Ethan Brown
Principal Data Engineer
Zurich, Zurich, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Brown is a Principal Data Engineer with 15 years of experience building data-driven systems and leading teams across startups and large tech companies. He has moved between research and production roles—from postdoctoral work in computational physics at ETH Zürich to leadership positions at Twitch, AWS Interactive Video Service, and Doodle—bringing a scientist’s rigor to engineering and product problems. Known for blending AI, algorithms, and systems thinking, he designs scalable data platforms for video and interactive services and has co-founded a startup (Mindi) through Techstars. Based in Zurich, he pairs deep quantitative training (PhD in Computational Physics) with hands-on execution, often surfacing non-obvious insights from complex data to guide product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Physics, PhD Computational Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS BS Physics Math, BS BS Physics Math at University of Oklahoma
English, Spanish, German, Albanian
Stackoverflow
31reputation
2kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (140)
regression10
correlation10
deep-learning10
scientific-computing10
keyword-extraction10
integral10
entity10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
machine-learning10
hyperparameters10
nearest-neighbor-search10
python-development9
monte-carlo9
pip9
power-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bkclark/pimcpp
Jun 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:242 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
etano/ewb.io
Apr 2017 - Jan 2025
Home
Contributions:2 PRs, 81 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 10 months
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