David Reed
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Klaviyo
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Reed is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Boston with 12 years of experience building production ML systems, full‑stack tools, and data-driven products across industry and research settings. He currently architects AI platform capabilities at Klaviyo after leadership and hands‑on roles at Alteryx and a multi-role tenure at Thomson Reuters where he combined data science, UI design, and backend engineering. His work spans signal processing, time-series and holiday-aware feature engineering—evidenced by significant contributions to the popular open-source Featuretools library adding date/time and holiday primitives and tests. Comfortable from cloud ML infra to front-end visuals, he brings a rare blend of systems rigor and product-focused design, rooted in an MS in Electrical Engineering and early technical leadership in defense and naval communications.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Electrical Engineering, Masters of Science Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (18)
python10
data-science10
pandas10
machine-learning10
feature-engineering10
testing9
scikit9
scikit-learn9
data-analysis8
time-series8
automl7
concurrency6
lxml6
python-multithreading6
multithreading6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alteryx/featuretools
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
An open source python library for automated feature engineering
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:4 releases, 108 reviews, 55 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:David significantly contributed to the `featuretools` library, primarily by implementing new transform primitives focused on date and time manipulations, specifically related to holidays and time-based calculations. Their work involved writing new code for the `DateToHoliday` and `DistanceToHoliday` primitives. The user was also responsible for adding tests and updating documentation, demonstrating a focus on feature engineering and ensuring the functionality and accuracy of the library's components.
python-librarypythondata-scienceautomated-machine-learningmachine-learning
dvreed77/catanbot
Jan 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 7 years 1 month
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