Summary
Jared Lorince is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience blending production software development and computational social science, currently focused on AI engineering and platform work at Databricks. His career bridges research and product—postdoctoral work at NICO and a PhD in Cognitive Science inform data-driven product decisions and large-scale analytics built previously at Narrative Science, StumbleUpon, and Hex. He has deep practical experience with Spark, recommendation systems, and behavioral modeling, having led the integration of topic modeling and rating prediction into production personalization pipelines. Jared’s work often centers on understanding human decision-making in online environments, a perspective that shapes scalable ML features and interpretable analyses. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on engineering, uniquely able to move ideas from research prototypes to deployed systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Cognitive Science, BA Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
PhD Cognitive Science Psychology, PhD Cognitive Science Psychology at Indiana University Bloomington
Spanish, English