Dorian Brown
Senior Data Engineer
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDorian Brown is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience fusing applied mathematics and machine learning into production-grade systems across media, retail, finance, and government. He has built low-latency recommendation and personalization services serving hundreds of RPS, led price-optimization initiatives for global retail brands, and operationalized models from prototype to on-call production. Comfortable across Python ML frameworks, CI/CD, Docker and Flask, he excels at removing integration bottlenecks so data products become part of the organisation rather than side projects. Dorian also brings hands-on mentorship and interim leadership experience, having coached junior data scientists and run teams through delivery cycles. An early contributor to tooling for data scientists, he’s refined converter tooling for the popular knowledge-repo project, showing his interest in improving how teams share and operationalize analyses.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc) Applied Mathematics at Leiden University
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (9)
rmarkdown10
python10
r10
data-science9
data-analysis9
knowledge-management9
knowledge-graph9
generics6
go6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/knowledge-repo
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
A next-generation curated knowledge sharing platform for data scientists and other technical professions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 16 PRs, 23 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dorian primarily worked on the `knowledge_repo/converters/rmd.py` file, modifying the R Markdown converter. Their contributions included adding functionality to integrate Plotly visualizations, removing unnecessary dependencies, and addressing code style issues. Furthermore, the user reverted some changes related to Plotly integration, then merged in subsequent changes, indicating a focus on refining the R Markdown conversion process.
scientistsnext-generationdata-analysisdatadata-science
dorianbrown/rank_bm25
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 32 commits in 3 years 1 month
rankingbm25pythoninformation-retrieval
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