David Pendleton
Lead Data Scientist
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Pendleton is a Lead Data Scientist based in Atlanta with a decade of experience turning engineering problems into production-ready analytics and ML solutions across enterprise and research environments. He has progressed from GE’s Edison rotations—building statistical failure models and automation—to GTRI research work and senior data science roles at Mailchimp/Intuit, and now leads data science at Chick-fil-A’s corporate support center. Skilled in Python, R, and applied ML, he combines hands-on model development with engineering discipline from software and reliability backgrounds, enabling robust surrogate models and analytics used to drive operational decisions. Notably, his early work helped realize multimillion-dollar fleet savings through statistical turbine models, reflecting a talent for translating complex data into business impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at Cleveland State University
Github Skills (24)
nbdev9
literate-programming9
jekyll8
visualization8
jupyter8
seq2seq7
fastai7
python7
jupyter-notebook7
github-pages6
data-science6
bert5
language-model5
datasets4
huggingface4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dpendleton22/Clustering_and_DimReduction
Nov 2018 - Jul 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
dpendleton22/valuebyerror
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 170 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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