Gerard S
Data Scientist
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolGerard S is a Data Scientist based in Auckland with a decade of experience turning data into actionable insight using Python, Java and C++. He has moved between startups and media, co-founding an AI company and shipping production ML at Praxa Sense before joining NZME, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and product-focused engineering. Gerard blends statistical rigor, visualization and hands-on engineering—often building end-to-end solutions from sensor/embedded systems work (Bluetooth location tracking) to large-scale media analytics. His academic background in computer science with a minor in neuroscience informs a curiosity-driven approach to modeling human-centric data. Ambitious and driven, he’s passionate about ML/AI and consistently seeks to bridge research ideas with practical, deployable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Neurosciences, Minor Neurosciences at Leiden UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English, German, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
cml10
serve10
openapi10
api10
data-science10
api-server10
intelligent10
desktop10
command-line10
python10
api-client10
windows10
rest-api10
machine-learning10
rest-client10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gerardsimons/pbr-visualizer
Jul 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
reactphysically-based-renderingrenderingdata-visualizationvisualization
CapAI/ship-sim-gym
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Simple top-down low-performance Open AI gym wrapper of a ship simulator with training scripts for Rllib and stable-baselines
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
stable-baselinesshipreinforcement-learningtrainingopen-ai-gym
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