Chris Albon
Senior Director Of Machine Learning And Data Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Albon is a seasoned machine learning and data engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building data-driven systems across mission-driven organizations and startups. Currently Senior Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation, he has led ML teams at scale and previously drove data science initiatives at Devoted Health, BRCK, Ushahidi, and FrontlineSMS. He combines academic rigor—a Ph.D. in Political Science studying civil wars and healthcare—with practical product experience as a founder (Popily, Yonder) and author of Machine Learning for Python Cookbook. Known for translating complex research into deployable systems, he’s comfortable bridging policy, humanitarian, and commercial domains to deliver measurable impact. Based in San Francisco, he pairs strategic leadership with hands-on tooling and educational work (Machine Learning Flashcards, a long-running data science podcast), reflecting a commitment to making ML accessible and usable. An uncommon strength is his history of applying ML to low-resource and public-interest settings, which informs how he designs resilient, equitable data systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Political Science, Ph.D., Political Science at University of California, DavisUndergraduate, Political Science, Religious Studies, International Studies, Undergraduate, Political Science, Religious Studies, International Studies at University of Miami
Github Skills (82)
python10
deep-learning10
pandas10
statistics10
science10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
notebook9
ipython9
flask9
bioinformatics9
modeling9
jupyter9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisalbon/code_py
Apr 2014 - Jan 2019
A collection of well-commented code snippets for data science
Contributions:75 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 9 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learning
chrisalbon/mlai
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:613 commits, 15 PRs, 606 pushes in 2 years 10 months
notesdeep-learningartificialmachine-learningartificial-intelligence
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