Cole Juracek
Data Scientist
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Juracek is a data scientist with nine years of professional experience who blends a computer science foundation from Colorado State University with advanced statistical training as a Master's student at Duke. Currently at Proofpoint, he applies machine learning and NLP—having built LSTM models in PyTorch and topic models with Gensim and spaCy—to deliver actionable security insights and content recommendations. He has hands-on experience taking prototypes to production-oriented solutions and documenting labeling decisions to improve data quality and model reliability. Prior software internships and customer-facing roles sharpen his ability to translate technical results into clear business impact and user-facing outcomes. Based in Durham, NC, he brings a pragmatic mix of engineering rigor and statistical thinking, with a particular knack for extracting structure from text corpora.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science (Major) and Mathematics (Minor), Graduate, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science (Major) and Mathematics (Minor), Graduate at Colorado State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Statistical Science, Master of Science - MS, Statistical Science at Duke University
English
Github Skills (66)
python10
statistics10
critical-css10
data-science10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
scikit-learn10
scikit9
sentence9
image9
electra9
eleventy9
similarity9
packaging9
sentence-similarity9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cjuracek/Collapsed_LDA
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:27 PRs, 47 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 10 months
cjuracek/flappy-bird
Apr 2018 - Jan 2024
Pygame Flappy-Bird game with reinforcement learning
Contributions:10 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 10 months
flappy-birdpythongameflappy-bird-gamepygame
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