David Ascienzo
Head Of ML Engineering at Ngo Consulting Partners
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Ascienzo is Head of ML Engineering with a PhD in Physics and nine years turning scientific rigor into production-grade machine learning and data platforms. He blends deep modeling experience—reinforcement learning, complex networks, PyTorch/TensorFlow—and broad engineering fluency across Python, Go, TypeScript, BigQuery/Snowflake, and MLOps tooling to ship reliable, scalable solutions. His career spans research-driven experimental design to leadership roles at Shipt, LendingTree, and startups, demonstrating an ability to move projects from prototyping to operational deployment. Former academic researcher with multiple first-author publications, he brings a habit of careful measurement and numerical modeling that often surfaces subtle domain insights others miss. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on implementation with team-level strategy, mentoring engineers to close the gap between applied math and business impact.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkMaster of Arts - MA Physics, Master of Arts - MA Physics at Hunter College
English
Stackoverflow
1,071reputation
110kreached
27answers
4questions
machine-learning
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neural-network
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Github Skills (30)
machine-learning9
neural-network9
sequential9
phpbb8
bandit8
scrapy7
scraper7
forum7
streaming7
crawler7
multiprocessing6
jupyter-notebook6
screen-scraping6
cross-entropy6
anaconda6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dascienz/ufo-sightings
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Dascienz/phpBB-forum-scraper
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Python-based web crawlers for scraping phpBB forum posts.
Contributions:17 commits, 12 PRs, 31 pushes in 9 months
web-crawlerspythonscrapyforum-postsphp
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