Derek Damron
VP, AI at ParentSquare
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Damron is a VP of AI and seasoned data leader with 11+ years in the data ecosystem and over eight years managing data teams, including five years at Director level and above. He combines hands-on expertise across the full data stack—experimentation, infrastructure, governance, ML, and LLMs—with a strong track record of driving revenue and cost impact through cross-functional roadmaps. Derek has led initiatives that scaled products and ARR, improved model accuracy and message safety using Hugging Face and Sagemaker, and built production pipelines with tools like Fivetran, Databricks, and Spark. He pairs technical depth in Python, R, and SQL with a pragmatic product focus from work across SaaS, marketplaces, and advertising analytics. Based in San Francisco with a master’s in statistics, he’s as comfortable mentoring engineers as he is architecting forecasting and personalization systems that move business metrics.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics at University of Central Arkansas
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derek-damron/budgetr
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
Easy budgeting in R
Contributions:90 commits, 8 PRs, 70 pushes in 4 years 4 months
r-packagebudgetingrstats
derek-damron/derek-damron.github.io
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
My shameless website
Contributions:8 PRs, 98 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 11 months
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