Efraim Feinstein
Principal Data Scientist
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolEfraim Feinstein is a Principal Data Scientist with 15 years of experience, currently leading advanced analytics and ML initiatives at Intuit from Palo Alto. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard and postdoctoral research—with practical engineering skills in Python, Scala, Spark, and XML technologies to build production-ready data models and simulations. His background spans scientific instrument design, computer simulations, and applied machine learning, enabling him to translate complex physical systems into robust data-driven solutions. As lead developer of The Open Siddur Project he demonstrates sustained open-source leadership, shipping web-based archival tools that bridge scholarship and engineering. Colleagues rely on his ability to move ideas from prototype to scalable systems while maintaining a strong focus on standards and reproducible pipelines. He favors projects that sit at the intersection of science, software, and data infrastructure, pairing technical depth with long-term stewardship.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD Biophysics, PhD Biophysics at Harvard UniversityB.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Physics at McGill University
Github Skills (24)
multilingual10
xslt10
xquery10
xml-schema10
personalization10
application-server9
gwt9
xml9
xproc8
xml-database8
java8
exist-db8
server8
nosql7
xpath7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opensiddur/hebmorph-exist
Sep 2013 - Sep 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
opensiddur/opensiddur-client
Jul 2013 - Feb 2019
Contributions:766 commits, 3 PRs, 174 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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