Darren Vengroff
Something New at …
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Vengroff is a seasoned scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur with 11 years of post-academic experience and a multi-decade track record leading teams across machine learning, embedded systems, and product R&D. He has held senior technical and leadership roles from SVP at Two Sigma to Chief Scientist positions at Hestan Smart Cooking and RichRelevance, co-founding startups including Pelago and Meld that brought novel consumer and culinary technologies to market. Comfortable shifting between research, hands-on engineering, and strategy, he has advised foundations and startups on digital platforms and market fit while also contributing to academic program design. Currently based in New Jersey, Darren blends deep CS roots (Ph.D. from Brown) with practical product-building, and his recent sabbatical and board service suggest a deliberate pivot toward something new that marries technical depth with civic engagement.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Brown UniversityB.S.E. Computer Science, B.S.E. Computer Science at Princeton University
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Github Skills (72)
python10
pythonic10
maps10
census10
energy-data10
geographic9
geopandas9
ocean9
parallel9
energy9
coordinate-systems9
geography9
optimization9
photovoltaic9
ray9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
censusdis/divintseg
Sep 2022 - Jul 2024
Tools for computing diversity, integration, and segregation metrics on demographic data.
Contributions:4 releases, 11 reviews, 55 PRs in 1 year 10 months
metricsdiversitysegregationcomputing
censusdis/censusdis
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
censusdis is a Python package for discovering, loading and analyzing, U.S. Census demographic, economic, and geographic data and metadata. It is designed to be intuitive and Pythonic, giving users access to the full collection of data and maps the U.S. Census publishes via their APIs.
Contributions:51 releases, 43 reviews, 114 commits in 6 months
analyzingpythondiversitydata-sciencediscovering
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