David Rust-smith
Machine Learning Engineer at OpenAI
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Rust-smith is a Staff Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and software engineering to social good, currently leading model development at Thorn to prevent child sexual abuse. His background spans product-focused roles at Google (Verily and Access) and entrepreneurial ventures where he built web and mobile apps for nonprofits, blending technical delivery with social impact. Comfortable across the stack—from C#, JavaScript, and Python to data-driven healthcare and device analytics—he excels at turning sensitive, real-world problems into deployable, ethical solutions. A serial volunteer and social-good enthusiast, he brings a rare combination of startup grit, large-tech rigor, and a persistent focus on measurable societal outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Honours Co-op Computer Science, BCS Honours Co-op Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
perceptual10
efficientnet9
chrome-extension9
chrome9
object-detection8
labeling8
automl8
annotations8
segmentation8
classification8
image-labeling8
jupyter8
datasets7
clustering7
imagenet7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
davidrs/onnx_clip
Jun 2024 - Jun 2026
An ONNX-based implementation of the CLIP model that doesn't depend on torch or torchvision.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years
davidrs/open-global-guesser
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
A open source game where you guess your location in the world based on StreetView
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
gameguesslocationopen-source-gamestreetview
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