Devin Pleuler
Senior Director, Research & Development - Team Operations
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDevin Pleuler is a senior R&D and analytics leader with nine years of experience building data-driven team operations at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, currently leading the Sport Performance Lab. He progressed through analytics roles at Toronto FC to direct strategic research programs that blend sports science, machine learning, and operational decision-making. Devin contributes to practical open-source soccer analytics—adding visualization notebooks, pitch dominance analysis, and a CNN-based pass difficulty model—to bridge research and coaching needs. Based in Old Toronto, he also teaches AI in sport analytics at the University of Toronto, signaling a commitment to translating academic methods into real-world performance insights.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Computer Science, Undergraduate, Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (20)
data-visualizations10
python10
pandas10
machine-learning10
data-visualisation10
numpy10
neural-network10
data-visualization10
data-analysis10
tensorflow9
scikit8
scikit-learn8
html6
jquery-ui6
sql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
devinpleuler/analytics-handbook
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Getting started with soccer analytics
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:27 commits, 17 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Devin contributed a new notebook focused on data visualization, specifically creating passing networks from the 2018 Men's World Cup final data. They also worked on a notebook exploring pitch dominance, likely involving analysis of player positioning data. Additional work included the development of a neural network for pass difficulty prediction. This included the use of tensor representations and convolutional neural networks.
analyticspythonsoccersoccer-analytics
devinpleuler/research
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 day
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