David Carton
Data Scientist
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Carton is a data scientist with eight years' experience translating complex, noisy datasets into business impact, currently designing auction mechanisms to optimize sustainable ad revenue at trivago. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD, Leiden), he brings strong Bayesian statistical modelling, machine learning and pipeline automation skills developed while leading instrument commissioning and Hubble time-winning research. He combines commercial awareness from industry placements like S2DS—where his work reduced forecast uncertainty by 65% and accelerated ROAS assessment 9x—with a track record of shipping robust, production-ready analytic systems. Notably comfortable moving models from research-grade forward-modelling to scalable production deployments, he thrives on problems that require both numerical rigor and clear business translation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Leiden UniversityMPhys, Physics and Astronomy, First Class Honours, MPhys, Physics and Astronomy, First Class Honours at Durham University
English, French, German
Github Skills (7)
python-data7
muse7
astronomy7
astrophysics6
python6
data-analysis4
galaxy2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Team-Cloudbusters/cloudbusting
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 27 days
cartondj/metaldisc
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Forward modelling of galaxy metallicity profiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
modellinggalaxyforward
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