Daria Shaw
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaria Shaw is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in London with seven years of hands-on experience building data-driven systems, currently scaling ML at DraftKings after progressing quickly from apprentice to senior roles. Trained as a design engineer with advanced degrees in AI and electronic engineering, she blends hardware-minded IoT and microcontroller know-how with production ML and data science practice. Her background in UX research and set decoration hints at a rare combination of technical rigor and creative empathy that informs user-centered model development. Comfortable navigating fast-paced, multidisciplinary teams, she focuses on translating complex signals into reliable features and deployable models for high-throughput environments.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
European Baccalaureate, 74.34%, European Baccalaureate, 74.34% at European School Brussels 3Msc, Artificial Intelligence and Data Specialist, Distinction, Msc, Artificial Intelligence and Data Specialist, Distinction at Northeastern University LondonBachelor of Engineering - BEng, Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering, 1st class, Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering, 1st class at Queen Mary University of London
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (52)
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
testing10
functional-testing10
bayesian9
numba9
pycharm8
cuda8
benchmarking8
parallel8
llvm8
performance-testing7
numpy7
compiler7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
daria-shaw/dotfiles
Oct 2023 - Dec 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 years 1 month
daara-s/ynab-commands
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
Tool to split transactions in 2 for Splitwise
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
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