Deren S
Machine Learning Operations Specialist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeren S is a Machine Learning Operations specialist and founder with nine years of experience building production-grade AI and cloud systems, currently focused on LLM deployment and orchestration at Slingshot Aerospace. He combines deep MLOps expertise—Databricks, MLflow, Anyscale Ray, Kubernetes, AWS multi-region inference—with a founder's mindset honed by creating and exiting an aviation navigation platform that partnered with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google. His background spans data engineering and cloud architecture at National Grid, hands-on SDE work at AWS, and real-time vision systems for robotics, giving him rare end-to-end fluency from data ingestion to distributed training and monitoring. Deren emphasizes reliability and scalability—implementing automated canary rollouts, 99.9%+ uptime strategies, and CI/CD with strong security and observability. He is completing an MBA while maintaining active involvement in the Boston AI community, reflecting both technical depth and strategic product instincts. A pragmatic innovator, he often blends agent-based AI systems and model interaction protocols (MCP/FastMCP) into operational workflows that drive measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor's degree, Computer Science - Data Science & Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science - Data Science & Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning at Boston University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (60)
sdk10
intel9
hardware9
payment-methods9
in-app-purchase9
computer-vision9
instagram8
script8
camera-api8
realsense7
image-capture7
video-capture6
avfoundation6
python6
selenium6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
derens99/aeroapi-python
May 2023 - Sep 2023
Python wrapper for the FlightAware's AeroAPI
Contributions:29 releases, 3 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 months
adsbaero-apiaeroapiflightawareflightaware-aeroapi-service
derens99/studentlinkedlist2
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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