David Lisuk
Director Of Engineering at Distyl AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Lisuk is a Director of Engineering and seasoned ML practitioner with 11 years of experience building production-grade model tooling, inference platforms, and full-stack systems. He has led and grown teams at Palantir—owning model management, a Python SDK backed by Java services, and Kubernetes-based inference engines—and now drives engineering at Distyl AI from New York. David blends deep ML engineering (Spark, scikit-learn, computer vision, audio, NLP) with pragmatic productization skills, repeatedly turning research and prototypes into scalable, auditable systems for commercial and government customers. He has a track record of hiring and mentoring engineers, organizing learning programs, and expanding teams while keeping delivery velocity high. Earlier roles in analytics and bioinformatics gave him a strong statistical and scientific grounding that informs his approach to robust model development. Collected across academia and industry, his work emphasizes operationalizing complex ML at scale rather than just building models in isolation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Non Degree Computer Science, Non Degree Computer Science at University of California, San Diego - ExtensionUniversity of California San DiegoMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of California, San DiegoHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Galt HIgh
Github Skills (20)
retrofit8
okhttp7
jetty6
java6
jersey6
json6
rpc5
palantir5
spark-ml4
policies4
github-app4
feign4
python3
apache-spark3
golang3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dlisuk/iDcDashboard
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 1 push in 4 months
dlisuk/restful_rdd
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 9 days
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