James Budarz
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tala
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Budarz is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience applying ML to finance, fraud detection, and scientific instrumentation. He combines a PhD in Physical Chemistry with hands-on production ML at Tala and American Express, owning full model lifecycles from research-grade pipelines to deployable, monitored systems. His background includes leading cross-national research teams, automating experimental hardware and data pipelines, and producing high-impact scientific outputs such as the world’s first “Molecular Movie.” At American Express he built Explainable and Fair AI tooling to democratize modeling across the enterprise, and at Tala he drives credit and customer-experience modeling end-to-end. Colleagues rely on him as a thought partner who translates complex domain problems into reproducible, business-driving ML solutions. His unusual combo of deep experimental science, teaching/mentoring experience, and production ML pragmatism helps bridge research and product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry at Brown UniversityCertificate, Data Science, Certificate, Data Science at NYC Data Science AcademyBachelor of Arts (BA), French Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (BA), French Language and Literature at The University of Connecticut
English, French
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jimbudarz/american-pollution
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
An interactive Shiny App to visualize pollution measurements across the U.S.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
shiny-appvisualizeshinymeasurementspollution
conda-forge/mysqlclient-feedstock
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
A conda-smithy repository for mysqlclient.
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 9 months
condamysql-client
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