James Dominic
Principal Data Scientist
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Dominic is a Principal Data Scientist based in Denver with nine years of experience specializing in NLP and LLM-driven solutions for developer onboarding and automated mentoring. He recently defended a Ph.D. studying how conversational signals in software teams reveal newcomer needs, and he operationalizes that research by fine-tuning and deploying models like BERT, GPT-3.5 and FLAN-T5 to generate context-aware mentor responses and RAG pipelines. At Clemson he built benchmark classifiers for unbalanced datasets and taught multiple software engineering courses, blending rigorous research with hands-on deployment. At Spectrum he has driven business-facing AI work—fine-tuning models for retention, leading labeling efforts, and integrating retrieval-augmented generation into production. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-practitioner who turns conversation analysis into practical AI mentors that scale onboarding in open-source and enterprise settings.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Clemson UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (12)
arcade8
camp8
spectrum7
makecode7
game-development5
networking4
editor4
microsoft4
jekyll3
machine-learning2
javascript2
css1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
domini4/ProfessorPlatypus
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
domini4/R2R-data-analysis
Jul 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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