Felipe Pérez
Senior Data Scientist
Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolFelipe Pérez is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience who combines deep mathematical training (PhD from the University of Bristol) with practical expertise building scalable, high-quality data software. He has progressed from academia and teaching roles in Chile and the UK to applied data science positions at Walmart Chile and Topsort, where he now leads advanced analytics efforts. Felipe is comfortable bridging theory and production—translating rigorous probabilistic and mathematical methods into reliable, maintainable code for real-world systems. Based in Burnsville, Minnesota, he brings an educator’s clarity to complex problems and a track record of mentoring and collaboration across international research and industry teams. An interesting facet of his profile is the continuity between his academic research and hands-on engineering: he repeatedly moves between developing mathematical models and implementing them end-to-end in production environments.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting scholar, Mathematics, Visiting scholar, Mathematics at University of HoustonMaster's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at University of Bristol
Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
felperez/machine-learning
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:105 commits, 101 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
felperez/pandera
May 2023 - Oct 2024
A light-weight, flexible, and expressive statistical data testing library
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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