Brian Schmidt
Engineering Manager at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Schmidt is an engineering manager and ex-neuroscientist with 13 years of experience translating deep scientific expertise into production machine learning and applied-science solutions. After a PhD and postdoc studying visual neuroscience, he transitioned into industry data science and ML roles at iHeartRadio and then Etsy, where he progressed from senior applied scientist to staff scientist and now leads engineering efforts. He combines rigorous experimental thinking with practical ML engineering to deliver product-facing models and mentor cross-functional teams. Based in New York, he is comfortable bridging research and product priorities, bringing an uncommon background in reverse-engineering biological systems to guide data-driven feature strategy and model interpretability.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at Brown University
Github Skills (11)
sublime-text9
sublime9
routines5
markdown5
matlab4
projector3
matching2
computer-vision2
homebrew1
python1
controlling1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bps10/base
Jul 2013 - Oct 2018
Contributions:66 commits, 17 pushes in 5 years 3 months
bps10/color
Jan 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:137 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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