Gavin Hackeling
Fractional CTO at Control Group
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGavin Hackeling is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building data-driven products and leading engineering teams from concept to acquisition. He has founded and scaled two startups to successful exits, authored both editions of Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn, and holds an issued patent tied to productized ML. Gavin excels at turning early-stage ideas into PMF—at Conduit he led the team that achieved product-market fit, ACCA certification, and a ServiceTitan acquisition. His background spans data science and engineering roles at startups backed by top-tier investors like Founders Fund, GV, and First Round Capital, and he currently applies that blend of technical depth and product sense as Principal Engineer at Savant Bio. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a rare combination of published ML expertise and practical startup operational experience, often uniting research-quality models with production-grade engineering.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunications, Master of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunications at New York UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (116)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kevinmcalear/GADS12-NYC-Students
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:56 commits in 2 months
imclab/QuestionTypeClassifier
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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