David Clark
Sr. Data Scientist
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Clark is a Sr. Data Scientist based in San Jose with a decade of experience bridging scientific research and production ML across startups and large companies like Meta and Optum. He brings deep expertise in feature engineering, PySpark/SQL pipelines, and TensorFlow models—delivering impact from click-through-rate recommenders at Meta to size-prediction CNNs and time-series noise detection for sensor and magnetic-field data. Trained as an astronomer (PhD), he combines rigorous experimental design and data visualization with practical software tooling—having built databases, Python packages, and deployed evaluation metrics used in production. Fluent in Spanish and comfortable across domains from genomics to retail, he’s known for turning messy, domain-specific datasets into robust, production-ready models that measurably reduce business friction.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Palo Alto High SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA) Cum Laude Physics with Honors, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cum Laude Physics with Honors at Colby CollegeData Science, Data Science at SpringboardDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy at University of Florida
Spanish
Github Skills (20)
transfer-learning9
nlp8
natural-language-processing7
bert6
machine-learning6
python-bot6
rest-framework6
pytorch6
science5
python5
bots4
api4
rest4
tensorflow4
rest-api4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dmclark53/Wine-Quality
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
PythonWorkshop/intro-to-tensorflow
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:55 commits, 4 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 months
tensorflow
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