David Plotz
Information Technology Specialist
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Plotz is an Information Technology Specialist based in Berkeley with 12 years of experience building production ML systems and full-stack software. He combines a strong mathematical background (BS/MS in Physics and an MS in Statistics) with practical expertise in NLP, deploying solutions using Python, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Flask, MongoDB and ElasticSearch. As a former software engineering lead and co-founder, he has shipped scalable data pipelines, production REST APIs and consumer apps while managing small teams and ensuring reproducibility of results. His applied research work spans classical methods (SVD/LSA, PCA, spectral clustering) to character-level RNNs and GRUs, reflecting a knack for matching algorithmic rigor to business needs. Notably, he has moved legacy research code into maintainable Python and implemented Hadoop-processing prototypes, showing attention to both research correctness and production readiness.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Statistics, Masters Statistics at California State University - East BayBS and Masters Physics, BS and Masters Physics at Hunter College, The City University of New York
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
11reputation
343reached
1answer
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Github Skills (16)
mortar9
science9
cpp9
computer-science8
api6
frequency6
ngram6
python6
corpus6
finance1
elasticsearch-client1
financial1
elasticsearch1
odm1
mapper1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Chuphay/chuphay.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:116 pushes in 2 years
Chuphay/hogwarts
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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