Christiana Smith
Senior Data Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristiana Smith is a Senior Data Engineer with eight years of experience applying rigorous data science and engineering to healthcare, public safety, and life sciences problems. With a foundation in neuroscience and psychology, she blends domain expertise in neuroimaging and behavioral research with production-grade ETL, ML modeling, and cloud tooling to deliver actionable solutions—most recently building integrated predictive systems for criminal justice mental health outreach and production pipelines at Pfizer. She has driven end-to-end projects from data curation and visualization to model deployment, notably improving top-200 precision by 32% in a county-level recidivism risk model and analyzing 135k cannabis samples to define chemical strain profiles. Comfortable translating technical results for non-technical stakeholders, she combines academic rigor (peer-reviewed publication) with product-focused delivery across startups and enterprise environments. Based in Portland, OR, she seeks data roles that create measurable social impact while leveraging her unique mix of scientific curiosity and engineering discipline.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Data Science, Certificate in Data Science at Galvanize IncBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology and Neuroscience, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Puget Sound
English
Github Skills (30)
instagram9
script9
selenium8
python7
clustering6
automation6
clarifai6
clustering-algorithm6
prediction5
machine-learning4
machine-learning-algorithms4
deep-learning3
docker3
aws3
modeling3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cjsmith015/Machine_Learning_and_ADHD
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:79 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
cjsmith015/Ubuntu_SetUp
May 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:12 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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