Daniel Cunningham
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Cunningham is a Senior Data Scientist based in Chicago with eight years of experience building production ML systems, recommender engines, and MLOps foundations. He helped drive over half of Kroger’s e-commerce revenue by developing personalized recommender systems at 84.51˚ and has practical experience operationalizing models, A/B testing, and creating tooling to accelerate data science workflows. Now at Equity Residential, he continues to bridge statistics, data engineering, and deployment practices to deliver measurable business impact. His background includes enterprise healthcare systems work at Epic, where he reduced performance failures by over 50% and led technical teams—an indicator of his mix of hands-on engineering and leadership. Trained with an MS in Statistics from the University of Chicago and a BS in Materials Science, he brings analytical rigor and systems thinking to complex, real-world problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, BS, Materials Science and Engineering at University of ConnecticutMS, Statistics, MS, Statistics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (25)
strava-api10
sports-data10
python9
historical9
rails9
strava9
espn9
gpx9
shell9
operating-system8
ruby-on-rails8
api8
ruby8
statistics7
rest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
djcunningham0/Statcast-player-projections
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:120 commits, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
djcunningham0/poker-elo-dashboard
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 28 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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