Donald Lee-brown
Partner at Positive Sum
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Lee-brown is a partner and product-oriented research leader in New York with a decade of experience translating data science and astronomy training into customer-facing products and teams. After a PhD in physics, he transitioned from academic research to data science and product roles, rising through Insight Data Science to lead product and research at startups like MeetElise, Iggy, and now Positive Sum. He combines deep quantitative rigor with hands-on product management, shipping AI-driven features and building teams that bridge research and engineering. Notably, his background as an astronomer informs a data-first curiosity and comfort with complex, noisy datasets that many product leaders lack.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics Mathematics at Luther CollegeIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Github Skills (21)
python7
gpt6
openai6
ai6
spectra6
stellar5
llm5
geospatial2
machine-learning2
data-science2
bootstrap2
jinja22
science2
neural-network2
geographic1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dleebrown/ANNA
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 67 commits, 45 PRs in 8 months
pythonconvolutional-neural-networkconvolutionalparameterizeneural-network
dleebrown/Fishes2Riches
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
kagglepythonmachine-learningfish
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