Florian Verhein
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Verhein is a Senior Applied Scientist in Seattle with over a decade of experience building ML and data science solutions at Amazon and in finance, combining deep learning, causal inference and large-scale statistical engineering to improve product catalog quality. He leads and mentors teams that blend practical ML (including LLMs and extreme classification) with clever statistical tooling to estimate impact and detect bias across massively skewed, noisy datasets without relying on costly manual labels. A founding member of Amazon’s Machine Learning Office Hours and cofounder of internal experimentation leagues, he pairs technical leadership with stakeholder-facing consulting to move projects from prototype to production. Earlier roles building low-latency trading ML systems and custom big-data clusters reflect his hands-on systems and software engineering chops across Python, Scala, Spark and AWS. Unusually, his background also spans performance arts and dual doctoral work in data mining, giving him a creative, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichThe University of Sydney
English, German
Github Skills (52)
apache-spark10
spark10
python10
r10
pandas10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
large-scale10
scala10
stream10
scale10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arkig/spream
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes in 2 months
florianverhein/spark-ec2
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:63 pushes, 4 comments in 3 months
awsclusterec2spark
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