leading teams to productize ML into scalable "factory" pipelines that cut deployment time from weeks to days and automated over a third of client workloads. His work spans document layout analysis for PDF extraction, custom loss functions and PyTorch architectures for clinical understanding, and bias-aware methods for molecular binding models. Based in Oakland, he prioritizes accuracy (>95%), transparency, and customer-driven flexibility, and he deliberately factors problems along business process and technical-risk boundaries to deliver pragmatic, auditable solutions. An early-career JavaScript developer turned ML leader, he brings both product-minded engineering and research rigor to production AI.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at San Francisco State University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics at University of Kentucky