David Carlson
VP - Analytics Architecture at Northern Trust Corporation
Palatine, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Carlson is a VP of Analytics Architecture with 13 years of experience translating ML/AI, NLP, and geospatial analytics into measurable business impact across financial and insurance sectors. He has advanced from actuarial roles into data science leadership, building analytics platforms and deployment capabilities at Zurich and guiding customers and products at Databricks and Dataiku. Known for mentoring high-performing teams, he bridges business, analytics, and IT to deliver production-ready models and scalable data architectures. Based in Palatine, IL, he combines deep quantitative training in mathematics with practical experience operationalizing models for underwriting, claims, and enterprise analytics. A pragmatic innovator, he favors continuous improvement and modern tooling to move projects from prototype to production while keeping stakeholders aligned.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Drake University
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Github Skills (63)
html-help-workshop10
chm10
excel-dna10
command-line-utility10
excel10
xlsx9
csharp8
jupyter7
html7
jupyter-notebook7
syntax6
backend6
julia6
jupyter-kernels6
grammar6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ZurichPA/honeycomb
Jun 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
backendhivedplyr
Excel-DNA/ExcelDnaDoc
Nov 2013 - Sep 2017
Command-line utility to create a compiled HTML Help Workshop file (.chm) for Excel-DNA
Contributions:93 commits, 11 pushes, 3 comments in 3 years 10 months
xlsxdnaworkshopchmcommand-line-utility
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