Elder Pinzon
Principal Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolElder Pinzon is a Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying physics-honed quantitative rigor to build and deliver large-scale, cloud-native ML solutions, particularly on GCP and Vertex AI. He has led and grown data teams end-to-end—setting OKRs, hiring, and partnering with product and engineering—to operationalize models that drive business decisions. His background includes academic research (PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics) with GPU-accelerated MCMC and Monte Carlo simulation expertise, which informs his practical approach to complex modeling and uncertainty reduction. At fintech and analytics startups he developed credit-rating and NLP/forecasting systems, and at Achievers he progressed from senior roles into principal leadership, balancing hands-on technical depth with stakeholder-facing translation for non-experts. Colleagues value his intrapreneurial mindset: he evangelizes data science functions while ensuring robust, production-ready delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaPhD, Experimental High Energy Physics, PhD, Experimental High Energy Physics at York University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
word-embeddings9
sequence-labeling9
streaming9
batch9
nlp8
forecast8
python8
simple-framework8
natural-language-processing8
sql8
java8
language-processing8
named-entity-recognition8
r8
beam8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elderpinzon/initial
Jul 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 9 months
initial
elderpinzon/elsa.yoga
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Hugo blog template.
Contributions:1 PR, 193 pushes in 2 years 1 month
blog-templatehugohugo-themehugo-blog
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