Damian Eads
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Voltron Data
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDamian Eads is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and founder with 14+ years building production-grade AI and ML systems from model training to inference. He founded Wise.io (acquired by GE), where he led development of a memory-efficient ML stack—WiseML—with innovations in out-of-core dataframes, cache-efficient random forests, and high-throughput I/O for large heterogeneous tabular datasets. His career spans research and industry roles at Cambridge, Los Alamos, UC Berkeley and Drone.io, blending deep algorithmic contributions (new boosting and sequence alignment methods) with pragmatic engineering like container tooling and CI support. An early open-source contributor, he authored tools such as paratext for parallel text processing and Buddy for container management, reflecting a habit of shipping reusable research-quality code. Based in Oakland, he combines a CS PhD and postdoc pedigree with a knack for turning advanced ML research into scalable, mission-critical products across industries.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, Minors: Mathematics, Psychology, 3.62/4.00 GPA, 3.74/4.00 Major GPA, B.Sc., Computer Science, Minors: Mathematics, Psychology, 3.62/4.00 GPA, 3.74/4.00 Major GPA at Rochester Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California Santa CruzHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma, High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ridgefield High School
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Github Skills (13)
windows10
compatibility10
csv10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cicd10
csv-parser10
dockers9
build-automation9
docker9
data-engineering8
testing8
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wiseio/paratext
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
A library for reading text files over multiple cores.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Data Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Data EngineerContributions:19 commits, 43 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily focused on adapting the Travis CI configuration for macOS builds, including installing necessary dependencies and addressing syntax errors. They updated the project's version number and made several changes to support Windows compatibility, modifying code and build processes. Additional contributions included fixing a bug related to data handling in the CSV parser and iterating on iterating over text column feature.
python-bindingsreading-text-filesc-plus-plustext-filescores
deads/paratext
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 day
text-filescoresreading-text-files
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