Daniel Shields
Vice President at Two Sigma
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Shields is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of experience guiding high-performance software and machine learning teams, currently serving as Vice President at Two Sigma in Houston. He has a strong background in high-throughput, parallel C++ systems and Python infrastructure from prior roles at SRI and PDT Partners, where he rebuilt legacy codebases, optimized performance, and introduced CI pipelines for mission-critical trading systems. Daniel combines hands-on technical rigor—boosting image-processing throughput and rewriting core libraries—with operational focus on engineering processes and ML productionization. He has led productization efforts for complex geo-registration and tracking systems and overseen integrations with prime broker systems, demonstrating an ability to translate research prototypes into deployable, scalable systems. Trained in mathematics and computer science at Rutgers, he brings a rare mix of algorithmic depth and practical systems engineering to financial and defense-grade software.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Burlington County CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at Rutgers University
Github Skills (14)
programming-language10
spark10
sql10
python10
jdbc10
java10
callgraph10
r10
scala10
apache-spark9
big-data9
data-engineering7
parquet7
apache-arrow6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
twosigma/uberjob
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
uberjob is a Python package for building and running call graphs.
Contributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 2 months
callgraphpythondata-engineering
daniel-shields/cpython
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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