David Relyea
Director Of Data Science
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Relyea is a Director of Data Science with 11+ years of hands-on and leadership experience building high-performance research, engineering, and analytics teams that move ML innovations into production. With a PhD in Physics from Princeton and a background in signal and image processing, he has led teams at Target and BlackBerry to substantially improve model accuracy and training speed—once rewriting a deep learning codebase to train 10x faster and increase classification accuracy by 15x. He excels at bridging business, product, and engineering to reduce thrash, operationalize models, and create centers of excellence while promoting career growth for individual contributors into senior technical leaders. Past roles span cybersecurity, ad tech, and finance, where he shipped novel algorithms for request filtering, document extraction, and beamforming—demonstrating both research depth and production impact. Based in Seattle, he combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic product-minded execution and a consistent record of turning complex algorithms into scalable, revenue-driving systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (17)
gtk9
python8
overlay8
duplicate8
matplotlib8
qt8
visualization7
hearthstone7
data-visualization7
wpf6
data-science6
computer-vision5
pytorch4
image-processing4
image-preprocessing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
drrelyea/spgl1
Feb 2015 - Oct 2021
Port of SPGL1 to python
Contributions:4 releases, 22 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years 9 months
python
drrelyea/advent_of_code_2020
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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