Daryl Drake
Principal Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDaryl Drake is a Principal Data Scientist based in Chicago with nine years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade data and trading systems. He blends quantitative rigor from his work as a quantitative developer at Akuna Capital with cloud-native engineering—designing Kafka/Flink streaming pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, and Timescale/Postgres-backed analytics. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at UIUC, he also served as Head Graduate TA for a cloud computing course, reflecting both deep technical chops and strong teaching ability. His background spans bioengineering and medical imaging research to manufacturing and full-stack development, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on data, modeling, and systems. Known for turning exploratory notebooks into robust dashboards and automated ETL workflows, he excels at making complex quantitative insights operational for traders and stakeholders. He enjoys tackling problems that sit at the intersection of real-time systems, scalable analytics, and applied machine learning.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Computer Science, Master's, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHighschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Glenbard West High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dadrake3/resume.github.io
Sep 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
dadrake3/facenet
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Face recognition using Tensorflow
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes in 21 days
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