Eamon Anderson
Senior Data Scientist
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEamon Anderson is a Senior Data Scientist in Washington, D.C., with eight years of experience translating complex experimental and customer data into actionable insights. He transitioned from a PhD in nuclear physics and hands-on neutron-physics research at NIST and Indiana University to lead data science teams at Afiniti and now Shopify, bringing rigorous experimental design and statistical problem-solving to product-scale problems. Eamon is skilled at modernizing analysis pipelines (notably converting legacy experiment scripts to Python), designing experiments to improve precision, and mentoring new researchers—capabilities he applies to building robust, production-ready models. Known for increasing throughput through pragmatic engineering (e.g., designing a 5x faster liquid helium pump), he combines deep quantitative intuition with practical implementation. He thrives at the intersection of research and product, turning ambiguous technical challenges into reproducible, measurable outcomes. Based in the U.S. capital, he blends academic rigor with industry impact across both scientific and commercial domains.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD August 2017, Nuclear Physics, PhD August 2017, Nuclear Physics at Indiana University Physics DepartmentB.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at Grinnell
Github Skills (28)
pandas-dataframe7
statistics7
jupyter-notebook7
big-data-analytics6
machine-learning6
exploratory-data-analysis6
python6
eda6
pandas6
data-quality6
jupyter6
data-analysis5
profiling5
data-profiling5
deep-learning5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eamander/Cat_Type_ID_Project
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 29 pushes, 17 branches in 3 months
desktop-applicationrapiddata-entrydesktop
eamander/Pinterest_scraper
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
pythonimage-scraperpinterestcrawlerscraper
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