Hunter Schafer
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Schafer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from an academic career as an associate teaching professor at the Paul G. Allen School to building production data and ML systems in industry. He designs and scales data-focused courses (notably launching CSE 163 and expanding it to 250+ students per quarter) and now builds data analysis and machine learning pipelines for large-scale ads and monetization at Meta. Comfortable across teaching large introductory programming classes and shipping production ML infrastructure, he blends pedagogy with practical engineering to make complex concepts usable in real-world systems. Based in Seattle, he brings deep Python/data science expertise and a track record of translating classroom curricula into industry-relevant tooling and pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (30)
intermediate10
data-programming10
data-science9
data-structures9
dub8
weechat8
python8
nim-lang8
linter8
jupyter-book6
textbook6
keyword-search6
jupyter-notebook5
java5
keyword5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hschafer/teaching-toolshed
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Library of useful class for writing scripts to manage classes.
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 57 commits in 1 year 6 months
pythonnim-langdubweechatteaching
animlbook/AnIML
Aug 2022 - May 2023
A book introducing machine learning to people with a wide array of backgrounds
Contributions:23 PRs, 86 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
introductoryintroductory-machine-learningmachine-learningpythontextbook
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