David Smith - Founder Fractional Head Of Data & AI

David Smith

Founder Fractional Head Of Data & AI

Miami, Florida, United States

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David Smith is a Head of Data & AI who turns analytics and AI engineering into measurable revenue and efficiency gains, with a decade of experience building production-grade, governed data ecosystems. He has led global teams and shipped solutions across sectors—from LLM-powered sales workflows and agentic AI demos to marketing mix models and multi-touch attribution that materially cut CAC and boosted registrations. As a Fractional CDO and former Chief Data Officer at TheVentureCity, he scaled a 7-person international data org, built Growth Scanner for 100+ startups, and published an open-source Data Pipeline Toolkit. Comfortable in ambiguity, he rapidly adapts proven frameworks to new contexts, prioritizing speed-to-value and measurable business outcomes over proofs of concept. His background in civil engineering (Rice) and an MBA from Wharton combine structural thinking with finance-driven strategy, and he’s demonstrated hands-on rapid delivery by building an MCP server + API with Claude Code in under eight hours.

11 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis Statistics, Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis Statistics at Coursera

BS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at Rice University

Data Analyst Nanodegree Data Analysis, Data Analyst Nanodegree Data Analysis at Udacity

MBA Finance and Strategic Management, MBA Finance and Strategic Management at The Wharton School

French, Spanish

Github Skills (8)

google-sheets10

google-colab10

retention10

analytics8

data-pipeline8

git7

zone2

visualization1

Programming languages (2)

ShellJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

theventurecity/data-toolkit

Jan 2019 - May 2020

Data Pipeline Toolkit for Early-Stage Startups

Contributions:68 commits, 108 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months

data-pipelinegrowth-accountinganalyticsstartup-metricsretention

dksmith01/dksmith01.github.io

Apr 2016 - Jul 2024

Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months

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