Fred Stakem
Senior Lead Data Science Engineer
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolFred Stakem is a Senior Lead Data Science Engineer with 11+ years building production ML and distributed systems, currently leading data science engineering at DraftKings where he architected a millisecond-latency real-time pricing platform on Kubernetes using Python, Kafka, and Redis. He blends research-grade signal processing and machine learning expertise from his Georgia Tech background with hands-on software engineering across embedded devices, cloud, and edge IoT platforms. Fred has a track record of lifting teams toward software engineering best practices—introducing testing, documentation, code review, and agile processes—while refactoring legacy data libraries into extensible, well-documented tools. His career spans airline operations simulation, edge analytics, and complex event processing, reflecting a rare ability to translate operational domain knowledge into scalable software. Based in Marietta, GA, he is equally at home prototyping novel algorithms and shepherding them into resilient, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
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Github Skills (33)
opencl8
matrix-multiplication8
blas8
docker-image8
gitlab7
gpu7
cuda6
macos6
keybindings6
tmux6
organizer6
compiler-construction6
parsing6
docker6
puppet6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fstakem/garden_snake
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:57 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
fstakem/pyedj
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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